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A cross-disciplinary research university in Nansha, Guangzhou, organized into thematic hubs and thrusts rather than conventional departments.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) / Jilin University / University of Auckland / Shanghai AI Laboratory / Hunan University / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Released August 13, 2026
Infrared spectroscopy foundation model pretrained on 60 million simulated spectra, then adapted to real FTIR measurements of molecules and mixtures.
West China Hospital of Sichuan University / Sichuan University / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) / Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital / Southwest Medical University / Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital
Released August 4, 2026
Breast-specialized multimodal pathology foundation model for core needle biopsy diagnosis, with conformal risk control gating report release.
Protein function annotation model predicting Gene Ontology terms with direct preference optimization layered on a frozen ESM-C sequence encoder.
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.
Microsoft Research AI for Science / Peking University / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) / Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications / Huazhong University of Science and Technology / Tsinghua University / Microsoft Research Asia
Released March 9, 2025
Generative foundation model that co-generates sequence and 3D coordinates for proteins, small molecules, and crystals under functional objectives.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Shenzhen Bay Laboratory
Released March 2, 2025
Structure-based 3D molecule generation that denoises a ligand at atom level and motif level at once, conditioned on the target protein's pocket.
Alibaba Cloud / Beijing Zhongguancun Academy / Zhongguancun Institute of Artificial Intelligence / University of Science and Technology of China / Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Mila / Université de Montréal / HEC Montréal / Carnegie Mellon University
Released February 11, 2025
Long-context generative genomic foundation model with a 98k-nucleotide window, trained on 386 billion bases of eukaryotic DNA for sequence design.
Protein cleavage site prediction that generalizes to proteolytic enzymes unseen in training by encoding active-site chemistry alongside sequence.
DNA foundation model encoding the genome as probabilistic allele frequencies from the 1000 Genomes Project. 86M parameters, single-nucleotide tokens.
Zhejiang University / Alibaba Cloud / University of Science and Technology of China / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Released December 28, 2024
Protein-text foundation model aligning sequences with function descriptions through segment-wise objectives for static and dynamic functional sites.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) / McGill University
Released December 24, 2024
Chromatin loop caller for Hi-C, Micro-C, DNA SPRITE, and single-cell contact maps, pairing axial attention with a U-Net to work at very low coverage.
Baidu / Beihang University / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) / North Carolina State University / Nottingham Trent University / Silesian University of Technology / South China University of Technology
Released November 3, 2024
Chemical language model for molecular property prediction, pretrained on PubChem SMILES by masking whole functional groups rather than random tokens.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) / Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Released October 12, 2024
Multimodal protein model pairing a sequence encoder with a Gene Ontology branch, trained in recursive cycles that clean their own noisy labels.