The graduate university of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, training researchers across its institute network in the physical and the life sciences.
Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Tianjin University of Science and Technology
Released September 13, 2026
All-atom de novo protein design that denoises sequence and structure as a single Cartesian process, reading residue identity from atomic occupancy.
Hangzhou Institute of Medicine, CAS / University of Macau / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Released September 8, 2026
3' UTR foundation model pretrained on 7 million eukaryotic untranslated regions for mRNA stability prediction and de novo UTR sequence design.
Computer Network Information Center, CAS / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Released September 1, 2026
Protein inverse folding that fuses sequence and structure priors from two frozen language models per residue. Reaches 63.11% recovery on CATH 4.2.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Naval University of Engineering / Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Released August 28, 2026
Protein structure prediction from multiple sequence alignments, trained across MSA depths so one model spans deep alignments and orphan proteins.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology
Released August 25, 2026
Antifreeze protein classifier over frozen ESM-2 embeddings, trained only on sequences whose antifreeze activity was measured in the lab.
Shanghai Innovation Institute / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Released August 24, 2026
Long-context RNA foundation model reading whole mRNA transcripts at single-nucleotide resolution, pretrained at a native 10,240 nt context.
Hangzhou Institute of Medicine, CAS / University of Macau / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Released August 24, 2026
Codon language model for mRNA prediction and coding sequence design, steering synonymous codon choice with a swappable host usage prior at inference.
Ocean University of China / Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica / Marine Biomedical Research Institute of Qingdao / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Released August 13, 2026
Molecular glue degrader activity prediction from SMILES and protein sequence, with two-stage cross-attention that follows E3-then-substrate binding.
Westlake University / Chinese Academy of Sciences / Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Released August 6, 2026
Single-cell foundation model that predicts latent representations of graph-connected gene blocks instead of reconstructing individual gene counts.
RNA and single-stranded DNA 3D structure prediction from sequence alone, with no MSA or language-model inputs and roughly 100x cheaper inference.
Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Chinese Academy of Sciences
Released June 24, 2026
Vision-guided model that builds virtual 3D organoid surrogates from brightfield microscopy to predict chemical perturbation responses without omics.
Vitaura / Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Released June 23, 2026
Multi-view single-cell foundation model at 12B parameters, aligning expression and perception views with an LLM-JEPA joint-embedding objective.
Zhejiang University / Nanjing Tech University / Sichuan Agricultural University / Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica / Nanjing University / Chinese Academy of Sciences / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Released June 13, 2026
Diffusion-based generative RNA model for de novo sequence design, conditioned on function, RNA family, structure, or binding proteins.
Phylogeny-aware genome annotation model predicting exons, introns, UTRs and repeats directly from eukaryotic DNA, with no RNA or protein evidence.
Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, CAS / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, CAS / Fudan University / Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University / Guangzhou University
Released March 10, 2026
Phosphopeptide detectability prediction for mass spectrometry, rescoring DDA identifications and pruning DIA spectral libraries to cut search time.
Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence / Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Released October 28, 2025
Latent diffusion model that backmaps coarse-grained protein structures to all-atom detail, with bond geometry learned into the latent space.
Tencent AI for Life Science Lab / Chinese Academy of Sciences / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Fudan University / Sun Yat-sen University / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Guangzhou Medical University
Released September 16, 2025
Generative antibody and nanobody design model that co-designs CDR sequences and antigen-bound structures for de novo design and affinity maturation.
Beijing Institute of Genomics / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / National Laboratory for Scientific Computing
Released August 2, 2025
Influenza genomic language model adapting DNABERT-2 to ~900,000 viral genomes, identifying subtypes, segments, and pathogenicity from sequence.
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.
Shanghai AI Laboratory / Tsinghua University / Fudan University / Tianjin University / Georgia Institute of Technology / Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / City University of Hong Kong
Released July 11, 2025
Protein foundation model built on Bayesian Flow Networks, prompted with MSA profiles for structure- and function-preserving sequence design.
Lingang Laboratory / Shanghai Academy of Artificial Intelligence for Science / Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology / Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / University of Tokyo
Released July 10, 2025
Cross-species brain spatial transcriptomics foundation model pretrained on 133M cells from human, macaque, marmoset, and mouse whole brains.
Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences / DP Technology / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / AI for Science Institute / State Key Laboratory of Medical Proteomics / Peking University
Released June 30, 2025
Proteomics foundation model for peptide-spectrum scoring and open de novo sequencing, reading over 1,300 modifications from tandem mass spectra.
Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology / Second Military Medical University / DP Technology / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Tongji University / Zhejiang University School of Medicine / Peking University / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Released June 19, 2025
Multimodal drug-response model coupling cell and molecule foundation models, pretrained on 1.8M perturbation RNA-seq profiles over 22,000 compounds.
Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica / ShanghaiTech University / Lingang Laboratory / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Tongji University / University of Science and Technology of China / Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine / Zunyi Medical University / Guizhou Medical University
Released June 4, 2025
Relative protein-ligand binding affinity prediction from docked complexes, matching Schrodinger FEP+ ranking accuracy zero-shot on the FEP benchmark.
ByteDance Seed / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Chinese Academy of Sciences / Tsinghua University / Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Released May 27, 2025
Cyclic peptide design conditioned on target protein structure, generating all four cyclization types via all-atom, all-bond harmonic SDE modeling.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Beijing Zhongguancun Academy / Nanjing University
Released May 27, 2025
Compact 1.1M-parameter DNA language model distilled from Nucleotide Transformer v2, outperforming its 500M teacher on 11 of 18 benchmark tasks.
Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Uppsala University / ProtonUnfold Technology
Released May 12, 2025
Molecular conformation description language encoding 3D geometry as SMILES plus internal-coordinate tokens, turning 3D modeling into a sequence task.
ByteDance Seed / Hunan University / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Released April 17, 2025
All-atom generative model for protein complexes that designs multi-chain binders from scratch and performs multimer folding and inverse folding.
Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, CAS / Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Centre for Regenerative Medicine and Health, CAS / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Released April 13, 2025
Single-cell multi-omics foundation model with a Mamba backbone, pretrained on 2.7 million paired scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq profiles.
Chinese Academy of Sciences / Shandong University of Technology / Beijing Institute of Lifeomics / Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences / China Medical University
Released March 25, 2025
De novo peptide sequencing from mirror-protease mass spectra, reading paired complementary spectra to recover near-complete fragment ion coverage.
Tsinghua University / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Chinese Academy of Sciences / Peking University / University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign / Griffith University / StoneWise
Released March 6, 2025
Full-atom flow matching model that generates a ligand and the induced-fit holo pocket together, starting from an apo binding site.
Tongji University / Fudan University / Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Chinese Academy of Sciences
Released March 3, 2025
Secondary metabolite structure prediction from microbial biosynthetic gene clusters, generating SMILES strings from Pfam functional-domain tokens.
University of Technology Sydney / Nankai University / Renmin University of China / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Zhejiang University / UCLA
Released February 26, 2025
Ternary complex structure predictor for PROTACs and molecular glues, placing E3 ligase, degrader, and target protein in one SE(3)-equivariant pass.
Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Beijing Normal University
Released January 27, 2025
Translates whole-brain imaging phenotypes between humans and mice through a shared latent space built from transcriptomics and connectivity.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign / Tsinghua University / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Peking University / University of Washington / Georgia Institute of Technology / Helixon Research
Released January 25, 2025
Molecular docking framework that poses several ligands sharing one protein pocket at once, using their consistency to sharpen each prediction.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Ningxia Medical University / Nutshell Therapeutics / Shanghai Blueray Biopharma / Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Released December 21, 2024
Structure-based molecular generation guided by imputed ligand electron density, assembling drug-like compounds into a pocket fragment by fragment.
Westlake University / Zhejiang University / Harvard University / The Ohio State University / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Released December 16, 2024
Histopathology vision-language model handling image patches and gigapixel slides in one 15B checkpoint, across classification, VQA, and captioning.
Lingang Laboratory / Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine / Fudan University / Tongji University
Released November 26, 2024
Protein conformational ensemble generator using SE(3) flow matching from a perturbed ESMFold prior, sampling MD-like dynamics from sequence alone.
Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Central China Institute of Artificial Intelligence / University of Waterloo
Released November 15, 2024
Immune protein structure prediction for TCRs, antibodies, and nanobodies. Adapts ESMFold with LoRA, reaching 1.31 Å RMSD on the CDR3-beta loop.
Beijing Institute of Technology / Aerospace Center Hospital / Beijing Zhongguancun Academy / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / China Agricultural University
Released November 9, 2024
Prokaryotic promoter design and zero-shot promoter-strength ranking from a nucleotide language model pretrained on 17,806 microbial genomes.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences / University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign / Tsinghua University / Peking University
Released October 28, 2024
Reprograms a frozen single-target diffusion model for dual-target drug design by composing SE(3)-equivariant messages across two aligned pockets.
Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences / West China Hospital of Sichuan University / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Luoyang Institute of Information Technology Industries
Released October 26, 2024
Chemical perturbation model generating post-treatment transcriptomes for compounds and cell lines never screened, from SMILES structure and dose.
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Beijing Jiaotong University
Released October 14, 2024
EEG foundation model that makes each electrode its own token stream, pretrained by causal next-signal prediction over 138 electrode positions.
Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence / Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Released September 14, 2024
Self-supervised 3D molecular pretraining that corrupts and rebuilds tetrahedral local structures, then transfers to toxicity and affinity prediction.
Hangzhou Institute of Medicine, CAS / Zhejiang University of Technology / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Released June 2, 2024
Discrete diffusion model that generates RNA secondary structure contact maps as pixel-wise segmentation, conditioned on RNA-FM and UFold features.
Tsinghua University / Peng Cheng Laboratory / Peking University / University of Science and Technology of China / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / ByteDance
Released January 15, 2024
Structure-based drug design diffusion model that re-extracts the essential binding subcomplex from a pocket at every step of 3D ligand generation.
Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS / Pengcheng Laboratory / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Tsinghua University / Macau University of Science and Technology / Wenzhou Medical University / Nanchang University / Chinese Medicine Guangdong Laboratory / Guangzhou National Laboratory / Capital Medical University / Shenzhen University / Macao Polytechnic University
Released January 4, 2024
Vision-language model for annotation-free pathology localization, marking the finding a text prompt names in X-ray, histology and fundus images.
Yonsei University / Hunan University / China University of Petroleum (East China) / Yunnan Normal University / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / University of Tsukuba / Lanzhou University
Released October 10, 2023
Conditional GAN that generates small molecules against a protein-protein interaction interface, encoding the complex with graph attention networks.
Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica / Zhejiang University / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / ShanghaiTech University / Lingang Laboratory / University of Science and Technology of China / Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine
Released June 21, 2023
Equivariant heterogeneous graph network that rescores docked protein-ligand poses for virtual screening and ranks structural analogs by activity.