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TEDlm

University College London

Released July 13, 2026

Protein language model pretrained on structural domain segments, encoding fold and contact signals for remote-homology detection from sequence alone.

Protein
20Openness

m6A RNA modification site prediction across the transcriptome, using a CNN-Transformer hybrid to surface unannotated N6-methyladenosine sites.

RNA
82Openness

Variable-length generative protein design across structure, sequence, motif scaffolding, and peptide co-design via a generalized Poisson flow.

Protein
18Openness

Vilya-1

Vilya

Released July 10, 2026

All-atom foundation model for macrocyclic peptide structure prediction, permeability estimation, and de novo design across non-canonical chemistries.

ProteinSmall molecule
5Openness

LEAF-1

McGill University +1 other

Released July 10, 2026

Genomics foundation model that represents individual DNA fragments in a learned semantic space for cell-free DNA cancer detection and cell typing.

DNA & GeneSingle-cell
4Openness

Generative language model that designs drug-like SMILES conditioned on disease ontology and a target protein sequence for de novo drug discovery.

Small moleculeProtein
51Openness
DNA & Gene

DNA & Gene

Genomic sequence modeling and gene expression analysis

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vir2vec

University of Florida

Released December 12, 2025

2283963

Pan-viral genomic language model producing fixed genome-level embeddings of viral DNA and RNA, reused across classification tasks without retraining.

DNA & Gene
53Openness

Carbon

Hugging Face +2 others

Released May 1, 2026

8.9K199

Autoregressive DNA foundation model for variant effect prediction, using 6-mer tokenization to match Evo2-7B win rates at far higher throughput.

DNA & Gene
93Openness

eRNAformer

Nanchang University

Released June 27, 2026

2

Enhancer RNA mapping model that locates eRNA loci genome-wide from DNA sequence and aggregated RNA-seq signal using a CNN-transformer architecture.

DNA & GeneRNA
95Openness
RNA

RNA

RNA structure, function, and expression modeling

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36510

Hybrid framework that predicts ribosome location profiles from mRNA sequence alone, pairing a structure-aware TASEP simulation with a Mamba polisher.

RNA
18Openness

RNA foundation model pretrained jointly on sequences and secondary structures for structure prediction, homology and splice site classification.

RNA
92Openness

gRNAde

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology +1 other

Released December 1, 2025

8517309

RNA inverse-folding model that generates sequences predicted to fold into a target 3D backbone, capturing non-canonical pairs and tertiary motifs.

RNA
98Openness
Protein

Protein

Protein sequence and structure prediction

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PRISM

Carnegie Mellon University +2 others

Released October 13, 2025

1.9K

Retrieval-augmented inverse folding model that fuses structural motif retrieval with a hybrid attention decoder to design sequences for a backbone.

Protein
20Openness

ESMC

Biohub

Released May 27, 2026

82.1M2.9K

Protein language model trained on roughly 2.8 billion sequences, forming the representation core of Biohub's world model of protein biology.

Protein
63Openness

Aiki-XP

Aikium

Released April 23, 2026

Leakage-controlled multimodal model predicting within-species relative protein expression across 385 bacterial species, with transfer to unseen phyla.

Protein
96Openness
Small molecule

Small molecule

Molecular representation, generation, and property prediction

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MultiPUFFIN

NTNU +2 others

Released March 1, 2026

975

Multimodal foundation model pretrained on ~500K unlabeled PubChem molecules that jointly predicts nine thermophysical properties of small molecules.

Small molecule
10Openness
897.3K

Small-molecule drug discovery foundation model covering ADMET, retrosynthesis, drug-target activity, and molecular optimization in a 2.6B checkpoint.

Small moleculeLanguage model
7Openness

FLOWR.root

Pfizer +3 others

Released October 2, 2025

3135

SE(3)-equivariant flow-matching model for pocket-aware 3D ligand generation, predicting binding affinity and confidence in the same network.

Small moleculeProtein
87Openness
Single-cell

Single-cell

Single-cell transcriptomics and genomics

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DoFormer

Columbia University +2 others

Released May 4, 2026

168

Causal multimodal transformer that embeds the do-operator in attention to predict single-cell gene expression under unseen genetic perturbations.

Single-cell
8Openness

Scooby

Technical University of Munich +4 others

Released October 1, 2025

748969

Predicts single-cell scRNA-seq coverage and scATAC-seq insertion profiles from DNA sequence, adapting the Borzoi trunk with a cell-specific decoder.

Single-cell
70Openness

Tahoe-x1

Tahoe Therapeutics

Released October 23, 2025

434158

Perturbation-trained single-cell foundation models (up to 3B parameters) that jointly model genes, cells, and compounds for precision oncology tasks.

