A public research university in La Jolla, California, pairing bioengineering and computational genomics with a large academic health system.
Soochow University / Chapman University / University of California, San Diego
Released August 20, 2026
Variant effect and disease phosphosite prediction that fuses frozen ESM-2 embeddings with normal-mode protein dynamics over AlphaFold residue graphs.
Brain MRI morphometry model that estimates cortical thickness, surface area, and volume in milliseconds instead of hours.
Meta-learning framework that transfers perturbation responses across cell lines, donors, and drugs from a few measured seed perturbations.
Vision-language foundation model linking human brain activation maps and neuroscience text for text-to-brain and brain-to-text generation.
University of California, San Diego / Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence / Carnegie Mellon University / Scripps Research
Released February 5, 2026
Single-cell foundation model running self-attention across all 27,874 human genes, with Gene Ontology priors injected through a graph network.
Cancer genomics foundation model embedding clinical gene-panel mutations into tumor subtype vectors. Pretrained on 30,328 tumors and 8 networks.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory / University of California, San Diego
Released September 3, 2025
Binding free-energy surrogate trained on 1.4M molecular dynamics frames, ranking docking poses ~28,000x faster than physics-based MMGBSA.
Shenzhen University / University of Nottingham Ningbo China / University of California, San Diego / Changzhou University
Released August 14, 2025
Structure-based drug design pipeline generating 3D molecules in binding pockets, raising zero-shot CrossDocked2020 docking success from 53% to 64%.
Shenzhen University / University of Nottingham Ningbo China / University of California, San Diego
Released July 9, 2025
Structure-based 3D molecule generation with one diffusion backbone for fragment growing, linker design, scaffold hopping, and side-chain decoration.
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.
RNA inverse folding with an attention-free RWKV language model that designs sequences for a target secondary structure with tunable G-C content.
Multimodal large language model that writes free-form natural-language gene function descriptions directly from a nucleotide sequence and a prompt.
Stony Brook University / La Jolla Institute for Immunology / University of California, San Diego
Released March 18, 2025
Enhancer prediction from DNA sequence alone, reaching 88.05% accuracy and 76.22% MCC on held-out ENCODE cCRE regions and annotating the whole genome.
Protein structure embedding model that compresses each 3D fold into a single fixed-length vector for proteome-wide similarity search and clustering.
Stanford University / The Catholic University of Korea / University of California, San Diego
Released February 1, 2025
Prostate cancer detection model for MRI and transrectal ultrasound, trained with patch-level contrastive learning across 4,401 patients.
Multimodal foundation model for wearable physiological sensing across PPG, ECG, EEG, GSR, and IMU signals, using channel-aware attention.
Sanford Burnham Prebys / Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine / National Cancer Institute / University of California, San Diego / Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego / Leibniz University Hannover
Released November 15, 2024
Histopathology model predicting extrachromosomal DNA status from routine H&E slides by first inferring the tumor transcriptome from tile features.
Prescient Design / Genentech / University of California, San Diego / Guide Labs / New York University
Released November 9, 2024
Generative masked protein language model with an interpretable concept layer, letting designers set 718 biophysical and annotation concepts directly.
University of California, San Diego / Scripps Research / Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Carnegie Mellon University / Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Released October 6, 2024
Multi-modal protein foundation model aligning 3D structure and literature text to a sequence anchor through contrastive pretraining.
Tsinghua University / National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing / University of California, San Diego
Released October 5, 2024
Diffusion model for de novo protein backbone design that learns a 32-dimensional latent code for global fold geometry and generates conditioned on it.
Template-guided protein design model that miniaturizes, diversifies, or expands a natural protein by decoding a fixed-size probabilistic encoding.
University of Stuttgart / German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) / Max Planck Institute for Informatics / University of Texas at Austin / University of Bonn / University of California, San Diego / National University of Singapore
Released June 20, 2023
Self-supervised vision foundation model pretrained on 1.3M medical images via second-order graph matching, for segmentation and classification.
Multi-modal LLM answering free-form questions about a compound's indications, pharmacodynamics and mechanism of action from its SMILES string.