Carbon (Hugging Face, 2026)
github.com/huggingface/carbonFamily 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)
Sourced from
- Awesome AI for Science — github.com/huggingface/carbon
- GitHub — github.com/huggingface/carbon
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