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Multimodal diffusion model that co-designs protein sequence and 3D structure around cofactors and small molecules for de novo heme enzyme design.
Generative foundation model that produces atom-level molecular dynamics trajectories for protein monomers and protein-ligand complexes.
BioGeometry / Peking University / Mila / Université de Montréal / HEC Montréal
Released March 6, 2026
Protein inverse folding model aligning ProteinMPNN by multi-objective preference optimization to improve developability without losing fold fidelity.
Diffusion model predicting single-cell responses to genetic or drug perturbations, generating over distributions to capture population variability.
Beijing Zhongguancun Academy / Mila / Université de Montréal / University of Science and Technology of China / HEC Montréal
Released January 29, 2026
Family of autoregressive genomic foundation models that reconcile k-mer tokenization with single-nucleotide resolution at contexts up to 98k bp.
Self-supervised foundation model for 3D brain MRI, learning transferable anatomical representations from unlabeled scans for disease classification.
University of Toronto / The Hospital for Sick Children / University of Cambridge / ETH Zurich / Vector Institute / Mila / McGill University / Caltech
Released July 16, 2025
Synthesizable 3D molecule generation that jointly samples building blocks, reactions, and atomic coordinates, returning a synthesis route per design.
Mila / Université de Montréal / McGill University / IBM Research / HEC Montréal
Released May 30, 2025
Protein conformation ensemble generation aligned to force-field energies, calibrating an AlphaFold 3-style diffusion model against MD thermodynamics.
Mila / Chandar Research Lab / Université de Montréal / Polytechnique Montréal / Amgen
Released May 22, 2025
AMPLIFY post-trained to absorb 3D structure from protein graph networks, lifting trRosetta contact precision from 0.253 to 0.320 at P@L/5.
Mila / Chandar Research Lab / Université de Montréal / Polytechnique Montréal / Amgen
Released May 22, 2025
ESM-2 post-trained to absorb 3D structure from protein graph networks, raising contact precision on a withheld CASP16 set by 59%.
Tsinghua University / Microsoft Research AI for Science / McGill University / Mila
Released March 26, 2025
Structure-based drug design model pairing an autoregressive transformer for ligand graphs with a diffusion head for 3D binding-pose coordinates.
University of British Columbia / Mila / Simon Fraser University / Recursion Pharmaceuticals
Released March 8, 2025
De novo small molecule generation that assembles drug-like graphs atom by atom, pretrained on cheap property proxies and finetuned per objective.
Protein structure tokenizer that encodes 3D backbones as discrete VQ-VAE tokens, fixing the codebook under-utilization that caps their vocabulary.
Antibody affinity maturation framework that steers flow-matching structure generation with a binding predictor, then mutates CDRs by inverse folding.
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.
Tsinghua University / Microsoft Research AI for Science / McGill University / Mila
Released February 7, 2025
Structure-based drug discovery transformer that handles protein-ligand docking and pocket-aware 3D molecule design in one pretrained model.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Hainan University / Sun Yat-sen University / McGill University / Mila / MIT
Released December 16, 2024
Geometric foundation model matching enzymes to the reactions they catalyze, trained on 1.5 million structure-informed enzyme-reaction pairs.
McGill University / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Mila / Université de Montréal / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Institute for Protein Design / Yale University / Northeastern University / Broad Institute / MIT / Google DeepMind
Released November 10, 2024
De novo enzyme design conditioned on the reaction to be catalysed: substrate and product SMILES in, catalytic pocket, enzyme, and docked complex out.
Mila / Université de Montréal / McGill University / University of Ottawa / National Research Council Canada / HEC Montréal
Released October 24, 2024
Protein conformational ensemble generator that fine-tunes ESM3 with masked discrete diffusion over structure tokens instead of 3D coordinates.
McGill University / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Mila / Université de Montréal / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Institute for Protein Design / Microsoft Research / Google DeepMind
Released October 1, 2024
Enzyme catalytic pocket design conditioned on a reaction: substrate and product in, pocket backbone, sequence, and EC class out.
Generative model of bacterial gene content that expands a handful of chosen KEGG modules into the full gene complement a viable cell would need.
Zero-shot protein conformation sampling that perturbs an input structure and anneals it back with a score network trained only on crystal structures.
Joint sequence-structure protein representation framework that fuses ESM-2 language model embeddings with GearNet geometric graph neural networks.
Geometric relational graph neural network that encodes 3D protein structures through geometry-aware message passing and self-supervised pretraining.
McGill University / Mila / Université du Québec à Montréal / Institut Pasteur / Mines Paris – PSL
Released July 11, 2020
RNA virtual screening that reads a binding site's base-pairing graph and predicts the chemical fingerprint of its ligand to rank compound libraries.