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Mar 16 - Mar 22, 2026

Benchmarks & Datasets

• 1000 Genomes Project — Reference panel of human genetic variation from 2,504 individuals across 26 populations.

• BACE — Binary classification and regression dataset for β-secretase 1 (BACE-1) inhibitor binding affinity.

• BEAT AML — Functional ex vivo drug sensitivity measurements paired with genomics for acute myeloid leukemia.

• ClinTox — Clinical toxicity dataset contrasting FDA-approved drugs with those that failed clinical trials due to toxicity.

• CPTAC (Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium) — Multi-omic proteogenomic datasets for multiple cancer types linking proteomics with genomics.

• FLIP (Fitness Landscape Inference for Proteins) (⭐117) — Benchmark collection of protein fitness landscape datasets for evaluating protein ML models.

• LINCS L1000 — Gene expression profiles (978 landmark genes) for >20,000 chemical and genetic perturbations across cell lines.

• OGB (Open Graph Benchmark) — Large-scale graph ML benchmark suite including biological datasets such as ogbl-ppa (protein-protein associations) and ogbg-molhiv.

• PharmGKB — Curated pharmacogenomics dataset linking genetic variants to drug response phenotypes across thousands of drugs.

• PRISM — Cancer drug sensitivity profiling of >4,500 drugs across >900 cancer cell lines using pooled-cell-line barcoding.

• ProteinGym (⭐395) — Large-scale benchmark of deep mutational scanning assays for evaluating protein fitness landscape models.

• QM9 — Quantum chemistry properties for 134K stable small organic molecules computed at DFT level.

• scIB (Single-cell Integration Benchmarks) (⭐408) — Comprehensive benchmarking framework for single-cell data integration methods.

• SIDER (Side Effect Resource) — Database of 1,430 approved drugs with their recorded adverse drug reactions across 27 system-organ classes.

• Tabula Muris — Comprehensive single-cell atlas of 20 mouse organs and tissues, enabling cross-tissue and cross-species comparisons.

• Tabula Sapiens — Comprehensive human single-cell atlas of ~500K cells from 24 organs and tissues across multiple donors.

• TAPE (Tasks Assessing Protein Embeddings) (⭐733) — Benchmark suite of five biologically meaningful semi-supervised learning tasks for evaluating protein representations.

• The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) — Comprehensive multi-omics (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, methylation) dataset for 33 cancer types across ~11,000 patients.

• Tox21 — 12,707 compounds tested in 12 nuclear receptor and stress-response pathway biochemical assays for toxicity prediction.

• UK Biobank — Large-scale biomedical database of ~500K participants with genetic, imaging, and health data for population genetics and disease studies.

Preprocessing Tools

• scVelo (⭐490) — RNA velocity estimation for single-cell transcriptomics, inferring the direction and speed of cell differentiation.

Drug Response Prediction

• RECOVER (⭐24) — Machine learning framework for predicting synergistic drug combination responses across cell lines.

Molecular Generation

• DiffDock (⭐1.5k) — Diffusion generative model for molecular docking, predicting the binding pose of small molecules to protein targets.

LLM for Biology

• BioMedLM — 2.7B parameter GPT-2-style language model trained exclusively on biomedical literature from PubMed for biomedical question answering and text generation.

Single-cell Foundation Models / Transcriptomics Foundation Models

• UCE (⭐246) — Universal Cell Embeddings: zero-shot single-cell embedding model trained on 36M cells across species, tissues, and assays without fine-tuning.

• GEARS (⭐342) — Graph-based model for predicting transcriptional responses to single and combinatorial genetic perturbations using biological priors.

Protein Foundation Models / Protein Structure Prediction and Design

• OpenFold (⭐3.3k) — Trainable, memory-efficient open-source reproduction of AlphaFold2 enabling custom protein structure prediction workflows.

• SaProt — Structure-aware protein language model using structure-aware tokens that encode both sequence and backbone geometry for improved function prediction.

• EvoDiff (⭐664) — Discrete diffusion framework for protein sequence generation trained on evolutionary-scale data, supporting unconditional generation, disordered region design, and functional motif scaffolding. [ paper-2023 ]

Genomics Foundation Models / Protein Structure Prediction and Design

• Borzoi (⭐228) — Extended successor to Enformer for predicting RNA-seq coverage from long genomic sequence windows (524 kb) with improved resolution.

