A public research university in Hong Kong, pairing professional education with interdisciplinary research in engineering, computing, and health.
City University of Hong Kong / The University of Hong Kong / Stanford University
Released August 31, 2026
Pocket-conditioned 3D ligand generator that steers flow matching with LLM-written chemical priors, for de novo design and scaffold hopping.
Fragment-protein interaction model trained on cellular chemoproteomics, pairing ESM-2 residue embeddings with bilinear attention over ligand atoms.
Single-cell perturbation model that generates a transcriptome gene by gene, letting a regulatory-network policy choose which genes come first.
Zhejiang University / Hangzhou City University / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / City University of Hong Kong / Iowa State University
Released June 26, 2026
Cis-regulatory network reconstruction from DNA sequence, epigenomic tracks, and Hi-C priors, constrained by gene expression. 0.84 zero-shot auROC.
Shanghai AI Laboratory / Tsinghua University / Fudan University / City University of Hong Kong / Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Released May 30, 2026
Protein-text foundation model placing amino acid sequences and natural language in one token space for protein understanding and de novo design.
Shandong University / Peking University / Fudan University / City University of Hong Kong
Released September 27, 2025
Cross-species RBP-RNA binding site predictor that turns RNA-binding protein conservation into label smoothing, reaching 0.85 AUC from human to mouse.
The University of Hong Kong / City University of Hong Kong / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, CAS / BayVax Biotech Limited
Released August 27, 2025
Antibody-antigen binding free energy predictor fusing ESM-2 sequence embeddings with persistent homology and interface geometry via cross-attention.
Blind protein-ligand docking model adding Ollivier-Ricci curvature descriptors and degree-aware message passing, predicting poses in 0.09 seconds.
Protein-DNA binding free energy change prediction for missense mutations, with double- and single-stranded DNA binders modeled separately.
Shanghai AI Laboratory / Tsinghua University / Fudan University / Tianjin University / Georgia Institute of Technology / Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / City University of Hong Kong
Released July 11, 2025
Protein foundation model built on Bayesian Flow Networks, prompted with MSA profiles for structure- and function-preserving sequence design.
University of Oxford / City University of Hong Kong / Imperial College London / Uppsala University / GSK / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Released July 1, 2025
Multimodal foundation model for cardiac biosignals, pretrained by masked modeling on ECG, PPG, and clinical text from ~1.7 million individuals.
Conditional GAN generating HLA class I pseudo-sequences from a peptide, then resolving them to candidate alleles by nearest-neighbor lookup.
Allele-free HLA class I epitope classification from peptide sequence alone, via LoRA-adapted ESM-2 with parallel CNN and Transformer branches.
Plasmid characterization and retrieval model aligning DNA sequences with property text across ten facets, from antimicrobial resistance to host range.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) / South China Normal University / City University of Hong Kong / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Released April 12, 2025
Multimodal 3D genome foundation model pairing Hi-C contact maps with epigenomic tracks, pretrained on over one million paired samples.
Nanjing Agricultural University / Nanjing University of Science and Technology / City University of Hong Kong / Nanjing Forestry University / Yangzhou University
Released April 1, 2025
Protein function prediction fusing five Gene Ontology pipelines, two of them deep models over protein and DNA language model embeddings.
Epitope prediction model scoring whether a peptide is presented by HLA class I or II, with no allele input needed. Built on ESM-2 embeddings.
City University of Hong Kong / Lanzhou University / Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Xi'an Jiaotong University
Released December 25, 2024
Phosphorylation site prediction from protein sequence. A LoRA-adapted ESM-2 encoder feeds a conformer, reaching 79.5% AUC at serine sites.
Shenzhen University / City University of Hong Kong / University of Nottingham Ningbo China / Stanford University / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Released December 3, 2024
Whole-slide pathology assistant that states the morphological findings behind each diagnosis, trained on 180k VQA pairs from 9,850 gigapixel slides.
Baidu / City University of Hong Kong / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Nottingham Trent University / Silesian University of Technology
Released May 13, 2024
RNA language model pretrained on 23 million non-coding sequences with motif-level masking, then steered by predicted RNA type at fine-tuning.
Alibaba Cloud / Sun Yat-sen University / University of Sydney / Fudan University / Zhejiang University / Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences / Peking Union Medical College / City University of Hong Kong
Released May 10, 2024
Unified DNA, RNA, and protein foundation model with 1.8B parameters, pretrained across 169,861 species to learn the central dogma from sequence.
City University of Hong Kong / Johns Hopkins University / NVIDIA
Released October 1, 2023
Abdominal CT segmentation model driven by CLIP text embeddings, covering 25 organs and 6 tumor types with zero-shot extension to new categories.
University of New South Wales / GreenDynamics / City University of Hong Kong / University of Sydney
Released August 1, 2023
Open large language models for natural science, fine-tuned on physics, chemistry, and materials science literature with automated instruction tuning.