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The largest research laboratory at MIT, where dozens of groups advance AI, systems, and computer vision, including work in biology and medicine.
22 models
An MIT machine learning lab developing causal inference and generative models that integrate genomic, imaging, and spatial data in biology.
1 model
Protein foundation model predicting a ten-modality joint embedding from sequence alone. Reaches 69.99% enzyme class accuracy on dark proteins.
Histopathology foundation model predicting spatial gene expression from H&E slides at single-cell resolution via linear whole-slide attention.
EEG foundation model pretrained on raw multi-channel waveforms via continuous-time flow matching. Leads 7 of 9 clinical and BCI benchmarks.
Unified all-atom generative model for biomolecular structure prediction, binder filtering, and controllable protein and nanobody design.
Flow-matching framework that translates omics signatures across biological domains, such as mouse to human transcriptomics, without paired samples.
Multimodal foundation model integrating spatial transcriptomics, H&E histopathology, and pathway scores for single-cell niche discovery.
MIT / Georgia Institute of Technology
Released March 11, 2026
Cell-centric microscopy foundation model that distills morphology and microenvironment views into a unified embedding for virtual spatial omics.
Broad Institute / Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Harvard University / Harvard Medical School / MIT / Massachusetts General Hospital / The Jackson Laboratory / University of Minnesota
Released February 20, 2026
Prime editing efficiency prediction from pegRNA sequence, with every biochemical step of the editing mechanism modeled as its own learned rate.
Inverse folding model that emits a pairwise Potts energy function from a backbone, so the same network designs sequences and predicts mutation ddG.
Energy-based model of protein conformational space, turning a diffusion model into a statistical potential for structure ranking and mutation scoring.
All-atom generative model for de novo protein and peptide binder design against diverse biomolecular targets, wet-lab validated across 26 targets.
Graph diffusion transformer for in-context molecular design, adapting to new tasks from a few molecule-property demonstrations without fine-tuning.
Protein deimmunization framework that aligns a protein language model with GRPO to design sequences carrying fewer MHC Class I T-cell epitopes.
MIT / Harvard Medical School / University of Texas at Austin / University of Washington
Released September 4, 2025
Multimodal diffusion transformer for de novo protein design, jointly generating sequence and structure conditioned on 465 Gene Ontology functions.
Protein dynamics model predicting per-residue covariances and residue-residue coupling from a static structure for fast RMSF and ensemble generation.
Patient-level representation learning from scRNA-seq: a transformer set encoder with a diffusion decoder, fine-tuned for clinical prediction.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Lingang Laboratory / Sun Yat-sen University / Fudan University / Shanghai AI Laboratory / Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica / MIT / Ningxia Medical University
Released August 4, 2025
Structure-based virtual screening model that jointly predicts protein-ligand complex structures and binding fitness from sequence and SMILES.
Protein surface tokenizer that turns surface-exposed residues into codebook tokens, lifting SKEMPI binding affinity change prediction to r = 0.600.
MSA-based protein language model for unsupervised contact prediction, outperforming ESM2-15B with 111M parameters and leading on interface contacts.
De novo protein backbone generator trained on low-confidence AlphaFold structures as corrupted data, reaching 86% designability at 700 residues.
Single-cell perturbation-response model that predicts transcriptomic and imaging outcomes of unseen genetic perturbations via a VAE with attention.
Plasmid characterization and retrieval model aligning DNA sequences with property text across ten facets, from antimicrobial resistance to host range.
Protein backbone generation from voxelized 3D densities, pairing a 3D CNN autoencoder with latent flow matching for shape and motif conditioning.
Molecular property prediction foundation model pretrained on computed descriptors. Wins 75% of Polaris tasks and 97% of MoleculeACE assays.
Chinese University of Hong Kong / MIT / University of California, San Diego / University of Amsterdam / University of Pennsylvania
Released June 17, 2025
MSA design model generating alignments from protein language model embeddings to improve folding accuracy on orphan and low-homology proteins.
Open model that jointly predicts biomolecular structure and small-molecule binding affinity, approaching FEP+ accuracy in seconds on a single GPU.
Multimodal clinical foundation model reasoning jointly over 2D and 3D medical images, ECG time-series, and text reports across nine clinical domains.
Harvard University / MIT / Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women's Hospital / Mass General Brigham
Released May 23, 2025
Distribution-level representation learning that embeds whole cell populations, perturbation responses, and sequence sets, not individual data points.
Self-supervised transformer pretrained on millions of tandem mass spectra, giving embeddings for spectral annotation and fingerprint prediction.
