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University of Toronto

A public research university across three campuses in Toronto, Canada, with research spanning medicine, computer science, and the life sciences.

Location: Toronto, Canada
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10 models(3 DNA & Gene, 2 Protein, 2 Imaging, 1 Language model, 1 RNA, 1 Biosignals, 1 Single-cell)

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Models (10)

C3P

University of Toronto

Released May 24, 2026

1

Contrastive promoter-protein pretraining that aligns bacterial promoters with their encoded proteins to learn regulatory genomics representations.

DNA & Gene

BioReason-Pro

Arc Institute / UCSF / University of Toronto / Vector Institute

Released March 20, 2026

9122

Multimodal reasoning LLM for protein function prediction, fusing protein language model embeddings to emit interpretable GO-term reasoning traces.

ProteinLanguage model

GO-GPT

Bowang Lab

Released March 20, 2026

936122

Protein function prediction model that autoregressively generates Gene Ontology terms from amino acid sequence instead of classifying fixed labels.

Protein

dnaHNet

Arc Institute / Carnegie Mellon University / University of Toronto

Released February 11, 2026

2

Tokenizer-free genomic foundation model that adaptively chunks raw nucleotides, enabling zero-shot variant fitness and gene essentiality prediction.

DNA & Gene

evoRate

University of Toronto

Released February 2, 2026

Genome language model that adds evolutionary-rate prediction to pretraining, improving representations for variant effect and regulatory genomics.

DNA & Gene

EchoJEPA

Bowang Lab

Released February 2, 2026

4329

Joint-embedding predictive foundation model for echocardiography, pretrained on 18M cardiac ultrasound videos for artifact-robust representations.

Imaging

Orthrus

Bowang Lab

Released October 12, 2024

1819.9K129

Mamba-based mature RNA foundation model, contrastively trained on splice isoforms and 400+ mammalian species orthologs for mRNA property prediction.

RNA

ECG-FM

University of Toronto / Vector Institute

Released August 9, 2024

96300

Open transformer foundation model for 12-lead electrocardiograms, pretrained on 1.5 million unlabeled ECGs with a wav2vec 2.0 self-supervised recipe.

Biosignals

scGPT

Bowang Lab

Released February 26, 2024

1.2K1.6K

Generative pretrained transformer trained on 33 million human cells for single-cell annotation, batch correction, and perturbation prediction.

Single-cell

MedSAM

Bowang Lab / University Health Network / University of Toronto / Vector Institute / Western University / New York University / Yale University

Released January 22, 2024

1.4K1.8K4.4K

Promptable foundation model for universal medical image segmentation, fine-tuned from SAM on 1.57M image-mask pairs across 10 imaging modalities.

Imaging