#Foundation Models

3 posts tagged with "Foundation Models"

EDEN: 28 Billion Parameters for Programming Biology

2026-01-28T14:00:00Z•16 min read

#foundation models #computational biology #gene therapy #metagenomics #drug discovery #eden #basecamp research

Basecamp Research's EDEN model trains on proprietary environmental metagenomics to design gene-insertion enzymes, antimicrobial peptides, and synthetic microbiomes -- all validated in the wet lab.

A Bioinformatician's Guide to Choosing Genomic Foundation Models

2026-01-19T10:30:00Z•22 min read

#foundation models #genomics #bioinformatics #deep learning #protein language models #dna models #esm-2 #dnabert-2 #hyenadna #scgpt

A practical guide to selecting genomic foundation models for bioinformatics tasks. Covers ESM-2, DNABERT-2, HyenaDNA, Nucleotide Transformer, scGPT, and Evo with specific recommendations for DNA sequence analysis, protein structure prediction, and single-cell analysis based on hardware requirements, inference speed, and task type.

Foundation Models Are Rewriting the Rules of Biology

2024-10-30T11:35:02Z•24 min read

#ai #machine learning #biology #bioinformatics #foundation models #alphafold #drug discovery #dark matter biology #rna #benchmarks #metagenomics

Foundation models trained on biological data are transforming protein structure prediction, genomics, drug discovery, and pathology. Learn how machine learning benchmarks in 2024 are revealing biology's dark matter through RNA analysis and metagenomic discovery.