Mar 09 - Mar 15, 2026

scRNA

• CZ CELLxGENE — Single-cell dataset repository and interactive explorer from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

• Human Cell Atlas — Open global atlas of all cells in the human body.

Compound

• HMDB (Human Metabolome Database) — Comprehensive database of small molecule metabolites found in the human body.

• DrugCentral — Online drug compendium with drug mode of action and indication information.

Protein

• SAbDab — Structural Antibody Database containing all antibody structures in the PDB.

• OADB (Observed Antibody Space Database) — Database of antibody sequences from immune repertoire sequencing.

Genome

• ENCODE — Encyclopedia of DNA Elements; regulatory and functional genomic elements across the genome.

• Ensembl — Genome browser and annotation database for vertebrate and other eukaryotic genomes.

• gnomAD — Genome Aggregation Database; genetic variation from large-scale sequencing projects.

• Rfam — Database of RNA families with sequence alignments and consensus structures.

Disease

• DisGeNET — Database of gene-disease associations integrating expert-curated and GWAS data.

• OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man) — Comprehensive database of human genes and genetic disorders.

Protein-Protein Interaction

• IntAct — Open-source molecular interaction database and analysis system from EMBL-EBI.

Benchmarks & Datasets

• BindingDB Curated Sets — Curated binding affinity datasets for protein–ligand interaction benchmarking.

• Cancer Therapeutics Response Portal (CTRP) — Drug sensitivity profiles across ~900 cancer cell lines for >400 compounds.

• GuacaMol (⭐500) — Benchmark suite for generative molecular design models.

• MOSES (⭐957) — Benchmarking platform for molecular generation models.

• Therapeutics Data Commons (TDC) — Unified benchmark suite covering ADMET, drug-target interaction, drug response, and more.

Preprocessing Tools

• Biopython — Collection of Python tools for biological computation including sequence analysis, structure parsing, and database access.

• DeepChem (⭐6.6k) — Deep learning library for drug discovery, quantum chemistry, and materials science.

• scvi-tools — Probabilistic models for single-cell omics data analysis.

• CellTypist (⭐457) — Automated cell type annotation for scRNA-seq.

• GROMACS — Molecular dynamics simulation package for biochemical molecules.

• MDAnalysis — Python library for analyzing and altering molecular dynamics simulation trajectories.

• OpenMM — High-performance toolkit for molecular simulation and GPU-accelerated MD.

Molecular Generation

• REINVENT (⭐370) — Reinforcement learning for de novo drug design.

• MolGPT (⭐169) — Transformer-based model for molecular generation.

• Molecular Transformer (⭐413) — Sequence-to-sequence model for retrosynthesis prediction.

• TargetDiff (⭐323) — 3D equivariant diffusion model for structure-based drug design.

LLM for Biology

• ClawBio (⭐106) — Bioinformatics-native AI agent skill library with local-first pharmacogenomics, ancestry PCA, semantic similarity, nutrigenomics, and metagenomics skills.

Single-cell Foundation Models / Transcriptomics Foundation Models

• Geneformer — Context-aware, attention-based deep learning model pretrained on a large corpus of single-cell transcriptomes.

• scBERT (⭐347) — BERT-based foundation model pretrained on large-scale scRNA-seq data for cell type annotation.

• CellPLM (⭐101) — Cell pre-trained language model with inter-cell transformer architecture for diverse single-cell analysis tasks.

Single-cell Foundation Models / Spatial Foundation Models

• GigaPath (⭐578) — Slide-level digital pathology foundation model pretrained on 1.3 billion pathology image tokens from whole-slide images.

• UNI (⭐681) — General-purpose self-supervised pathology foundation model trained on 100K+ whole-slide images for diverse computational pathology tasks.

• CONCH (⭐472) — Vision-language foundation model for computational pathology trained with contrastive captioning on pathology image–text pairs.

• Phikon — ViT-based pathology foundation model pretrained with iBOT self-supervision on TCGA whole-slide images.

Single-cell Foundation Models / Multi-Omics Foundation Models

• scMulan (⭐62) — Single-cell multi-omic language model pretrained on ~10M cells spanning transcriptomics, epigenomics, and proteomics for cross-omics transfer tasks.

• totalVI (⭐1.6k) — Probabilistic framework for joint analysis of paired scRNA-seq and protein (CITE-seq) data enabling multi-modal cell state representation across single-cell datasets.

