The GenAP project was initially funded by grants from CANARIE and Génome Québec from 2013 to 2018 and included three major components:

• The development of robust bioinformatics pipelines (called the MUGQIC pipelines);
• The adaptation of the Cern Virtual Machine File System (CVMFS) to facilitate code and reference files distribution on Compute Canada infrastructures;
• The development of a web portal to facilitate data analysis and sharing through tools with graphical interfaces integrated on Compute Canada infrastructure (including Galaxy, Datahub and UCSC Genome Browser mirror).

The pipelines were used for thousands of compute jobs during this period, using CVMFS for the distribution of their code and reference files throughout all Compute Canada infrastructures. The portal was accessed by >200 active users, >150 Datahubs were created (>25 TB of data shared) and >10k jobs were run through Galaxy.

The GenAP project was then funded by a second round of grants from CFI, Genome Canada and CANARIE (2017-23). The pipelines were renamed GenPipes and are now directly supported by the Canadian Center for Computational Genomics (C3G), while CVMFS was adopted and integrated into the Compute Canada core services. The portal was completely redesigned to enhance security and facilitate the link with the new Compute Canada cloud infrastructures, with a focus on the integration of metabolomics and single-cell analyses.