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Wellcome Sanger Institute / Helmholtz Munich / Technical University of Munich / University of Cambridge
Released August 28, 2026
Tissue reconstruction model placing dissociated single cells into spatial coordinates by predicting pairwise distances in a learned embedding space.
Wellcome Sanger Institute / University of Cambridge / Helmholtz Munich / Technical University of Munich
Released August 4, 2026
Spatial transcriptomics foundation model giving gene-, cell- and neighborhood-scale embeddings zero-shot, plus in-silico gene knockout in tissue.
ECG foundation model that reads any subset of the 12 standard leads natively, encoding recordings as variable-size spatiotemporal graphs.
Computer Network Information Center, CAS / University of Oxford / Tongji University / Hunan University / University of Cambridge
Released August 2, 2026
Single-cell foundation model adding a gated cell-level contrastive objective to masked expression pretraining for transferable frozen cell embeddings.
Single-cell perturbation prediction model trained only on synthetic priors, inferring drug targets, intervention strengths, and regulatory graphs.
University of Oxford / Imperial College London / University of Cambridge
Released July 26, 2026
Cross-species single-cell ageing-state classifier that transfers mouse age labels to human HSC and CD8+ T cells, reaching 0.953 held-out AUROC.
De novo small molecule design for protein pockets, steering a discrete flow-matching generator with gradients from a frozen Boltz-2 affinity model.
Zero-shot generative framework that turns 3D pharmacophores into synthesis-ready DNA-encoded libraries of purchasable building blocks.
Transformer that predicts protein-RNA binding affinity from Boltz-2 pre-structural embeddings via cross-modal attention, with no 3D structure step.
Polarizable machine-learning interatomic potential extending MACE with long-range electrostatics, trained on 100M OMol25 DFT calculations.
Vision-omics finetuning that aligns pathology foundation models with spatial transcriptomics so morphology features predict local gene expression.
Generative foundation model that imputes genes and denoises spatial transcriptomics, conditioned on H&E histology, scRNA-seq, and spatial priors.
RNA inverse-folding model that generates sequences predicted to fold into a target 3D backbone, capturing non-canonical pairs and tertiary motifs.
Microsoft Research / German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) / University of Cambridge / Heidelberg University / Mayo Clinic
Released October 20, 2025
Vision-language encoders for chest CT that align 3D volumes with radiology reports using contrastive, report-generation, and masked-image objectives.
University of Birmingham / Aarhus University / Goethe University Frankfurt / University of Sheffield / ITQB NOVA / University of Cambridge / University of Edinburgh
Released October 7, 2025
Single-molecule localisation microscopy encoder that embeds nanoscale point clouds into a 128-dimension latent space to compare protein architecture.
King's College London / University of Washington / University of Pittsburgh / University College London / University of Cambridge
Released September 26, 2025
Histopathology model predicting homologous recombination deficiency from H&E slides in ovarian cancer, reaching 0.846 AUC and 0.938 specificity.
University of Southampton / University of Cambridge / University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust / Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Released September 16, 2025
Centrosome segmentation framework chaining YOLOv11 detection, U-Net refinement, and StarDist cell boundaries across immunofluorescence and IHC tissue.
Institute for Protein Design / University of Washington / University of Cambridge / University of Oxford / UT Southwestern Medical Center / Technical University of Denmark / Microsoft / NVIDIA / Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Released August 14, 2025
All-atom structure prediction for arbitrary biomolecular complexes of proteins, nucleic acids, and ligands, with code and weights under a BSD license.
Multi-state protein inverse folding model that designs one sequence for two conformations, improving sequence recovery 12% over ProteinMPNN.
University of Cambridge / EPFL / SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics / Royal Papworth Hospital
Released July 20, 2025
Bacterial genomics foundation model reading whole genomes as ordered protein sequences. Predicts operons, gene essentiality, and phenotypic traits.
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.
Sensor-language foundation models aligning wearable biosignals with text for zero-shot activity recognition, retrieval, and sensor captioning.
Tsinghua University / Shanghai AI Laboratory / University of Cambridge / University College London
Released May 18, 2025
Brain foundation model unifying EEG and MEG in a single encoder via a shared discrete tokenizer that transfers across sensor layouts and montages.
Brain MRI segmentation foundation model trained on 66,000+ image-label pairs across 14 MRI sub-modalities, with a hypergraph dynamic adapter.
Antibody sequence generation model that samples paired human VH/VL chains, covering inpainting, inverse folding, and CDR grafting in one network.
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology / KU Leuven / University of Cambridge
Released March 20, 2025
GPCR peptide agonist screening with a graph neural network over AlphaFold-Multimer active-state complexes and interatomic contact graphs.
Latent diffusion model generating 3D drug-like molecules and inorganic crystals from one shared all-atom autoencoder and Transformer denoiser.
Columbia University / University of Cambridge / Harvard University / New Mexico Consortium
Released February 21, 2025
Refines AlphaFold2 predictions against cryo-EM, cryo-ET, and X-ray data by optimizing coevolutionary embeddings rather than atomic coordinates.
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science / The Alan Turing Institute / King's College London / Jadavpur University / University of Cambridge / Georgetown University / University College London
Released February 1, 2025
Crossmodal diffusion model synthesizing bulk tumor gene expression from H&E whole-slide images, so grading and survival prediction need no RNA assay.
Surrogate machine learning force field reusing a reference model's node features from earlier steps, running molecular dynamics eight times faster.
DNA methylation foundation model reconstructing genome-wide profiles from sparse input. Outperforms GrimAge2 aging clocks on mortality prediction.
National Cancer Institute / Cedars-Sinai Medical Center / University of Cambridge / The Institute of Cancer Research, London / University of Pennsylvania / University of Sydney / Sungkyunkwan University / University of Maryland, College Park / Medical University of Graz / Tel Aviv University / Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Released October 18, 2024
Spatial transcriptomics prediction from H&E slides, inferring spot-level expression and tumor microenvironment composition in breast cancer.
Pharmacophore-conditioned generator that emits molecules as synthetic trees of Enamine building blocks, so every design carries a synthesis route.
Respiratory acoustic foundation models pretrained on roughly 136K cough and breathing recordings for disease detection and lung function estimation.
Protein function prediction model that conditions a T5 encoder-decoder on retrieved homologs to assign EC numbers, GO terms and Pfam families.
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 / 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.
Baker Lab / Institute for Protein Design / University of Washington / Harvard University / UT Southwestern Medical Center / University of Cambridge / Stanford University / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / North-West University / University of the Free State / University of Graz / Medical University of Graz / University of Victoria / University of British Columbia / UC Berkeley / Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Released July 15, 2021
Protein structure and complex prediction from sequence, in a three-track network that reasons over alignments, distances, and 3D coordinates at once.
Antibody paratope prediction model that identifies antigen-contacting residues from heavy and light CDR sequences alone, using CNN and RNN layers.