A comprehensive national research university in Jinan, China, covering most disciplines, with work in medical imaging, genomics, and protein AI.
Northwestern Polytechnical University / Qilu Hospital of Shandong University
Released August 9, 2026
Virtual spatial transcriptomics model that infers spot-level gene expression from H&E slides by fusing tile, slide, and spatial-position features.
Signal peptide design framework that generates, filters, and ranks cargo-specific secretion signals using evolution-constrained discrete diffusion.
Shandong University / Qingdao University of Science and Technology / University of Science and Technology of China / King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Released July 2, 2026
RNA modification profiling from nanopore direct RNA-seq signal; self-supervised pretraining resolves 11 modification types and extends to new ones.
Uncertainty-aware diffusion model that enhances cryo-EM density maps while estimating voxel-wise confidence via Monte Carlo sampling.
Protein complex quality assessment model that scores docked and predicted dimers with separate chain graphs and an interface contact graph.
Evolution-guided diffusion model that generates temporal protein folding pathways, from unfolded chain to native state, rather than static structures.
Shandong University / University of Electronic Science and Technology of China / Chinese Academy of Sciences
Released November 23, 2025
Deep learning framework that predicts DNA methylation from genomic sequence across 39 human tissues, with an scRNA-seq variant for unseen cell types.
Shandong University / Peking University / Fudan University / City University of Hong Kong
Released September 27, 2025
Cross-species RBP-RNA binding site predictor that turns RNA-binding protein conservation into label smoothing, reaching 0.85 AUC from human to mouse.
Fudan University / Microsoft Research Asia / Shandong University / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Zhejiang University School of Medicine / Shandong First Medical University / Linyi People's Hospital
Released August 22, 2025
Vision-language foundation model for kidney cancer CT, covering zero-shot malignancy diagnosis, report generation, and recurrence risk prediction.
Macao Polytechnic University / University of Electronic Science and Technology of China / Tianjin University / Shandong University
Released August 5, 2025
Single-cell multi-omics foundation model whose three-stage pretraining and distillation yield RNA-and-ATAC-aware embeddings from RNA-only input.
Quality assessment model for predicted RNA 3D structures, estimating local and global lDDT from predicted contact and distance-deviation maps.
Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Shandong University / Qingdao Marine Science and Technology Center / Zelixir Biotech / Macao Polytechnic University
Released July 19, 2025
Species-conditioned codon language model that jointly reads 5'UTRs, coding sequence, and RNA secondary structure to design native-like genes.
Intrinsically disordered region function prediction, scoring every residue for five binding subtypes plus disordered flexible linkers.
Shandong University / Qilu Hospital of Shandong University / Johns Hopkins University
Released April 26, 2025
Single-cell type annotation pairing a CellMarker-derived knowledge graph with multi-agent LLM retrieval, generalizing across 11 tissue types.
Chinese University of Hong Kong / Huawei / Technical University of Munich / University of Strasbourg / Shandong University / Chinese Academy of Sciences
Released January 20, 2025
Grounded multimodal language model for endoscopic surgery, supporting visual dialogue, region-based question answering, and bounding-box grounding.
Shandong University / Westlake University / University of Münster / Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology
Released November 13, 2024
De novo atomic model building from cryo-EM density maps, adapting AlphaFold2 with local attention and a 3D rotary position embedding.
Renmin University of China / Nanyang Technological University / Shandong University
Released October 23, 2024
Protein complex interface quality assessment model that pairs persistent homology barcodes with a graph attention network to predict DockQ scores.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Fuzhou University / BioMap / Shandong University
Released September 13, 2024
Sequence-conditioned diffusion model that samples backbone conformational ensembles for intrinsically disordered proteins without MSAs or simulation.
DNA language model for interpretable prediction of 4mC, 5hmC, and 6mA methylation sites across species, using multi-scale k-mer BERT encoders.