A national laboratory in Guangzhou for respiratory and infectious disease, pairing basic research with clinical practice for pandemic prevention.
Guangzhou National Laboratory / Westlake University / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Guangzhou Medical University
Released August 11, 2026
Virtual-cell model that compresses a transcriptome into eight discrete tokens in a reasoning LLM's vocabulary, predicting module-level drug response.
Single-cell foundation model that tokenizes scRNA-seq into 10 tokens in a Qwen3-4B vocabulary for cell type annotation and perturbation prediction.
Multimodal generative model predicting viral antigenic change zero-shot from disentangled evolutionary, physicochemical, and structural signals.
Cross-species-pretrained CNN that predicts single-CpG DNA methylation from genomic sequence and interprets the cis-regulatory motifs that govern it.
Shenzhen Bay Laboratory / Peking University / China Mobile Research Institute / Huawei / ShanghaiTech University / Guangzhou National Laboratory
Released August 10, 2025
RNA language model transfer-trained from ESM-2 via a pseudo-protein alphabet mapping, outperforming 12 RNA language models in zero-shot evaluation.
Guangzhou Medical University / Guangzhou National Laboratory / Hunan University / Zhengzhou University / Central South University / Southern Medical University
Released July 8, 2025
Multimodal single-cell foundation model pretrained on 4M+ co-assayed cells, predicting 382 surface proteins from transcriptomes alone, zero-shot.
Shenzhen Bay Laboratory / Guangzhou National Laboratory / ShanghaiTech University / Tongji University
Released June 4, 2025
RNA-protein contact prediction from sequence, built on ERNIE-RNA and ESM-2 embeddings. Reaches 0.77 auROC where AlphaFold 3 reaches 0.61.
Single-cell DNA methylation foundation model capturing genome-wide CpG dependencies in whole-genome bisulfite sequencing across tissues and species.
DAMO Academy / Hupan Lab / Westlake University / Guangzhou National Laboratory / Guangzhou Medical University / Harvard Medical School
Released December 22, 2024
Multiomic foundation model for zero-shot in silico perturbation, predicting gene regulation and cell fate transitions from DNA and ATAC signal.
Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS / Pengcheng Laboratory / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Tsinghua University / Macau University of Science and Technology / Wenzhou Medical University / Nanchang University / Chinese Medicine Guangdong Laboratory / Guangzhou National Laboratory / Capital Medical University / Shenzhen University / Macao Polytechnic University
Released January 4, 2024
Vision-language model for annotation-free pathology localization, marking the finding a text prompt names in X-ray, histology and fundus images.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Shanghai AI Laboratory / East China University of Science and Technology / ShanghaiTech University / Guangzhou National Laboratory / University of Science and Technology of China / Hangzhou Institute of Medicine, CAS / SenseTime / Shanghai Academy of Experimental Medicine / Hzymes Biotechnology
Released July 24, 2023
Protein language model ranking stabilizing mutations with no assay data, trained jointly to predict the growth temperature of each sequence's host.