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Leaderboard

The state of biological AI at a glance. Explore which models are driving the most academic impact, developer adoption, and how the field has evolved across 158 models.

Size vs. Impact

How model scale relates to academic citations (log-log). Showing 49 models with both metrics.

DNA & Gene
RNA
Protein
Single-cell
Multimodalities
Pathology
Imaging

Arena Scoreboard

The top 10 models by academic citations and developer stars

Most Cited

Academic impact by citation count

#ModelOrganizationCitations
1
AlphaFold 2
Google DeepMind34.9K
2
AlphaFold 3
Google DeepMind10.1K
3
ESM-2 & ESMFold
Meta AI4.3K
4
Cellpose
HHMI Janelia Research Campus3.2K
5
ProteinMPNN
Institute for Protein Design1.6K
6
UNI
Mahmood Lab1.3K
7
ProtTrans
Rostlab1.3K
8
Enformer
Google DeepMind1.1K
9
UniRep
Church Lab1K
10
Cellpose 2.0
HHMI Janelia Research Campus988

Most Starred

Developer adoption by GitHub stars

#ModelOrganizationStars
1
Enformer
Google DeepMind14.9K
2
AlphaFold 2
Google DeepMind14.5K
3
AlphaFold 3
Google DeepMind7.9K
4
ESM-1b
Meta AI4K
5
ESM-1v
Meta AI4K
6
ESM-2 & ESMFold
Meta AI4K
7
Boltz-1
MIT3.9K
8
Boltz-2
MIT CSAIL / Recursion Pharmaceuticals3.9K
9
Evo 2
Arc Institute3.8K
10
OpenFold
Aqlaboratory3.3K

Field Timeline

How model scale has grown over time. Bubble size reflects citation count where available. Showing 59 models.

Category Breakdown

Model count by biological domain, with average citations per model

Protein avg. 1K cit.Single-cell avg. 173 cit.DNA & Gene avg. 147 cit.Imaging avg. 324 cit.RNA avg. 73 cit.Multimodalities avg. 36 cit.Pathology avg. 454 cit.

Top Organizations

By total citation count

Google DeepMind
46.1K citations4 models39.2K stars
Meta AI
5.1K citations4 models14.9K stars
HHMI Janelia Research Campus
4.6K citations4 models8.7K stars
Institute for Protein Design
2.8K citations5 models6.3K stars
Mahmood Lab
1.3K citations1 model717 stars
Rostlab
1.3K citations1 model1.3K stars
Stanford University
1.2K citations4 models865 stars
Church Lab
1K citations1 model362 stars
Bowang Lab
951 citations2 models1.7K stars
Broad Institute / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
897 citations1 model
Microsoft Research
895 citations5 models1.5K stars
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
889 citations1 model574 stars
Mahmood Lab / Brigham and Women's Hospital
840 citations1 model491 stars
Baker Lab
810 citations1 model802 stars
University of Bayreuth
787 citations1 model