Single-cellSmall molecule
95Openness
Spatial omics

Spatial omics

Spatially-resolved omics and tissue microenvironment modeling

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2115

Spatial transcriptomics language model that reads tissue as spatial sentences to simulate cell profiles and run in silico perturbations.

Spatial omicsSingle-cell
53Openness

SpatialFusion

MIT +1 other

Released March 16, 2026

40

Multimodal foundation model integrating spatial transcriptomics, H&E histopathology, and pathway scores for single-cell niche discovery.

Spatial omicsSingle-cellPathology
71Openness
Pathology

Pathology

Histology and tissue imaging analysis

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MuPD

Stanford University

Released April 4, 2026

279

Diffusion-transformer pathology model embedding H&E histology, RNA profiles, and clinical text in a latent space for zero-shot cross-modal synthesis.

PathologySpatial omics
15Openness

GenBio-PathFM

genbio.ai

Released March 20, 2026

251136

Histopathology foundation model with 1.1B parameters, trained entirely on public data using JEDI, a dual-stage strategy combining JEPA and DINO.

Pathology
21Openness

GPFM

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology +3 others

Released November 1, 2025

89128

Histopathology foundation model extracting general-purpose features from H&E patches by distilling the UNI, Phikon, and CONCH pathology encoders.

Pathology
84Openness
Imaging

Imaging

Microscopy, fluorescence imaging, and cryo-EM analysis

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SpatialDINO

Harvard Medical School

Released December 31, 2025

192

Native 3D vision transformer self-supervised on unlabeled fluorescence microscopy volumes, segmenting subcellular structures without voxel labels.

Imaging
8Openness

Merlin

Stanford University

Released January 1, 2026

517.3K451

3D vision-language foundation model for abdominal CT, pretrained on scans, radiology reports, and EHR codes for zero-shot interpretation.

ImagingLanguage model
54Openness

BioCLIP 2.5

Imageomics Institute

Released February 10, 2026

425K77

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.

Imaging
93Openness
Metabolomics

Metabolomics

Metabolite profiles from NMR and mass spectrometry

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LLM4MS

Nanjing University

Released November 4, 2025

7

Repurposes a pretrained large language model into an encoder for MS/MS spectra, embedding them for compound identification by spectral library search.

MetabolomicsSmall molecule
3Openness

MetaboliteChat

New York University

Released November 10, 2025

4

Multimodal conversational LLM for metabolite analysis, fusing a molecular-graph GNN and molecular-image CNN with a Vicuna-13B language backbone.

MetabolomicsSmall molecule
48Openness
Biosignals

Biosignals

Continuous physiological and wearable sensor time-series

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NeurIPT

Xiamen University Malaysia +4 others

Released October 18, 2025

9711

EEG foundation model for brain-computer interfaces, pairing masked pretraining with a mixture-of-experts transformer across electrode montages.

Biosignals
11Openness

LUNA

ETH Zurich

Released October 25, 2025

5.8K127

EEG foundation model whose learned queries map any electrode montage into a fixed latent space, scaling linearly in the number of channels.

Biosignals
73Openness

CortexMAE

Sophont +1 other

Released October 15, 2025

210552

fMRI foundation model trained on cortical flat-map videos with masked autoencoding, showing power-law scaling on brain activity reconstruction.

Biosignals
68Openness
Language model

Language model

Bio/scientific language and generative models

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rBio

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Released August 18, 2025

66144

Reasoning language model post-trained on virtual cell simulations, answering questions about gene perturbations and their effects in natural language.

Language model
60Openness

NetMedGPT

University of Hamburg +1 other

Released January 4, 2026

11

Transformer foundation model pretrained on a biomedical knowledge graph for zero-shot drug repurposing, target, and adverse-effect prediction.

Language modelSmall molecule
24Openness

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Academic impact by citation count

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Most Parameters

Model size by parameter count

#ModelParameters
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Most Open

Top models by bio.rodeo openness score (usability + reproducibility, license-aware).

#ModelUseReproOverall
1
Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence
100
100
100
2
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
99
100
100
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Chan Zuckerberg Biohub / Mehta Lab
100
95
98
4
IOCB Prague / MIT
100
92
98
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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology / University of Cambridge
100
92
98

Top Organizations

By total citation count

Google DeepMind
56K citations6 models55.5K stars
Meta AI
7K citations5 models15.5K stars
HHMI Janelia Research Campus
5.2K citations4 models9.1K stars
Mahmood Lab / Brigham and Women's Hospital
3.7K citations3 models738 stars
Institute for Protein Design
3.4K citations6 models6.9K stars

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