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336 models·11 categories·Latest: TARIO-2 (3d ago)

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TARIO-2

Noetik

Released June 1, 2026

Multimodal tumor foundation model trained on paired H&E histology and spatial transcriptomics to infer whole-transcriptome and tumor-microenvironment signal from routine H&E alone.

PathologySpatial omics

CryoProt

Hunan University +1 other

Released June 1, 2026

Protein pretraining framework that learns representations directly from cryo-EM density maps, transferring to flexibility, active-site, binding-affinity, and stability tasks.

ImagingProtein

TESSERA

Weill Cornell Medicine

Released June 1, 2026

Self-supervised foundation model that learns reusable representations of cancer genomes from somatic SNVs and copy-number alterations across 33 tumor types.

DNA & Gene

TxFM

Recursion Pharmaceuticals

Released May 31, 2026

A self-supervised masked autoencoder for RNA-seq count data, pretrained on 1.4M public samples to learn transferable transcriptomic representations without per-dataset re-training.

Single-cell

mRNAutilus

Atom Bioworks +3 others

Released May 31, 2026

A masked discrete-diffusion model over millions of full-length mRNAs, guided by Monte Carlo Tree Search for joint codon optimization and de novo UTR design.

RNA

AMix-2

Shanghai AI Laboratory +4 others

Released May 30, 2026

A protein-text foundation model embedding sequences and natural language in a shared token space, enabling protein understanding and de novo design from one checkpoint.

ProteinLanguage model
DNA & Gene

DNA & Gene

Genomic sequence modeling and gene expression analysis

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TESSERA

Weill Cornell Medicine

Released June 1, 2026

Self-supervised foundation model that learns reusable representations of cancer genomes from somatic SNVs and copy-number alterations across 33 tumor types.

DNA & Gene

A zebrafish DNA sequence-to-function model predicting cell-type-specific single-cell expression across 85 cell-type x developmental-timepoint combinations during embryogenesis.

DNA & GeneSingle-cell

OryzaG3

Hainan University

Released May 26, 2026

A 700M-parameter DNA language model pretrained on the rice pangenome, built as a reusable foundation model for crop genomics and molecular breeding.

DNA & Gene
RNA

RNA

RNA structure, function, and expression modeling

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mRNAutilus

Atom Bioworks +3 others

Released May 31, 2026

A masked discrete-diffusion model over millions of full-length mRNAs, guided by Monte Carlo Tree Search for joint codon optimization and de novo UTR design.

RNA

Albatross

Harvard Medical School

Released May 20, 2026

An RNA language model trained by self-supervised masked-nucleotide prediction on ~50,000 IRES sequences that predicts secondary-structure features rivaling experimental chemical probing.

RNA

ProtmRNA

Fudan University +2 others

Released May 20, 2026

A cross-modal transfer-learning model that adapts the ESM-2 650M protein language model to mRNA analysis by swapping amino-acid tokens for codon tokens, applied to mRNA benchmarks without re-training.

RNA
Protein

Protein

Protein sequence and structure prediction

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CryoProt

Hunan University +1 other

Released June 1, 2026

Protein pretraining framework that learns representations directly from cryo-EM density maps, transferring to flexibility, active-site, binding-affinity, and stability tasks.

ImagingProtein

AMix-2

Shanghai AI Laboratory +4 others

Released May 30, 2026

A protein-text foundation model embedding sequences and natural language in a shared token space, enabling protein understanding and de novo design from one checkpoint.

ProteinLanguage model

ESMC

Biohub

Released May 27, 2026

164.6K2.6K

Biohub's 2026 protein language model trained on ~2.8 billion sequences, forming the representation core of its world model of protein biology.

Protein
Small molecule

Small molecule

Molecular representation, generation, and property prediction

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FLASH

Hunter College, CUNY

Released May 11, 2026

A signed heterogeneous graph foundation model pretrained on the SIGMA-KG knowledge graph for zero-shot drug mode-of-action, clinical response, and drug-drug interaction prediction.

Small molecule

CoMole

University of Notre Dame

Released May 1, 2026

A motif-aware graph diffusion transformer for controllable molecular generation that transfers to unseen properties by learning only lightweight task embeddings with the generator frozen.

Small molecule

TerraBind

Terray Therapeutics

Released February 12, 2026

Protein-ligand foundation model that maps coarse-grained structural representations directly to binding affinity, running ~26x faster than Boltz-2.

ProteinSmall molecule
Single-cell

Single-cell

Single-cell transcriptomics and genomics

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TxFM

Recursion Pharmaceuticals

Released May 31, 2026

A self-supervised masked autoencoder for RNA-seq count data, pretrained on 1.4M public samples to learn transferable transcriptomic representations without per-dataset re-training.

