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Google DeepMind's unified DNA sequence foundation model predicting molecular consequences of genetic variants from single-base resolution up to 1 megabase context, jointly outputting thousands of regulatory tracks (RNA expression, splicing, chromatin accessibility, TF binding, contact maps) for human and mouse genomes via a Python client and non-commercial API (2025)

Transformer encoder-decoder for de novo peptide sequencing from tandem mass spectrometry, translating MS/MS spectra directly to peptide sequences without reference databases, enabling identification of novel peptides for immunopeptidomics, antibody repertoires, and metaproteomes (Noble Lab UW, Nature Communications 2024)

Arc Institute's 40B-parameter genome foundation model trained on 9 trillion nucleotides from all domains of life, supporting 1M base pair context for generalist DNA/RNA/protein prediction and design (Nature 2026)

Gene expression prediction

Family of causal genomic foundation models trained on 1T tokens (~6T DNA base pairs) from the Carbon Pretraining Corpus, combining eukaryote genes, mRNA transcripts, and prokaryote genomes with a hybrid text/6-mer tokenizer; Carbon-3B matches or beats Evo2-7B on zero-shot DNA evaluations including sequence recovery, variant effect prediction, and perturbations (Apache 2.0, 201+ stars)

State-of-the-art RNA 3D folding model developed with Stanford Das Lab and Kaggle competition winners, featuring a 488M-parameter AF3-like architecture with MSA and template-based modeling, enabling structure-driven drug discovery and RNA therapeutics design (NVIDIA-Digital-Bio, Apache 2.0)

First architecture deeply integrating a DNA foundation model with an LLM for multimodal biological reasoning, achieving 98% accuracy on KEGG disease pathway prediction and 15%+ average gains on variant effect prediction with interpretable step-by-step reasoning traces (bowang-lab, 390+ stars)

Generalized biological foundation model with unified nucleic acid and protein language, integrating DNA/RNA/protein sequences (Nature Machine Intelligence 2025)

General-purpose RNA language model with 650M parameters pretrained on 36M non-coding RNA sequences, achieving strong generalization on structure prediction tasks including secondary structure prediction, splice-site prediction, mean ribosome loading, and ncRNA classification (lbcb-sci, 165+ stars, Apache-2.0)

Bi-directional DNA language model based on the Mamba state space architecture, enabling efficient long-range genomic sequence modeling with linear-time complexity and built-in reverse-complement equivariance; achieves strong performance on chromatin accessibility, enhancer, and promoter prediction benchmarks (Stanford & UC Berkeley, 500+ stars)

Apache 2.0 single-cell foundation model family scaling to 3B parameters, pretrained on 266M cell profiles including perturbation data and released with training, embedding, and downstream benchmarking workflows for disease-relevant single-cell tasks (2025)

DNA sequence analysis

Efficient foundation model and benchmark for multi-species genome understanding with context-aware nucleotide representations, improving upon DNABERT for diverse genomic task transfer learning (UIUC MAGICS Lab, 484+ stars)

100M-parameter foundation model pretrained on 50M+ human single-cell transcriptomes covering ~20,000 genes, achieving SOTA on gene expression enhancement, drug response and perturbation prediction (Nature Methods 2024)

Teaching Large Language Models the Language of Biology through single-cell transcriptomics (ICML 2024)

Family of codon-resolution language models trained on 130 million protein-coding sequences from over 20,000 species, enabling cross-species gene expression prediction and codon-level functional genomics (2025)

End-to-end RNA 3D structure prediction using RNA language model pretrained on 23.7M sequences, outperforming existing methods and human expert groups on RNA-Puzzles and CASP15 (Nature Methods 2024)

Long-range genomic foundation model using subquadratic Hyena operators instead of Transformer attention, enabling context lengths up to 1 million nucleotides for chromosome-scale DNA sequence modeling and downstream genomics tasks (Stanford Hazy Research, NeurIPS 2023, 784+ stars, Apache 2.0)