All Competitors

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

Showing 118 of 18 filtered models

  • CREP

    University of OxfordJune 7, 2026cis_regulatory_element_annotationdnaregulatory_genomics+4

    Fine-tuned Enformer derivative that predicts discrete, interpretable cis-regulatory element class annotations (enhancer, promoter, insulator) directly from DNA sequence across human cell types.

    DNA & Gene
    8Openness
  • C3P

    University of TorontoMay 24, 2026bacterial_genomeco_regulated_gene_retrievalcontrastive_learning+8

    Contrastive promoter-protein pretraining that aligns bacterial promoters with their encoded proteins to learn regulatory genomics representations.

    DNA & Gene
    77Openness
  • Cold Spring Harbor LaboratoryApril 1, 2026de_novo_designdiffusiongene_expression+5

    Generative discrete-diffusion model that designs regulatory DNA with tunable activity and learns activity-predictive representations rivaling genomic language models.

    DNA & Gene
    49Openness
  • evoRate

    University of TorontoFebruary 2, 2026genomicsmolecular_evolutionregulatory_genomics+4

    A genome language model that adds evolutionary-rate prediction as a pretraining task, improving representations and variant effect prediction over sequence-only training.

    DNA & Gene
    14Openness
  • AlphaGenome

    1.9K102
    Google DeepMindJune 27, 2025chromatinfoundation_modelgene_expression+4

    Google DeepMind model that predicts thousands of functional genomic tracks at single base-pair resolution from megabase-scale DNA sequences. Open-sourced with public API access in January 2026.

    DNA & Gene
    49Openness
  • Borzoi

    245232
    Calico Life SciencesJanuary 9, 2025cnngene_expressionregulatory_genomics+5

    Deep learning model predicting cell-type-specific RNA-seq coverage at 32 bp resolution from 524 kb of DNA sequence, jointly modeling transcription, splicing, and polyadenylation.

    DNA & Gene
    92Openness
  • GeneCompass

    118125
    Chinese Academy of SciencesOctober 8, 2024cross_speciesfoundation_modelregulatory_genomics+1

    Knowledge-informed cross-species foundation model pre-trained on 101M human and mouse single-cell transcriptomes to decipher universal gene regulatory mechanisms.

    Single-cell
    32Openness
  • Puffin

    10449
    UT Southwestern Medical CenterApril 26, 2024chromatincnngene_expression+3

    Explainable sequence model for transcription initiation that identifies the minimal set of sequence rules governing human promoter activity at base-pair resolution.

    DNA & Gene
    23Openness
  • gLM

    8991
    Harvard University +1 otherApril 3, 2024foundation_modelgenomicsmetagenomics+2

    Genomic language model trained on metagenomic scaffolds that learns protein co-regulation and function by modeling gene context and operon structure.

    DNA & Gene
    30Openness
  • EpiGePT

    3311
    Tsinghua UniversityJuly 18, 2023chromatinepigenomicsfoundation_model+2

    Transformer model predicting context-specific epigenomic signals across cell types using DNA sequence and transcription factor activity profiles.

    DNA & Gene
    65Openness
  • Technical University of MunichJanuary 27, 2023bertdnafoundation_model+6

    DNA language model trained on over 800 species spanning 500 million years of evolution to capture conserved regulatory elements and their evolution beyond sequence alignment.

    DNA & Gene
    76Openness
  • Technical University of MunichJanuary 27, 2023cross_speciesfoundation_modelregulatory_genomics

    Masked DNA language model trained on 800+ species spanning 500M years of evolution, using explicit species conditioning to capture conserved regulatory elements.

    DNA & Gene
    92Openness
  • GeneBERT

    27
    Carnegie Mellon UniversityOctober 11, 2021bertchromatinfoundation_model+6

    Multi-modal self-supervised model pre-trained on regulatory genome sequences and transcription factor binding matrices for cell-type-specific regulatory prediction.

    DNA & Gene
    18Openness
  • Enformer

    15K1.2K
    Google DeepMindOctober 4, 2021dnafoundation_modelgene_expression+2

    Transformer model that predicts gene expression and regulatory activity from 200kb DNA sequences, capturing enhancer-promoter interactions up to 100kb away.

    DNA & Gene
    84Openness
  • Basenji2

    473215
    Calico Life SciencesAugust 6, 2020chromatincnngene_expression+5

    Updated Basenji architecture enabling cross-species regulatory sequence activity prediction, trained jointly on human and mouse genomes with improved generalization.

    DNA & Gene
    79Openness
  • Big Bird

    6342.8K319K
    Google ResearchJuly 28, 2020dnafoundation_modelgenomics+4

    Sparse attention transformer extending BERT to sequences up to 8x longer via random, local, and global attention patterns, with demonstrated applications in genomic sequence modeling.

    DNA & Gene
    49Openness
  • Basenji

    473496
    Calico Life SciencesMay 1, 2018chromatincnngene_expression+4

    Deep convolutional neural network that predicts cell-type-specific epigenetic and transcriptional profiles from DNA sequence across large mammalian genomes.

    DNA & Gene
    73Openness
  • Basset

    267942
    Harvard UniversityJuly 1, 2016chromatincnngenomics+3

    Deep convolutional neural network that learns the regulatory code of DNA accessibility from DNase-seq data across 164 cell types, enabling variant effect prediction at cis-regulatory elements.

    DNA & Gene
    80Openness