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OpenBind Consortium / Aqlaboratory / Columbia University / OpenFold Consortium / Diamond Light Source / University of Oxford
Released August 21, 2026
Protein-ligand co-folding model on the OpenFold3 architecture, trained on PDB structures through June 2025 with inference-time chemical steering.
Chongqing Medical University / University of Toronto / Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute / Columbia University / MD Anderson Cancer Center / Georgia Institute of Technology
Released August 20, 2026
Binary protein classification over frozen ESM3 embeddings, using transformer contextualization and learned attention pooling instead of fixed pooling.
Spatial multi-omics integration model aligning RNA, protein, metabolomics, and histology to map cell-state gradients and cell-cell interactions.
Causal multimodal transformer that embeds the do-operator in attention to predict single-cell gene expression under unseen genetic perturbations.
Columbia University / Clue by BioWink / New York Genome Center / Basque Center for Applied Mathematics / Ikerbasque / University of British Columbia / Indiana University
Released April 28, 2026
Generative model for self-tracked menstrual health data, encoding cycles and symptom logs as token sequences for synthetic cohorts and forecasting.
Transformer that infers whole-genome DNA methylation from gene expression, generalizing zero-shot to unmeasured CpG sites and unseen samples.
Xiamen University Malaysia / Columbia University / The Hong Kong Polytechnic University / Xiamen University / Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)
Released October 18, 2025
EEG foundation model for brain-computer interfaces, pairing masked pretraining with a mixture-of-experts transformer across electrode montages.
Neuro-oncology foundation model for brain tumor MRI, using distributionally robust pretraining for molecular subtyping and survival prediction.
Columbia University / Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics / NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Released September 3, 2025
EHR foundation model for structured OMOP timelines that unifies patient embeddings, zero-shot outcome prediction and synthetic record generation.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative / Columbia University / Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
Released July 9, 2025
Single-cell transcriptomics foundation model that encodes gene regulatory network structure into self-attention through graph signal processing.
TCR-pMHC specificity prediction that folds frozen ESM-2 and AlphaFold2 representations into a three-body peptide-MHC-CDR3 energy tensor.
Columbia University / University of Cambridge / Harvard University / New Mexico Consortium
Released February 21, 2025
Refines AlphaFold2 predictions against cryo-EM, cryo-ET, and X-ray data by optimizing coevolutionary embeddings rather than atomic coordinates.
Sparse autoencoders on the ESM-2 residual stream that expose interpretable protein features, with an open visualizer for what each latent detects.
Single-cell ATAC-seq foundation model that builds cell representations from non-zero chromatin peaks via peak-to-gene alignment.
Cryo-EM heterogeneous reconstruction that models particles as one of K neural fields, resolving compositional and conformational states ab initio.
Stony Brook University / Harvard Medical School / Stanford University / Columbia University
Released November 22, 2024
Histopathology foundation model aligned to spatial transcriptomics by a cross-modal ranking loss, embedding H&E patches without gene input.
Light-weight rigid protein-ligand docking model adapting the AlphaFold2 architecture, with a binding affinity module for virtual screening.
Protein language model trained from scratch on MD and normal-mode dynamics, representing residue fluctuation and co-movement from sequence.
Zero-shot mutation effect scoring for designed and viral proteins, mapping frozen ESM2 representations onto MD and normal-mode dynamic properties.
JURA Bio, Inc. / Harvard Medical School / Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering / Columbia University / New York University / Technical University of Denmark
Released September 19, 2024
Manufacturing-aware generative sequence models whose parameters are DNA synthesis reaction conditions, so designs are made in vitro at petascale.
Princeton University / Stanford University / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory / Columbia University / CUNY Advanced Science Research Center / New York Structural Biology Center
Released June 2, 2024
Neural ab initio reconstruction for cryo-EM and cryo-ET that jointly infers particle poses and a continuous landscape of conformational states.
Columbia University / Washington University in St. Louis / NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital / Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics / New York Genome Center
Released February 6, 2024
EHR foundation model that writes patient histories as token sequences carrying explicit visit and day-interval tokens, invertible back to OMOP tables.
Enable Medicine / Stanford University / Columbia University / University of Pittsburgh / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / CellSight Technologies
Released May 19, 2023
Spatial proteomics imputation from a 7-plex immunofluorescence panel, generating in silico CODEX expression for 33 more biomarkers per cell.
MIT CSAIL / Columbia University / CNRS / University of Cambridge / University of Oxford
Released February 5, 2023
De novo protein backbone generation by SE(3) diffusion over rigid-body frames. Samples designable monomers up to 500 residues without pretraining.
BERT adaptation for structured OMOP electronic health records that inserts artificial time tokens between visits so intervals shape the embeddings.