Research Institute

Arc Institute

An independent nonprofit research institute in Palo Alto pairing curiosity-driven biology with AI to understand and treat complex human disease.

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

34272

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

9122

Multimodal reasoning LLM for protein function prediction, fusing protein language model embeddings to emit interpretable GO-term reasoning traces.

ProteinLanguage model

dnaHNet

Arc Institute / Carnegie Mellon University / University of Toronto

Released February 11, 2026

2

Tokenizer-free genomic foundation model that adaptively chunks raw nucleotides, enabling zero-shot variant fitness and gene essentiality prediction.

DNA & Gene

STACK

Arc Institute / Stanford University

Released January 9, 2026

11142

Single-cell foundation model using tabular attention over context cells to predict responses to arbitrary perturbations without fine-tuning.

Single-cell

STATE

Arc Institute

Released June 27, 2025

116255622

Virtual cell transformer that predicts how cells respond to genetic, chemical, or signaling perturbations, generalizing to unseen cellular contexts.

Single-cell

CodonFM

NVIDIA / Arc Institute

Released April 25, 2025

4187

Codon-resolution language models trained on 130 million coding sequences from 20,000 species, learning codon rules for translation and mRNA stability.

RNA

Evo 2

Arc Institute

Released February 21, 2025

28818K4K

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

DNA & Gene

Evo

Arc Institute

Released November 15, 2024

2491.8K1.5K

Genomic foundation model with 7B parameters that models prokaryotic DNA, RNA, and protein at single-nucleotide resolution over a 131k-token context.

DNA & Gene