All Competitors

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

Showing 124 of 101 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
  • MethylSeqNet

    University of California, Berkeley +1 otherJune 7, 2026chromatin_accessibility_predictiondna_methylationepigenetics+6

    Conditions a pretrained DNA sequence embedding on CpG methylation to predict gene regulation across cell types and alleles, generalizing zero-shot to imprinting, X-inactivation, and accessibility.

    DNA & Gene
    18Openness
  • ReCLIP

    University of Chicago +2 othersJune 4, 2026multi_taskpeptide_mhc_binding_predictionprotein_protein_interaction_prediction+5

    Transformer framework that models protein-protein interactions at residue resolution, generalizing zero-shot to unseen MHC alleles and sequence-neutral PTMs from one fixed checkpoint.

    Protein
    22Openness
  • LDARNet

    1
    Independent ResearcherJune 3, 2026dnafoundation_modelgene_expression+6

    A 120M-parameter genomic foundation model that learns adaptive DNA token boundaries via H-Net-style dynamic chunking instead of fixed k-mer or byte-pair tokenization.

    DNA & Gene
    26Openness
  • TESSERA

    5
    Weill Cornell MedicineJune 1, 2026cancer_genomicscell_type_annotationcontrastive_learning+6

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

    DNA & Gene
    28Openness
  • 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
  • ESMC

    2.7K648.8K
    BiohubMay 27, 2026foundation_modelmasked_language_modelingprotein_design+6

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

    Protein
    55Openness
  • D2D

    Vrije Universiteit Brussel +1 otherMay 22, 2026binding_region_predictionepistasisintrinsically_disordered_regions+5

    Combines the ProtT5-XL protein language model with protein-specific evolutionary constraints to predict mutational effects on stability, binding, and epistasis—largely zero-shot.

    Protein
    29Openness
  • Genos-m

    20177
    BGI-HangzhouAIMay 21, 2026foundation_modelgene_fitness_predictionmetagenomics+7

    A 4.7B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts genomic foundation model pretrained on ~1.2 trillion nucleotide tokens from human-associated microbial genomes.

    DNA & Gene
    73Openness
  • ProtmRNA

    2
    Fudan University +2 othersMay 20, 2026codongene_expressionlanguage_model+7

    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
    11Openness
  • University of FloridaMay 18, 2026bertbilstmcnn+11

    Multimodal deep-learning framework that detects and localizes DNA lesions directly from native nanopore sequencing, built on the damage-aware LesionBERT foundation model.

    DNA & Gene
    45Openness
  • PLM-SAE

    Shanghai Smart Logic Technology Co., Ltd.May 15, 2026autoencoderproteomicsrepresentation_learning+3

    A mechanistic-interpretability framework that trains sparse autoencoders on protein language model embeddings to extract interpretable features for zero-shot variant effect prediction.

    Protein
    22Openness
  • Bio-BLIP

    Stanford UniversityMay 15, 2026foundation_modelgenomicsmendelian_disease+7

    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
    23Openness
  • ENSEMBITS

    7
    Vanderbilt UniversityMay 13, 2026function_predictionmolecular_dynamicsprotein_dynamics+5

    A residual VQ-VAE tokenizer that learns a discrete alphabet of protein conformational ensembles from molecular dynamics data, usable as a frozen representation layer for downstream tasks.

    Protein
    66Openness
  • OmniGene-4

    Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyMay 12, 2026dnafoundation_modelinstruction_following+7

    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
    7Openness
  • Wisteria

    Inner Mongolia UniversityMay 7, 2026cnndnafoundation_model+6

    A pretrained DNA language model combining Mamba state-space layers, gated dilated convolutions, and Fourier-based attention to capture multi-scale genomic regulatory patterns.

    DNA & Gene
    10Openness
  • ProtSent

    6
    Hebrew University of Jerusalem +1 otherMay 7, 2026contrastive_learningembeddingsproteomics+5

    Contrastively fine-tuned ESM-2 (35M and 150M) protein language models that produce general-purpose sequence embeddings where biological similarity maps to embedding proximity.

    Protein
    87Openness
  • University of KentuckyMay 4, 2026contrastive_learningintrinsic_disorder_predictionmolecular_dynamics+6

    A protein language model that aligns ESM sequence embeddings with molecular-dynamics trajectory embeddings via contrastive learning for zero-shot mutation-effect prediction.

    Protein
    10Openness
  • Carbon

    1937.4K
    Hugging Face +2 othersMay 1, 2026dnafoundation_modelgenerative+3

    An open autoregressive genomic foundation model (0.5B–8B params) with a 6-mer DNA tokenizer, matching Evo2-7B win rates at far higher throughput.

    DNA & Gene
    93Openness
  • MIMIC

    30
    Polymathic AIApril 27, 2026foundation_modelgenerativegenomics+6

    Generative multimodal foundation model that jointly models DNA, RNA, protein, and cellular context across six biological modalities, with SOTA splicing prediction.

    RNAProteinDNA & Gene
    16Openness
  • 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
  • Mach-1

    4
    Broad InstituteApril 21, 2026foundation_modelisoform_abundance_predictionpre_mrna+8

    Long-context (64 kb) RNA foundation model using the Striped-Hyena architecture for zero-shot prediction of transcriptome architecture from unspliced pre-mRNA sequence.

    RNA
    39Openness
  • Deep-Plant

    1
    Colorado State University +1 otherApril 9, 2026chromatincnnenhancer_prediction+6

    A supervised, chromatin-informed foundation model that predicts regulatory activity directly from plant genomic sequence in Arabidopsis and rice.

    DNA & Gene
    87Openness
  • GenoJEPA

    Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsApril 6, 2026foundation_modelgenomicsrepresentation_learning+4

    A genomic foundation model that learns DNA representations through joint-embedding prediction in latent space rather than nucleotide reconstruction.

    DNA & Gene
    22Openness