Massachusetts General Hospital / MIT CSAIL / Duke University
Released May 16, 2025
Surgical video foundation model pretrained by entropy-maximizing compression on 0.78M unlabeled frames from 2,122 minimally invasive procedures.
MIT / Sorbonne University / Inserm / CNRS / Tufts University / Seoul National University / UC Berkeley / Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences / University of Göttingen / Peking University / Changping Laboratory
Released May 14, 2025
End-to-end protein structure alignment from 3D coordinates, matching TM-align quality at LDDT 0.56 and beating Foldseek on SCOPe40 search.
Radboud University Medical Center / University of Amsterdam / Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry / Technical University of Munich / MIT
Released May 1, 2025
Peptide-MHC structure prediction by SE(3)-equivariant diffusion, sampling 10 Cα conformations in under 6 seconds at 0.45 Å best-of-10 RMSD.
Multi-agent LLM framework for autonomous discovery in protein science, pairing generator and critic agents over design and simulation tools.
GENTEL Lab / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / East China University of Science and Technology / MIT
Released April 9, 2025
Zero-shot RNA design pipeline that ranks variants by genomic language model likelihood combined with inverse-folding structural compatibility.
Protein binder design that inverts the frozen Boltz-1 all-atom predictor, targeting small molecules, nucleic acids, metals, and modified residues.
MIT CSAIL / Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital / Boston Children's Hospital
Released March 20, 2025
2D/3D X-ray to volume registration for surgical navigation, aligning live fluoroscopy to preoperative CT or MRI after a five-minute fine-tune.
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research / MIT / Medical University of Vienna
Released March 16, 2025
Single-cell model inferring which developmental signaling pathways are active from scRNA-seq, trained on combinatorial stem-cell perturbation screens.
Protein-protein interaction language model that embeds whole sets of interacting chains through cross-chain attention, not one sequence at a time.
Clinical imaging encoder multitask-pretrained across X-ray, mammography, dermoscopy, fundus, ultrasound, CT, and histopathology for few-shot transfer.
Latent diffusion model generating 3D drug-like molecules and inorganic crystals from one shared all-atom autoencoder and Transformer denoiser.
Generative design of protease substrates, producing 10-mer peptides conditioned on a target cleavage profile across 18 matrix metalloproteinases.
De novo protein sequence design conditioned on target vibrational dynamics, pairing a diffusion designer with a predictor that ranks candidates.
Anti-phage defense gene classifier pairing protein language model embeddings with genomic features to find immune systems outside defense islands.
MIT / University of Washington / University of Tokyo / Northwestern University
Released December 22, 2024
Structure-to-sequence protein design network inverting trRosetta, predicting coevolution features from a backbone to generate stable sequences.
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.
Mahmood Lab / Mass General Brigham / Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women's Hospital / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Broad Institute / Harvard University / MIT / Helmholtz Munich / Technical University of Munich / Emory University / Pusan National University / University of Tokyo / National Cancer Center Japan
Released December 2, 2024
Histopathology patch encoder turning 512x512 tiles into 768-dimensional features, trained with a CoCa objective on 1.26 million captioned images.
Motion foundation model for wearable accelerometry, trained with relative contrastive learning on 1B segments from 87,376 participants.
Tsinghua University / University of Washington / MIT / University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign / ByteDance / Helixon Research
Released November 26, 2024
Target-conditioned peptide binder design model that samples hot-spot residues from an energy-based density, then extends fragments autoregressively.
Institute for Protein Design / University of Washington / Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Tufts University / University College Cork / MIT / Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf / Forschungszentrum Jülich
Released November 18, 2024
Macrocyclic peptide binder design against protein targets, cyclizing a diffusion backbone generator's positional encoding so it closes rings.
Open-source structure prediction model for proteins, nucleic acids, and small molecules, trained on public data to AlphaFold3-level accuracy.
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.
Cell Painting image generation conditioned on a control well image and a compound's structure, covering cell lines and chemicals never trained on.
Molecular property prediction from 3D structure for assays with dozens of labels, pretrained by extreme denoising plus DFT and LLM auxiliary labels.
Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard University / MIT / University Health Network / University of Toronto / Vector Institute / University of Edinburgh
Released November 3, 2024
DNA methylation foundation model over 49,156 array CpG sites. Imputes missing values, embeds samples, and predicts epigenetic age and disease risk.
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research / MIT / Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Released November 2, 2024
Poly(A)-tail length change predicted from mRNA 3' UTR sequence in maturing oocytes, scoring how single-nucleotide variants disrupt tail lengthening.
