Research Institute

Arc Institute

Independent research institute focused on fundamental biology

Location: Palo Alto, CA
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8 models(3 DNA & Gene, 2 Protein, 2 Single-cell, 1 Language model, 1 RNA)

Models (8)

Germinal

Stanford University / Arc Institute

Released April 15, 2026

28214

Generative pipeline for epitope-targeted de novo antibody (nanobody) CDR design that yields nanomolar binders from only dozens of designs per antigen.

Protein

BioReason-Pro

Arc Institute / UCSF / University of Toronto / Vector Institute

Released March 20, 2026

4115

A multimodal reasoning LLM that fuses protein-language-model embeddings with biological context to generate interpretable reasoning traces for protein function and GO-term annotation.

ProteinLanguage model

dnaHNet

Arc Institute / Carnegie Mellon University / University of Toronto

Released February 11, 2026

1

A tokenizer-free, hierarchical autoregressive genomic foundation model that adaptively chunks raw nucleotides, enabling efficient long-context learning and zero-shot variant and gene predictions.

DNA & Gene

STACK

Arc Institute / Stanford University

Released January 9, 2026

8136

Single-cell foundation model using tabular attention over context cells to enable zero-shot representation and in-context prediction of arbitrary perturbations.

Single-cell

STATE

Arc Institute

Released June 27, 2025

97124593

Transformer model for predicting cellular responses to perturbations across diverse cell contexts, trained on over 267 million human single-cell profiles.

Single-cell

CodonFM

NVIDIA / Arc Institute

Released April 25, 2025

3979

A family of codon-resolution language models trained on 130 million coding sequences from 20,000 species, revealing context-dependent codon grammar governing translation and mRNA stability.

RNA

Evo 2

Arc Institute

Released February 21, 2025

2605223.9K

Genomic foundation model trained on 9.3 trillion DNA base pairs spanning all domains of life, with 40B parameters and a 1-million-token context window.

DNA & Gene

Evo

Arc Institute

Released November 15, 2024

2191.1K1.5K

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

DNA & Gene