Research Institute

BGI Research

The core research institute of genomics group BGI, working across multi-omics technology, biological big data, agricultural genomics, and evolution.

Location: Shenzhen, China
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6 models(4 Single-cell, 3 DNA & Gene, 1 Protein, 1 Language model, 1 Spatial omics)

Models (6)

RepGene

BGI Research

Released June 15, 2026

19

Gene representation framework fusing DNA, transcript, protein, text, and single-cell embeddings into one latent space that survives missing views.

DNA & GeneProteinSingle-cell

OneGenome-Rice

Zhejiang Lab / BGI Research

Released April 21, 2026

731122

Genomic foundation model for rice, pretrained on 422 Oryza genomes with a 1 Mbp context window and a 1.25B-parameter mixture-of-experts transformer.

DNA & Gene

RegFormer

BGI Research

Released April 1, 2026

Single-cell foundation model combining regulatory network priors with a Mamba backbone for clustering, batch integration, and perturbation modeling.

Single-cell

OKR-CELL

BGI Research

Released January 9, 2026

Cross-modal single-cell foundation model that aligns gene-expression profiles with LLM-enriched cell descriptions in a shared embedding space.

Single-cellLanguage model

MicroGenomer

BGI Research

Released December 29, 2025

10

470M-parameter microbial genome foundation model trained on 234.5B base pairs for multi-scale genomic representation and trait prediction.

DNA & Gene

OmniCell

BGI Research

Released December 29, 2025

Transcriptomic foundation model pretrained on 67M single-cell and spatial profiles, modeling gene expression and inter-cellular dependencies.

Single-cellSpatial omics