Helmholtz Munich / European Molecular Biology Laboratory / Heidelberg University / LMU Munich / MIT / University of Helsinki / Karolinska Institutet
Released October 23, 2024
Spot detection and quantification in 5D fluorescence microscopy. Pretrained 2D and 3D U-Nets segment foci, then Gaussian fitting measures each one.
Diffusion model that jointly generates a 3D molecule and its shape, electrostatic surface and pharmacophores for ligand-based drug design.
Walk-jump sampler that runs molecular dynamics in a smoothed, noised space of all-atom coordinates to generate peptide conformational ensembles.
Zhejiang University / University of Adelaide / Northeastern University / MIT / Ant Group
Released October 12, 2024
Predicts binding free energy change (ΔΔG) at protein-protein interfaces by scoring bound and unbound states with an inverse folding model.
All-atom protein dynamics simulator that bridges consecutive MD snapshots directly using SO(3)-equivariant two-sided stochastic interpolants.
Multimodal LLM for inverse molecular design, interleaving text and graph generation with a diffusion transformer and A* retrosynthetic planning.
Perturbation target identification for single-cell transcriptomics, reading intervened genes off the difference between two inferred causal graphs.
EPFL / SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics / University of Zurich / Wageningen University & Research / University at Buffalo / Lausanne University Hospital / MIT / Visterra
Released September 30, 2024
De novo protein binder design pipeline that hallucinates binders through frozen AlphaFold2 weights, averaging a 46% experimental success rate.
Molecular dynamics surrogate that generates whole trajectories, switching between forward simulation, transition path sampling and upsampling.
Tatta Bio / DOE Joint Genome Institute / EMBL-EBI / Seoul National University / MIT
Released August 17, 2024
Mixed-modality genomic language model encoding protein coding sequences as amino acids and intergenic DNA as nucleotides in native genomic context.
Interactive foundation model for biomedical image segmentation, prompted with scribbles, clicks, and bounding boxes to segment unseen structures.
University of Washington / Institute for Protein Design / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center / Yale University / MIT
Released July 9, 2024
Structure-based mutational effect prediction from local atomic environments, scoring how substitutions change protein stability and binding affinity.
Cornell University / Weill Cornell Medicine / MIT CSAIL / Massachusetts General Hospital
Released May 22, 2024
Keypoint-based foundation model for brain MRI registration, pretrained on over 100,000 3D volumes for rigid, affine, and deformable alignment.
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research / MIT CSAIL / MIT / Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Released April 17, 2024
Protein language model that predicts which of twelve subcellular compartments and biomolecular condensates a human protein partitions into.
Genomic language model trained on metagenomic scaffolds that learns protein co-regulation and function by modeling gene context and operon structure.
MIT CSAIL / UC Berkeley / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Harvard Medical School
Released February 28, 2024
Blind protein-ligand docking that transfers to binding domains absent from training, scoring 22.6% top-1 on DockGen and 50% on PoseBusters.
Protein conformational ensemble generator that fine-tunes AlphaFold 2 with flow matching, sampling protein dynamics beyond a single static structure.
Spot detection for single-molecule RNA FISH and fluorescence microscopy, trained on a differentiable F1 approximation, needing no threshold tuning.
Microsoft Research AI for Science / MIT CSAIL / University of Oxford / University of Cambridge
Released October 8, 2023
De novo protein backbone generation by SE(3) flow matching, with motif-scaffolding built in. Samples a designable backbone in seconds on one GPU.
MIT CSAIL / Cornell University / Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Released April 12, 2023
Medical image segmentation model that solves unseen segmentation tasks in context from a few labeled examples, with no retraining or fine-tuning.
Rigid protein-protein docking by diffusion over the rigid-body pose, with a confidence model ranking sampled complexes. Median C-RMSD 4.85 on DIPS.
Institute for Protein Design / University of Washington / MIT / University College Cork
Released February 26, 2023
Cyclic peptide structure prediction and de novo macrocycle design, by wrapping a frozen structure predictor's positional encoding into a ring.
MIT CSAIL / Columbia University / CNRS / University of Cambridge / University of Oxford
Released February 5, 2023
De novo protein backbone generation by SE(3) diffusion over rigid-body frames. Samples designable monomers up to 500 residues without pretraining.
Blind protein-ligand docking by diffusion over ligand translations, rotations and torsion angles, reaching 38% top-1 accuracy on PDBBind.
Rigid protein-protein docking model that predicts a complex from two unbound structures in one pass, with no candidate sampling or refinement.
DeepChem / Reverie Labs / Deep Forest Sciences / MIT CSAIL / UC Berkeley / University of Toronto
Released October 19, 2020
Chemical language model pretrained on up to 77 million PubChem SMILES strings for molecular property prediction on the MoleculeNet benchmarks.