A public research university in Seattle whose schools of medicine, engineering, and computing drive genomics, protein design, and medical AI.
A computational protein design lab at the University of Washington, creating software and new proteins for challenges in medicine and sustainability.
4 models
A University of Washington institute creating proteins from scratch, with computational design methods for therapeutics, vaccines, and nanomaterials.
20 models
A campus of the University of Washington north of Seattle, built around experiential learning, undergraduate research, and computing systems.
2 models
Distilled whole-slide pathology foundation model pairing a 22M-parameter ViT-S tile encoder with a LongNet slide encoder for cohort-scale analysis.
Spatial proteomics prediction from routine H&E slides, generating 21-channel virtual multiplex immunofluorescence maps of the tumor microenvironment.
Multi-sequence spine MRI foundation model with DINOv3 encoders, supporting condition classification, pathology localization, and report generation.
Gene regulation model that conditions a pretrained DNA sequence embedding on CpG methylation to capture cell-type and allele-specific regulation.
Institute for Protein Design / University of Washington
Released June 4, 2026
Diffusion-based backbone generation and sequence design method for programmable asymmetric transmembrane beta-barrel nanopores.
Peptide ranking for targeted mass spectrometry, ordering a protein's precursors by expected DIA response to guide SRM and PRM assay design.
Discrete diffusion model for conditional antibody sequence design with germline-absorbing noising that focuses learning on somatic variation.
Liquid-biopsy deep learning model that infers transcriptome-wide tumor gene expression from standard-depth cell-free DNA whole-genome sequencing.
All-atom protein design diffusion model conditioned on ligands, nucleic acids, and other non-protein atoms, supporting enzyme and DNA binder design.
Atom-level diffusion model for de novo enzyme design that scaffolds arbitrary active-site geometries without specifying catalytic residue positions.
Gene expression prediction model combining DNA sequence with Hi-C contact maps to capture 3D chromatin looping behind cell-type-specific expression.
Multimodal foundation model that distills Evo 2 into a compact encoder guided by Hi-C data, predicting cell-type-specific 3D genome architecture.
Institute for Protein Design / University of Washington / Rice University
Released October 4, 2025
Nucleic acid inverse-folding network that designs RNA sequences for a target 3D backbone and predicts protein-DNA binding specificity.
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.
MIT / Harvard Medical School / University of Texas at Austin / University of Washington
Released September 4, 2025
Multimodal diffusion transformer for de novo protein design, jointly generating sequence and structure conditioned on 465 Gene Ontology functions.
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.
Pacific Lutheran University / Anhui University / Hamilton College / Saint Louis University / University of Washington Bothell
Released June 26, 2025
Protein complex model quality assessment via DockQ-guided graph contrastive learning. CASP16 TMscore ranking loss of 0.123 versus 0.138 runner-up.
Temple University / University of Southern California / University of Washington / Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Released April 3, 2025
Hi-C resolution enhancement model combining a U²-Net with self-attention to recover TAD boundaries and chromatin loops from sparse contact maps.
Shanghai AI Laboratory / Fuzhou University / Shanghai Innovation Institute / Fudan University / Monash University / University of Washington / Stanford University
Released April 2, 2025
General medical vision-language model trained with reinforcement learning to reason step by step over medical images for diagnosis and visual QA.
Protein sequence design model that represents small molecules, nucleotides, and metals at atomic resolution, enabling ligand-aware enzyme design.
Stanford University / University of Washington / University of Oxford / Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine / Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
Released February 26, 2025
Predicts haplotype-specific 3D genome organization and Hi-C contact maps from a single long-read Fiber-seq assay, using no DNA sequence as input.
International Digital Economy Academy / XtalPi / University of Washington
Released February 21, 2025
Protein-ligand affinity foundation model that embeds pockets and ligands in one space, unifying virtual screening with hit-to-lead optimization.
University of Washington / Broad Institute / Harvard University / Heidelberg University
Released January 27, 2025
Base-pair resolution sequence-to-activity CNN predicting ATAC-seq Tn5 insertion profiles and accessibility across 90 mouse immune cell types.
Liquid-liquid phase separation predictor that scores proteins and residues from sequence and designs phase-separating peptides by gradient descent.
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.
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.
Profluent / University of Washington / Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School / Harvard University
Released January 6, 2025
CRISPR-Cas PAM specificity prediction directly from Cas protein sequence, plus computational evolution of Cas9 variants toward a chosen PAM.
MIT / University of Washington / University of Tokyo / Northwestern University
Released December 22, 2024
Structure-to-sequence protein design network inverting trRosetta, predicting coevolution features from a backbone to generate stable sequences.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center / University of Texas at Austin / Karolinska Institutet / Cleveland Clinic / National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases / Griffith University / University of Washington / Vanderbilt University
Released December 20, 2024
Protein language model that generates paired heavy and light chain human antibodies from an antigen prompt, with binders validated in vitro.