Single-cell

A zebrafish DNA sequence-to-function model predicting cell-type-specific single-cell expression across 85 cell-type x developmental-timepoint combinations during embryogenesis.

DNA & GeneSingle-cell

FlowTransOP

MIT +2 others

Released May 27, 2026

A constrained deep flow-matching framework for distributional translation of omics signatures across biological domains, such as mouse-to-human transcriptomics, without paired samples.

Single-cell
Spatial omics

Spatial omics

Spatially-resolved omics and tissue microenvironment modeling

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TARIO-2

Noetik

Released June 1, 2026

Multimodal tumor foundation model trained on paired H&E histology and spatial transcriptomics to infer whole-transcriptome and tumor-microenvironment signal from routine H&E alone.

PathologySpatial omics

STMDiT

ETH Zurich +1 other

Released May 29, 2026

A diffusion transformer that synthesizes H&E histopathology image patches conditioned jointly on spatial transcriptomics gene expression and morphological embeddings.

PathologySpatial omics

TMEformer

Sichuan University

Released May 20, 2026

A spatial-transcriptomics foundation model for the tumor microenvironment that produces TME-aware embeddings and enables in silico perturbation from a fixed pretrained checkpoint.

Spatial omics
Pathology

Pathology

Histology and tissue imaging analysis

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TARIO-2

Noetik

Released June 1, 2026

Multimodal tumor foundation model trained on paired H&E histology and spatial transcriptomics to infer whole-transcriptome and tumor-microenvironment signal from routine H&E alone.

PathologySpatial omics

STMDiT

ETH Zurich +1 other

Released May 29, 2026

A diffusion transformer that synthesizes H&E histopathology image patches conditioned jointly on spatial transcriptomics gene expression and morphological embeddings.

PathologySpatial omics

GenBloom

Helmholtz Munich +1 other

Released May 28, 2026

Genetically aligned foundation model for blood smear cytology that links single white-blood-cell morphology to chromosomal aberrations and mutations for AML/APL diagnosis.

Pathology
Imaging

Imaging

Microscopy, fluorescence imaging, and cryo-EM analysis

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CryoProt

Hunan University +1 other

Released June 1, 2026

Protein pretraining framework that learns representations directly from cryo-EM density maps, transferring to flexibility, active-site, binding-affinity, and stability tasks.

ImagingProtein

PIGMENT

Tsinghua University

Released May 29, 2026

A physics-informed generative foundation model for quantitative diffusion MRI that maps brain microstructure (tensor, kurtosis, NODDI) and adapts zero-shot to each participant's data.

Imaging

A domain-specific foundation model for zero-shot plant root image segmentation, built on a MobileSAM backbone and trained across nine diverse root datasets.

Imaging
Metabolomics

Metabolomics

Metabolite profiles from NMR and mass spectrometry

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A self-supervised metabolomic foundation model pretrained on NMR metabolite profiles from 430,000+ UK Biobank participants, applied without backbone retraining to aging, subtyping, and risk tasks.

Metabolomics
Biosignals

Biosignals

Continuous physiological and wearable sensor time-series

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GlucoFM

Google Research +1 other

Released May 29, 2026

A dual-stream self-supervised foundation model for continuous glucose monitoring data, separating slow physiological state from transient glucose events.

Biosignals
Language model

Language model

Bio/scientific language and generative models

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AMix-2

Shanghai AI Laboratory +4 others

Released May 30, 2026

A protein-text foundation model embedding sequences and natural language in a shared token space, enabling protein understanding and de novo design from one checkpoint.

ProteinLanguage model

Bio-BLIP

Stanford University

Released May 15, 2026

A multimodal Q-former that fuses DNA sequence, gene context, protein function, and text into a prefix for a frozen LLM, enabling zero-shot genetic variant interpretation.

DNA & GeneLanguage model

A unified bio-language Mixture-of-Experts foundation model spanning DNA, protein sequence and structure, and biological text, applied across eight task families from a single checkpoint.

Language modelDNA & GeneProtein

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Who Builds Biological AI

The organizations behind the most-cited foundation models.

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Top Organizations

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Google DeepMind
53K citations6 models54.9K stars
Meta AI
5.5K citations4 models15K stars
HHMI Janelia Research Campus
4.9K citations4 models8.9K stars
Institute for Protein Design
3.3K citations6 models6.7K stars
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
2.4K citations17 models2.2K stars
Mahmood Lab
1.4K citations1 model738 stars
Microsoft Research
1.3K citations8 models4.8K stars
Rostlab
1.3K citations2 models1.6K stars

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