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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.
Computer Network Information Center, CAS / University of Oxford / Tongji University / Hunan University / University of Cambridge
Released August 2, 2026
Single-cell foundation model adding a gated cell-level contrastive objective to masked expression pretraining for transferable frozen cell embeddings.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Hunan University / Institute of Materia Medica, CAMS & PUMC / Xiamen University / Shanghai AI Laboratory
Released June 18, 2026
NMR foundation model trained on 158 million simulated 1H and 13C spectra, transferring simulation-learned representations to real experimental data.
Protein representation learning from cryo-EM density maps, transferring to flexibility, active-site, binding-affinity, and stability tasks.
Vision-language DNA model that renders genomic sequence as visual layouts, reading regions up to 450,000 bases with about 20x better token efficiency.
Protein binder design model post-trained from a multimodal protein language model to bind proteins, peptides, small molecules, and nucleic acids.
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.
Retrosynthesis and reaction prediction LLM that jointly learns molecular fragmentation and recombination from a 4.4M-instruction chemistry corpus.
ByteDance Seed / Hunan University / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Released April 17, 2025
All-atom generative model for protein complexes that designs multi-chain binders from scratch and performs multimer folding and inverse folding.
Genomic language model for scRNA-seq cell-type annotation, reweighting rare classes so diseased cell types are not swamped by common ones.
Universal ultrasound segmentation foundation model adapting the Segment Anything Model to eight anatomical regions in a single promptable network.
DNA- and RNA-binding residue prediction from a nucleic-acid-adapted protein language model and an equivariant graph network over protein structure.
Hunan University / Central South University / Hunan Clinical Medical Research Center for Cancer Pathogenic Genes Testing and Diagnosis / Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Released November 22, 2024
Lung cancer histopathology model that predicts spread through air spaces from whole-slide images using a feature-interactive Siamese graph encoder.
Westlake University / University of Southern California / Hunan University / National University of Singapore
Released October 22, 2024
De novo peptide sequencing model that retrieves a similar peptide-spectrum match from a database and fuses it into transformer decoding.
Yonsei University / Hunan University / China University of Petroleum (East China) / Yunnan Normal University / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / University of Tsukuba / Lanzhou University
Released October 10, 2023
Conditional GAN that generates small molecules against a protein-protein interaction interface, encoding the complex with graph attention networks.