All Competitors

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

Applications

Architectures

Learning Paradigms

Biological Subjects

Showing 117 of 17 filtered models

Single-cell

TranscriptFormer

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

A generative cross-species foundation model for single-cell transcriptomics, trained on 112 million cells from 12 species spanning 1.5 billion years of evolution.

10826
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DNA & Gene

Borzoi

Calico Life Sciences

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.

236207
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Protein

ESM Cambrian

EvolutionaryScale

A family of protein language models (300M, 600M, 6B parameters) for representation learning that substantially outperforms ESM-2 at equivalent or smaller scale.

2.3K9.4K
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RNA

RhoFold+

ml4bio

End-to-end RNA 3D structure prediction combining the RNA-FM language model with Invariant Point Attention, achieving SOTA on RNA-Puzzles and CASP15.

227186
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Single-cell

scPRINT

Institut Pasteur

Single-cell foundation model pre-trained on 50 million cells for gene network inference, denoising, and cell type prediction.

14637
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Single-cell

CellFM

Sun Yat-sen University

An 800M-parameter single-cell foundation model pre-trained on 100 million human cells via a RetNet architecture for cell annotation, perturbation prediction, and gene analysis.

10453
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Imaging

CellSeg3D

Mathis Lab

Self-supervised 3D cell segmentation for fluorescence microscopy using WNet3D and Swin-UNetR, achieving supervised-level performance without annotated training data.

119
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Single-cell

Nicheformer

Helmholtz Munich / Technical University of Munich

Transformer foundation model pretrained on 110M single-cell and spatially resolved transcriptomics profiles, enabling spatial context prediction for dissociated cells.

161961.6K
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Imaging

CONCH

Mahmood Lab / Brigham and Women's Hospital

Vision-language foundation model for computational pathology, pretrained on 1.17M histopathology image-caption pairs with contrastive and captioning objectives.

491841145.3K
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RNA

RNAformer

University of Freiburg

Axial-attention transformer for RNA secondary structure prediction from single sequences, without MSAs. Achieves state-of-the-art accuracy via homology-aware training.

423
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Protein

xTrimoPGLM

BioMap / Tsinghua University

Unified 100-billion-parameter protein language model combining autoencoding and autoregressive objectives for protein understanding and generation.

2139
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Single-cell

UCE

Stanford University

Zero-shot foundation model for single-cell gene expression that generates species-agnostic cell embeddings using protein language model representations of gene products.

253138
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RNA

trRosettaRNA

Yang Lab

Deep learning pipeline for RNA 3D structure prediction using a transformer (RNAformer) to predict inter-nucleotide geometries, refined by Rosetta energy minimization.

23171
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Imaging

CellViT

Institute for AI in Medicine

Vision Transformer for cell instance segmentation and classification in H&E digital pathology, extended by CellViT++ with foundation model backbones and few-shot adaptation.

37326
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RNA

MRM-BERT

Nanjing University of Science and Technology

A hybrid deep learning model predicting 12 types of RNA modifications by fine-tuning DNABERT representations fused with CNN-encoded sequence features.

15
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Multimodalities

scMoFormer

Michigan State University

Transformer framework for single-cell multi-omics that predicts cross-modality relationships using heterogeneous graphs of cells, genes, and proteins.

2716
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Protein

ProtTrans

Rostlab

A suite of six protein language models — including ProtBERT and ProtT5 — trained on up to 393 billion amino acids using large-scale HPC infrastructure.

1.3K1.3K
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