• MultiVI (⭐1.6k) — Multi-modal variational autoencoder for integrating paired and unpaired single-cell RNA-seq and ATAC-seq measurements into a unified latent space.

• MIRA (⭐67) — Probabilistic multimodal topic model jointly modeling single-cell transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility for regulatory network inference.

• GLUE (⭐455) — Graph-Linked Unified Embedding framework for unpaired single-cell multi-omics data integration across RNA, ATAC, methylation, and protein modalities.

• BABEL (⭐47) — Cross-modality translation model enabling prediction between scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq profiles without requiring paired single-cell measurements.

• Multigrate (⭐31) — Asymmetric multi-omics variational autoencoder for integrating single-cell data across RNA, ATAC, and protein modalities with missing-modality support.

• MOFA+ (⭐384) — Multi-Omics Factor Analysis framework identifying shared axes of variation across bulk and single-cell datasets including RNA, ATAC, proteomics, methylation, and copy number.

• GeneCompass (⭐111) — Large-scale foundation model integrating DNA regulatory sequences and single-cell transcriptomics from 120M+ cells across multiple species for gene regulation prediction.

• UnitedNet (⭐52) — Interpretable multi-task deep neural network for single-cell multi-omics integration spanning transcriptomics, chromatin accessibility, and proteomics.

• SpatialGlue — Graph attention network for spatial multi-omics integration jointly embedding spatial transcriptomics with chromatin accessibility or proteomics.

• MIDAS (⭐62) — Mosaic integration and differential accessibility model for single-cell multi-omics data that handles arbitrary missing-modality combinations across transcriptomics, chromatin accessibility, and proteomics.

Single-cell Foundation Models / Domain Alignment

• scArches (⭐399) — Transfer learning framework for mapping new single-cell datasets onto pre-trained reference atlases across batches, conditions, and modalities.

• TOSICA — Transformer-based framework for one-stop interpretable cell-type annotation supporting cross-dataset and cross-species transfer.

Protein Foundation Models / Protein Structure Prediction and Design

• AlphaFold3 (⭐7.7k) — Predicts structures of proteins, nucleic acids, small molecules, and their complexes.

• Boltz-1 (⭐3.8k) — Open-source all-atom biomolecular structure prediction model for proteins, nucleic acids, small molecules, and their complexes achieving AlphaFold3-level accuracy.

• Chai-1 (⭐1.9k) — Unified molecular structure prediction model covering proteins, nucleic acids, small molecules, and complexes.

• ESM3 (⭐2.3k) — Multimodal protein language model that jointly reasons over sequence, structure, and function for generative protein design and engineering.

• ESMFold (⭐4k) — Fast protein structure prediction using language model embeddings.

• RFdiffusion (⭐2.8k) — Generative model for protein backbone design using diffusion.

• ProteinMPNN (⭐1.6k) — Deep learning model for protein sequence design given backbone structure.

• OmegaFold (⭐613) — High-resolution de novo protein structure prediction from sequence.

• RoseTTAFold (⭐2.2k) — Three-track neural network for protein structure prediction.

Multi-Modal Foundation Models / Protein Structure Prediction and Design

• CHIEF (⭐688) — Clinical Histopathology Imaging Evaluation Foundation model integrating histology images and clinical context for pan-cancer analysis.

• BiomedCLIP — CLIP-based vision-language foundation model for biomedical images and text trained on PubMed figure–caption pairs.

Genomics Foundation Models / Protein Structure Prediction and Design

• Nucleotide Transformer (⭐831) — Foundation model for genomic sequences across multiple species.

• DNABERT (⭐744) — Pre-trained bidirectional encoder for DNA sequence analysis.

• DNABERT-2 (⭐460) — Improved genome foundation model with efficient tokenization.

• Enformer (⭐15k) — Transformer model predicting gene expression from DNA sequence.

• Basenji (⭐466) — Sequential regulatory activity prediction from DNA sequences.

• Caduceus (⭐226) — Bidirectional equivariant long-range DNA sequence model based on Mamba.

• Evo (⭐1.5k) — Long-context genomic foundation model (up to 1M tokens).

• HyenaDNA (⭐764) — Long-range genomic foundation model handling sequences up to 1M tokens with sub-quadratic attention.

Feb 09 - Feb 15, 2026

Pathway

• Reactome — Expert-curated, peer-reviewed pathway database with detailed reaction mechanisms.

