Biological Foundation Models — Researcher Index

Filterable index of foundation models for biological sequences, molecules, structures, omics, cells, and tissue images. Answer fast: what object? · in → out? · accessible today? · what for? Updated 2026-06-20. Access tags are best-effort — always verify the license before commercial use. Click any row for detail.
323models & resources
228open code + weights
62gated / hub weights
5web / API only
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Protein embeddings ESM-C, ESM-2, ProtTrans, Ankh, SaProt, AMPLIFY
Protein variant effect / fitness ESM-1v, Tranception, EVE, PoET, ProteinNPT, Protriever
Protein structure from sequence ESMFold, AlphaFold2, OpenFold, OmegaFold
Protein / binder design ProteinMPNN, LigandMPNN, RFdiffusion, RFdiffusion2, Chai-2
De novo protein generation ESM3, ProGen2, Chroma, DPLM, EvoDiff, Genie 2
Antibody modeling IgLM, AntiBERTy, AbLang, BALM, p-IgGen, IgFold, AntiFold
Long genomic DNA modeling HyenaDNA, Caduceus, Nucleotide Transformer, Evo 2
Regulatory genomics / variant effect Enformer, Borzoi, AlphaGenome, Sei, Evo 2, GPN-MSA
RNA sequence / function RNA-FM, RiNALMo, ERNIE-RNA, Orthrus, UTR-LM
RNA structure (3D) RhoFold+, trRosettaRNA, DRfold, RoseTTAFoldNA
Single-cell embeddings Geneformer, scGPT, scFoundation, UCE, scPRINT, SCimilarity
Perturbation / virtual cell scGPT, STATE, Tahoe-x1, scFoundation
Pathology / histology (WSI) UNI, Virchow, CONCH, H-optimus, Prov-GigaPath, TITAN
Spatial transcriptomics Nicheformer, scGPT-spatial
Cell imaging / morphology OpenPhenom, SubCell, Cell-DINO
Molecular property / embeddings MoLFormer, Uni-Mol, ChemBERTa, MolCLR, Uni-Mol2
Molecular generation GenMol, SAFE-GPT, MolGPT, MegaMolBART, Megalodon
Biomolecular complexes AlphaFold 3, Chai-1, Boltz, Protenix, RoseTTAFold-AA, HelixFold3
Protein-ligand docking DiffDock, DiffDock-L, Uni-Mol Docking V2, Umol, FlowDock
Unified access layer Helical, CZI Virtual Cells, NVIDIA BioNeMo, AIDO
Benchmarks to evaluate on ProteinGym, BEND, scEval, TDC, Open Problems
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