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Protein language model pretrained on structural domain segments, encoding fold and contact signals for remote-homology detection from sequence alone.
m6A RNA modification site prediction across the transcriptome, using a CNN-Transformer hybrid to surface unannotated N6-methyladenosine sites.
Variable-length generative protein design across structure, sequence, motif scaffolding, and peptide co-design via a generalized Poisson flow.
All-atom foundation model for macrocyclic peptide structure prediction, permeability estimation, and de novo design across non-canonical chemistries.
Genomics foundation model that represents individual DNA fragments in a learned semantic space for cell-free DNA cancer detection and cell typing.
Generative language model that designs drug-like SMILES conditioned on disease ontology and a target protein sequence for de novo drug discovery.
DNA & Gene
Genomic sequence modeling and gene expression analysis
Pan-viral genomic language model producing fixed genome-level embeddings of viral DNA and RNA, reused across classification tasks without retraining.
Autoregressive DNA foundation model for variant effect prediction, using 6-mer tokenization to match Evo2-7B win rates at far higher throughput.
Enhancer RNA mapping model that locates eRNA loci genome-wide from DNA sequence and aggregated RNA-seq signal using a CNN-transformer architecture.
RNA
RNA structure, function, and expression modeling
Hybrid framework that predicts ribosome location profiles from mRNA sequence alone, pairing a structure-aware TASEP simulation with a Mamba polisher.
RNA foundation model pretrained jointly on sequences and secondary structures for structure prediction, homology and splice site classification.
RNA inverse-folding model that generates sequences predicted to fold into a target 3D backbone, capturing non-canonical pairs and tertiary motifs.
Protein
Protein sequence and structure prediction
Retrieval-augmented inverse folding model that fuses structural motif retrieval with a hybrid attention decoder to design sequences for a backbone.
Protein language model trained on roughly 2.8 billion sequences, forming the representation core of Biohub's world model of protein biology.
Small molecule
Molecular representation, generation, and property prediction
Multimodal foundation model pretrained on ~500K unlabeled PubChem molecules that jointly predicts nine thermophysical properties of small molecules.
Small-molecule drug discovery foundation model covering ADMET, retrosynthesis, drug-target activity, and molecular optimization in a 2.6B checkpoint.
SE(3)-equivariant flow-matching model for pocket-aware 3D ligand generation, predicting binding affinity and confidence in the same network.
Single-cell
Single-cell transcriptomics and genomics
Causal multimodal transformer that embeds the do-operator in attention to predict single-cell gene expression under unseen genetic perturbations.
Predicts single-cell scRNA-seq coverage and scATAC-seq insertion profiles from DNA sequence, adapting the Borzoi trunk with a cell-specific decoder.
Perturbation-trained single-cell foundation models (up to 3B parameters) that jointly model genes, cells, and compounds for precision oncology tasks.
Spatial omics
Spatially-resolved omics and tissue microenvironment modeling
Spatial transcriptomics language model that reads tissue as spatial sentences to simulate cell profiles and run in silico perturbations.
Multimodal foundation model integrating spatial transcriptomics, H&E histopathology, and pathway scores for single-cell niche discovery.
Pathology
Histology and tissue imaging analysis
Diffusion-transformer pathology model embedding H&E histology, RNA profiles, and clinical text in a latent space for zero-shot cross-modal synthesis.
Histopathology foundation model with 1.1B parameters, trained entirely on public data using JEDI, a dual-stage strategy combining JEPA and DINO.
Histopathology foundation model extracting general-purpose features from H&E patches by distilling the UNI, Phikon, and CONCH pathology encoders.
Imaging
Microscopy, fluorescence imaging, and cryo-EM analysis
Native 3D vision transformer self-supervised on unlabeled fluorescence microscopy volumes, segmenting subcellular structures without voxel labels.
3D vision-language foundation model for abdominal CT, pretrained on scans, radiology reports, and EHR codes for zero-shot interpretation.
Vision foundation model for the tree of life, scaling BioCLIP 2 to a ViT-H/14 backbone and more organism images for zero-shot species classification.
Metabolomics
Metabolite profiles from NMR and mass spectrometry
Repurposes a pretrained large language model into an encoder for MS/MS spectra, embedding them for compound identification by spectral library search.
Multimodal conversational LLM for metabolite analysis, fusing a molecular-graph GNN and molecular-image CNN with a Vicuna-13B language backbone.
Biosignals
Continuous physiological and wearable sensor time-series
EEG foundation model for brain-computer interfaces, pairing masked pretraining with a mixture-of-experts transformer across electrode montages.
EEG foundation model whose learned queries map any electrode montage into a fixed latent space, scaling linearly in the number of channels.
Language model
Bio/scientific language and generative models
Reasoning language model post-trained on virtual cell simulations, answering questions about gene perturbations and their effects in natural language.
Transformer foundation model pretrained on a biomedical knowledge graph for zero-shot drug repurposing, target, and adverse-effect prediction.
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Most Cited
Academic impact by citation count
| # | Model | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 37.5K | |
| 2 | 12.3K | |
| 3 | 5K | |
| 4 | 3.6K | |
| 5 | 3.2K |
Most Parameters
Model size by parameter count
| # | Model | Parameters |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 120B | |
| 2 | 102B | |
| 3 | 100B | |
| 4 | 98B | |
| 5 | 80B |
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