• BioCyc — Collection of pathway/genome databases across thousands of organisms.

• SIGNOR — Database of causal signaling interactions and pathways.

• MSigDB (Molecular Signatures Database) — Curated gene sets derived from pathways and biological processes.

Protein

• PROTEIN DATA BANK (PDB) — 3D structures of proteins, nucleic acids, complexes.

• RCSB Protein Data Bank — Repository for structural data of biological molecules.

Disease

• DrugBank — Database of drugs and targets (University of Alberta).

Drug-Gene Interaction

• Comparative Toxicogenomics Database — Chemical-gene interactions, chemical-disease and gene-disease associations, chemical-phenotype associations.

• SNAP — Dataset of drug-gene interactions.

Benchmarks & Datasets

• Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer (GDSC) — Drug sensitivity for ~1000 human cancer cell lines and hundreds of compounds.

• CrossDocked2020 — Large-scale dataset for structure-based virtual screening.

• OpenBioLink (⭐158) — Benchmark datasets for biological knowledge graph completion.

Drug (Cell Line) Response

• Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia — Database of ~1000 cancer cell lines.

• CellMiner Cross Database (CellMinerCDB) — Integrates multiple cancer cell line databases.

Chemical-Protein Interaction

• BindingDB — Compounds and target database.

• PDBBind — Binding affinity data for biomolecular complexes.

Protein-Protein Interaction

• BioGRID — Protein, genetic, and chemical interactions.

• HIPPIE — Human protein-protein interaction database.

Knowledge Graph

• DRKG (⭐671) — Large-scale biological knowledge graph for drug discovery.

• Hetionet (⭐343) — Heterogeneous network integrating genes, diseases, drugs, pathways, and more.

• PrimeKG (⭐706) — Multi-modal precision medicine knowledge graph integrating clinical, genetic, and drug data.

API

• PubMed E-utilities (esearch/efetch) — APIs for searching and retrieving biomedical literature from PubMed.

• NCBI E-utilities — Unified APIs for accessing NCBI databases (Gene, GEO, SRA, PubChem, etc).

• UniProt REST API — Programmatic access to protein sequence and functional annotation data.

• Ensembl REST API — API for genomic annotations, variants, genes, and comparative genomics.

• KEGG REST API — API for accessing KEGG pathways, compounds, genes, and reactions.

• ChEMBL Web Services — REST API for bioactive molecules, targets, and bioassays.

• Open Targets Platform API — API for target–disease associations integrating genetics, genomics, and drug data.

• ClinicalTrials.gov API — API for querying clinical trial metadata and results.

Drug Target Interaction

• DTINet (⭐185) — Network-based framework integrating heterogeneous biological data for DTI prediction.

• DeepDTA (⭐293) — Deep learning model using CNNs on protein sequences and drug SMILES.

• GraphDTA (⭐293) — Graph neural network–based DTI prediction using molecular graphs.

• MolTrans (⭐225) — Transformer-based DTI model leveraging molecular substructures.

• DrugBAN (⭐138) — Bilinear attention network for interpretable DTI prediction.

Protein Foundation Models / Pre-trained Embedding

• Evolutionary Scale Modeling (ESM) (⭐4k) — Protein embeddings.

Jan 12 - Jan 18, 2026

Preprocessing Tools

• ChatSpatial (⭐18) — MCP server for spatial transcriptomics analysis via natural language.

Single-cell Foundation Models / Transcriptomics Foundation Models

• scFoundation (⭐392) — Large-scale foundation model for single-cell gene expression, enabling multiple downstream tasks.

• scGPT (⭐1.5k) — Transformer-based foundation model pretrained on millions of single-cell profiles.

• BulkFormer (⭐42) — Foundation model for bulk RNA-seq data; learns general transcriptomic representations.

Jan 05 - Jan 11, 2026

Preprocessing Tools

• FlashDeconv (⭐13) — High-performance spatial transcriptomics deconvolution (~1M spots in ~3 min).

• Squidpy — Python library for spatial single-cell analysis.

Nov 11 - Nov 17, 2024

Drug Response Prediction

• MOFGCN (⭐6) — GCN + heterogeneous network.

• DeepDSC — Autoencoder + fully connected NN.

• DGDRP (⭐0) — Multi-view embedding neural network.

• DeepAEG (⭐3) — GNN embedding + attention mechanism.

Aug 26 - Sep 01, 2024

Compound

• ZINC ligand discovery database — Free database of commercially-available compounds for virtual screening.

