All Competitors

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

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Biological Subjects

Showing 19 of 9 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

Evo

Arc Institute

A 7B parameter genomic foundation model using StripedHyena architecture to model prokaryotic DNA, RNA, and proteins at single-nucleotide resolution with 131k token context.

1.5K1958.1K
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Imaging

CryoSAM

Xu Lab

Training-free cryo-ET tomogram segmentation that adapts SAM and DINOv2 for 3D volumetric data, enabling full tomogram segmentation from a single user prompt.

1535
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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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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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Imaging

CellSAM

Van Valen Lab

Universal cell segmentation model adapting Meta's SAM for biology. Segments mammalian cells, yeast, and bacteria across diverse imaging modalities with human-level accuracy.

19312
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DNA & Gene

GPN

Song Lab

A DNA language model for unsupervised genome-wide variant effect prediction, trained on multispecies genomes via masked language modeling without functional annotation labels.

339
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Imaging

PLIP

Stanford University

CLIP-based vision-language foundation model for pathology, fine-tuned on 208,414 image-text pairs. Enables zero-shot tissue classification and image retrieval.

37773399.2K
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Imaging

BiomedCLIP

Microsoft Research

Multimodal biomedical foundation model trained on 15M PubMed Central figure-caption pairs via contrastive learning, achieving state-of-the-art zero-shot performance across imaging modalities.

868.7K
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