All Competitors

Every biological foundation model, evaluated and ranked by the bio.rodeo team

Showing 124 of 102 filtered models

  • Cellpin

    Technical University of MunichJune 5, 2026denoisinggene_imputationsingle_cell+4

    A VAE trained on scRNA-seq reference data and applied frozen at inference to impute unmeasured genes and denoise spatial transcriptomics profiles.

    Spatial omicsSingle-cell
    22Openness
  • miDGD

    Aarhus UniversityJune 2, 2026autoencoderdeep_generative_decodergene_expression+6

    A deep generative decoder that infers microRNA expression directly from bulk or single-cell mRNA gene expression via a shared mRNA/miRNA latent space.

    RNASingle-cell
    8Openness
  • TxFM

    2
    Recursion PharmaceuticalsMay 31, 2026autoencoderfoundation_modelgene_expression+4

    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
    12Openness
  • DanioDecima

    Chan Zuckerberg BiohubMay 29, 2026cnnde_novo_designdna+7

    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
    22Openness
  • Chreode

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill +2 othersMay 27, 2026cell_fate_predictioncrispr_perturbationdevelopmental_trajectory_modeling+8

    A cell world model pretrained on a 2.4M-cell mouse embryonic atlas that predicts one-step transcriptional state transitions and transfers to perturbation prediction.

    Single-cell
    26Openness
  • FlowTransOP

    MIT +2 othersMay 27, 2026autoencodercross_domain_translationcross_species+7

    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
    87Openness
  • GEARS

    University of Central Florida +2 othersMay 27, 2026cell_localizationdiffusion_modeldomain_adaptation+8

    Geometry-first generative framework that reconstructs single-cell spatial coordinates by integrating scRNA-seq with spatial transcriptomics, without cell-type labels.

    Single-cell
    22Openness
  • RegVelo

    1538
    Helmholtz MunichMay 11, 2026cell_fate_mappingchromatingene_regulatory_network_inference+6

    Bayesian deep generative model that integrates gene regulatory networks into RNA velocity inference, enabling cell fate mapping and in silico perturbation of transcription factors.

    Single-cell
    59Openness
  • ConvergeCELL

    59
    Converge BioMay 7, 2026bulk_rna_seqcontrastive_learningdrug_discovery+5

    A virtual cell foundation model pretrained on 23M+ cells from 5,000 patient samples for drug target and biomarker discovery.

    Single-cell
    67Openness
  • DoFormer

    Columbia University +1 otherMay 4, 2026causal_inferencefoundation_modelgene_expression+3

    A causal multimodal Transformer that embeds the do-operator within attention to predict single-cell responses to gene perturbations, including unseen ones.

    Single-cell
    8Openness
  • scPert

    Zhejiang University School of MedicineApril 28, 2026drug_discoveryfoundation_modelgene_expression+4

    A multi-modal Transformer that fuses LLM gene embeddings with biological knowledge graphs to predict single-cell transcriptomic responses to genetic perturbations.

    Single-cell
    14Openness
  • HyperMap

    University of California San Diego +1 otherApril 27, 2026crisprdrug_discoveryfew_shot+7

    Meta-learning framework that transfers perturbation responses across cell lines, donors, and drugs from a few seed perturbations, using one-eighth the parameters of typical single-cell foundation models.

    Single-cell
    11Openness
  • CellPulse

    Wuhan Institute of VirologyApril 24, 2026drug_discoveryfoundation_modelgene_expression+5

    A direction-aware foundation model trained on ~23M bulk RNA-seq differential-expression profiles that simulates coordinated gene dynamics in viral infection.

    Single-cellLanguage model
    4Openness
  • RVQ-Alpha

    Guangzhou National LaboratoryApril 23, 2026cell_type_annotationlanguage_modelmultimodal+5

    A Qwen3-4B language model that reads and reasons over single cells by tokenizing scRNA-seq with residual vector quantization and training with verifiable reinforcement learning.

    Single-cell
    4Openness
  • RNABag

    HomiGen Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd.April 22, 2026cancer_detectioncell_type_annotationfoundation_model+6

    A transcriptome foundation model for precision oncology that generalizes zero-shot across tissue, plasma cfRNA, and tumor-educated platelet biopsy modalities.

    Single-cell
    46Openness
  • xVERSE

    Duke UniversityApril 14, 2026batch_effect_correctionfoundation_modelgenerative+5

    A transcriptomics-native single-cell foundation model that couples batch-invariant representation learning with probabilistic virtual-cell generation.

    Single-cell
    10Openness
  • RegFormer

    8
    Chinese Academy of SciencesApril 1, 2026batch_integrationcell_clusteringdrug_response_prediction+7

    GRN-informed single-cell foundation model combining gene regulatory hierarchy priors with long-sequence Mamba modeling for clustering, batch integration, perturbation modeling, and drug response prediction.

    Single-cell
    10Openness
  • scLong

    21
    Chinese Academy of SciencesApril 1, 2026batch_integrationcancer_drug_responsecell_type_annotation+7

    Billion-parameter single-cell foundation model performing full self-attention across all 28,000 human genes, integrating Gene Ontology priors via GCN for long-range gene context capture in transcriptomics.

    Single-cell
    29Openness
  • CLOP-DiT

    Third Military Medical UniversityMarch 30, 2026contrastive_learningdata_augmentationdiffusion+7

    Generates single-cell transcriptomic profiles from structured biological metadata via contrastive language-omics pretraining and a diffusion transformer.

    Single-cell
    10Openness
  • DAMO AcademyMarch 26, 2026diffusionfoundation_modelgene_expression+4

    A generative cellular world model that uses masked discrete diffusion to learn whole-transcriptome scRNA-seq distributions and simulate perturbation responses across tissues and species.

    Single-cell
    21Openness
  • RNAGAN

    1
    The University of Hong KongMarch 20, 2026cancercell_type_annotationdata_generation+5

    Multipurpose generative adversarial network trained once on single-cell and bulk RNA-seq to perform stratification, marker analysis, data generation, and vectorization.

    Single-cell
    60Openness
  • SCALE

    Shanghai AI LaboratoryMarch 17, 2026flow_matchingfoundation_modelgenerative+4

    Virtual cell foundation model pairing LLaMA-based cellular encoding with set-aware conditional flow matching to predict single-cell perturbation responses at atlas scale.

    Single-cell
    19Openness
  • X-Cell

    954
    Xaira TherapeuticsMarch 17, 2026crispr_perturbationdiffusionfoundation_model+5

    4.9 billion parameter diffusion language model for predicting genome-wide genetic perturbation responses, trained on the largest CRISPRi Perturb-seq dataset built to date.

    Single-cell
    20Openness
  • MIT +1 otherMarch 16, 2026cancer_microenvironment_analysisfoundation_modelhistopathology+8

    Lightweight multimodal foundation model integrating spatial transcriptomics and H&E histopathology with pathway activity scores for biologically grounded spatial niche discovery at single-cell resolution.

    Spatial omicsSingle-cell
    71Openness