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Message-passing neural network that designs buried hydrogen-bond networks onto protein backbones, combining learned placement with PyRosetta scoring.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill / University of Texas at Austin / University of Pennsylvania
Released May 27, 2026
Cell world model pretrained on a 2.4M-cell mouse embryonic atlas, predicting one-step transcriptional state transitions and perturbation response.
fMRI foundation model of the human brain connectome: 1.2B parameters and brain-environment interaction tokens for behavior and disease prediction.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill / Rutgers University / Barnard College / Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Released March 3, 2025
Structure-aware adapter that injects chromatin-derived gene regulatory networks into single-cell RNA foundation models like scGPT and scFoundation.
Southwest Jiaotong University / Purdue University / University at Albany, State University of New York / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill / Chengdu University of Information Technology
Released February 5, 2025
Medical image segmentation model that replaces MedSAM's manual box prompts with a diffusion prompt encoder and labels each mask by class.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill / University of Washington / Purdue University
Released January 14, 2025
Cryo-EM reconstruction with neural radiance fields in Euclidean 3D space, separating conformational motion from compositional assembly states.
Tissue-aware foundation model that restores brain MRI quality across motion correction, super-resolution, denoising, and harmonization.
Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Southern University of Science and Technology / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill / CirCode Biomed
Released October 13, 2024
RNA foundation language model pretrained on mammalian and viral genomes, fine-tuned to predict translation efficiency, half-life, and splice sites.
Foundation model for medical image registration that aligns CT and MRI across anatomies and modalities without per-pair optimization or retraining.
Vanderbilt University / Vanderbilt University Medical Center / Central South University / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Released June 27, 2022
Renal pathology segmentation covering six kidney tissue types across 5x to 40x magnifications from one network, and transferring from human to mouse.