Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences

The Chinese Academy of Sciences neuroscience institute in Shanghai, core of its brain science center, spanning molecular, systems, and cognitive work.

Location: Shanghai, China

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2 models(1 DNA & Gene, 1 Single-cell, 1 Spatial omics)

Models (2)

CENO

Shanghai AI Laboratory / Fudan University / University of Sydney / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / University of Southern California / Shanghai Innovation Institute / University of Electronic Science and Technology of China / Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Nanjing Normal University / Westlake University / Shenzhen Loop Area Institute / Chinese University of Hong Kong / Tsinghua University

Released July 30, 2026

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Genomic foundation model on a Mamba, attention, and mixture-of-experts backbone, with 1M-token context for variant scoring and regulatory DNA design.

DNA & Gene

BrainBeacon

Lingang Laboratory / Shanghai Academy of Artificial Intelligence for Science / Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology / Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / University of Tokyo

Released July 10, 2025

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Cross-species brain spatial transcriptomics foundation model pretrained on 133M cells from human, macaque, marmoset, and mouse whole brains.

Single-cellSpatial omics

Academic