Hi-C foundation model pretrained on 118 million contact submatrices, fine-tuned for loop detection, resolution enhancement and epigenomic prediction.
Peking University / International Digital Economy Academy / Sichuan University / University of Washington
Released December 7, 2024
SMILES language model pretrained by editing: substructures are dropped and restored, giving fragment-level supervision for property prediction.
Tsinghua University / University of Washington / MIT / University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign / ByteDance / Helixon Research
Released November 26, 2024
Target-conditioned peptide binder design model that samples hot-spot residues from an energy-based density, then extends fragments autoregressively.
Pacific Lutheran University / Anhui University / Hamilton College / Saint Louis University / University of Washington Bothell
Released November 18, 2024
Protein function prediction from 3D structure and sequence, assigning Gene Ontology terms with an ensemble built around rare long-tail terms.
Institute for Protein Design / University of Washington / Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Tufts University / University College Cork / MIT / Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf / Forschungszentrum Jülich
Released November 18, 2024
Macrocyclic peptide binder design against protein targets, cyclizing a diffusion backbone generator's positional encoding so it closes rings.
Enable Medicine / Stanford University / University of Tübingen / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center / University of Washington / Ochsner Health / University of Chicago
Released November 11, 2024
Virtual multiplex immunofluorescence staining from H&E histopathology, imputing the expression and spatial localization of 50 protein biomarkers.
McGill University / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Mila / Université de Montréal / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Institute for Protein Design / Yale University / Northeastern University / Broad Institute / MIT / Google DeepMind
Released November 10, 2024
De novo enzyme design conditioned on the reaction to be catalysed: substrate and product SMILES in, catalytic pocket, enzyme, and docked complex out.
Microsoft Research AI for Science / University of Washington / Tsinghua University / Beijing Normal University
Released October 27, 2024
Single-cell model that ranks the genes driving a cell state transition, using a gene graph-enhanced manifold pretrained on 20 million cells.
Microsoft / Microsoft Research / University of Wisconsin-Madison / University of Washington
Released October 9, 2024
Medical imaging embedding model spanning X-ray, CT, MRI, dermoscopy, OCT, fundus, ultrasound, histopathology and mammography in one encoder.
McGill University / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Mila / Université de Montréal / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Institute for Protein Design / Microsoft Research / Google DeepMind
Released October 1, 2024
Enzyme catalytic pocket design conditioned on a reaction: substrate and product in, pocket backbone, sequence, and EC class out.
University of Washington / Institute for Protein Design / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center / Yale University / MIT
Released July 9, 2024
Structure-based mutational effect prediction from local atomic environments, scoring how substitutions change protein stability and binding affinity.
University of Washington / Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital / University of Geneva / Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research / Recursion Pharmaceuticals
Released March 17, 2024
Bulk tumor transcriptome model ensembling hundreds of variational autoencoders into interpretable cancer-specific latent spaces for 18 cancers.
Deep network that predicts structures of full biological assemblies: proteins, nucleic acids, small molecules, metals, and covalent modifications.
De novo protein design diffusion model that generates backbone structures conditioned on binding targets, symmetry constraints, and functional motifs.
Institute for Protein Design / University of Washington / Seoul National University / UT Southwestern Medical Center / Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Released May 25, 2023
Protein structure prediction for monomers and complexes in one three-track network, scaling past 1000 residues without triangle attention.
AlphaFold fine-tuned on peptide-MHC and protein-peptide binding data for specificity prediction across MHC class I/II, PDZ, and SH3 domains.
Institute for Protein Design / University of Washington / MIT / University College Cork
Released February 26, 2023
Cyclic peptide structure prediction and de novo macrocycle design, by wrapping a frozen structure predictor's positional encoding into a ring.
Message passing neural network for fixed-backbone protein sequence design. Achieves 52.4% native sequence recovery, far surpassing Rosetta's 32.9%.
Institute for Protein Design / University of Washington / Seoul National University / UC Berkeley / Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Released September 10, 2022
Protein-nucleic acid complex structure prediction from sequence, folding protein, DNA and RNA chains in one network with confidence estimates.
Structure accuracy estimation over atom graphs, scoring macrocyclic peptide and protein-DNA models that residue-level predictors cannot represent.
Full-atom protein model accuracy estimation, regressing per-atom lDDT with an SE(3)-transformer over a heavy-atom graph of the modeled structure.
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.
Institute for Protein Design / University of Washington / Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Released July 17, 2020
Protein model accuracy estimation predicting per-residue lDDT plus signed residue-pair distance errors that become Rosetta refinement restraints.