Protein

• Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP) — Assessing methods for protein structure prediction.

• Uniclust — Clustered protein sequence databases.

• CATH database — Hierarchical classification of protein domain structures.

Genome

• 10x Genomics Dataset — Collection of single-cell datasets.

• The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) — Human gene expression and regulation resource.

• Dependency Map (DepMap) — CRISPR-Cas9 screens in cancer cell lines.

• Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer (COSMIC) — Resource on somatic mutations in cancers.

• MGnify — Resource for metagenomic and metatranscriptomic data.

• JASPAR — Database of transcription factor binding profiles.

Clinical Trial

• ClinicalTrials.gov — Privately and publicly funded clinical studies.

• ICD10 — International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision.

• EU Drug Regulating Authorities Clinical Trials DB (EudraCT) — European clinical trial database.

• MIMIC-IV — Freely accessible critical care database.

Benchmarks & Datasets

• MoleculeNet — Benchmark datasets for molecular machine learning.

Aug 05 - Aug 11, 2024

Compound

• Therapeutic Target Database — Drug-target, target-disease, and drug-disease datasets.

LLM for Biology

• scPRINT (⭐142) — Pretrained on 50M cells for scRNA-seq denoising & zero imputation.

Jul 15 - Jul 21, 2024

Knowledge Graph

• Drug Mechanism Database (DrugMechDB) (⭐69) — Mechanisms of action from drug to disease.

Drug Response Prediction

• drGAT (⭐1) — Attention-based model for drug response prediction with gene explainability.

LLM for Biology

• GeneGPT (⭐423) — LLM for biomedical information, integrated with various APIs.

• GenePT (⭐310) — Foundation LLM for single-cell data.

Mar 11 - Mar 17, 2024

LLM for Biology

• AI4Chem/ChemLLM-7B-Chat — LLM for chemical & molecular science.

• BioGPT (⭐4.5k) — LLM for biomedical text generation.

Protein Foundation Models / Pre-trained Embedding

• ChemBERTa-2 (⭐487) — Chemical embeddings & prediction.

Nov 27 - Dec 03, 2023

Compound

• Drug Repurposing Hub — Collections of drug repurposing data (drug, MoA, target, etc).

Protein

• AlphaFold Protein Structure Database — 3D protein structure predictions.

Protein-Protein Interaction

• STRING — PPI networks for multiple organisms.

Sep 04 - Sep 10, 2023

Compound

• Rhea — Database of chemical reactions.

Jun 12 - Jun 18, 2023

scRNA

• Single Cell Expression Atlas — Public database for single-cell RNA.

Pathway

• PathwayCommons — Database of pathways and interactions.

Genome

• cBioPortal — Cancer genomics database; aggregating many patient datasets.

Preprocessing Tools

• Scanpy — Python library for scRNA-seq analysis.

• Seurat — R library for scRNA-seq analysis.

Apr 17 - Apr 23, 2023

scRNA

• Gene Expression Omnibus — Public functional genomics database.

• Single Cell PORTAL — Public database for single-cell RNA.

Dec 26 - Jan 01, 2022

Benchmarks & Datasets

• NCI60 — Drug sensitivity benchmark across 60 diverse human cancer cell lines.

May 16 - May 22, 2022

Compound

• ChEBI — Database focused on small chemical compounds.

May 09 - May 15, 2022

Compound

• PubChem — One of the largest chemical databases (compounds, genes, and proteins).

• ChEMBL — Bioactive molecules with drug-like properties.

• ChemSpider — Chemical structure database.

• KEGG COMPOUND — Collection of small molecules and biopolymers.

• LIPID MAPS — Database of lipids.

Pathway

• KEGG PATHWAY — Collection of pathway maps.

• WikiPathways — Database of biological pathways.

Mass Spectra

• MassBank — Open source databases and tools for mass spectrometry reference spectra.

• MoNA MassBank of North America — Meta-database of metabolite mass spectra, metadata, and associated compounds.

Protein

• THE HUMAN PROTEIN ATLAS — Comprehensive human protein database (cells, tissues, organs).

• UniProt — Functional information on proteins.

Genome

• Human Genome Resources at NCBI — Database for genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, and systems biology.

• GenBank — NCBI's database of genetic sequences.

• UCSC Genome Browser — UCSC's genome browser.

Disease

• KEGG DRUG — Comprehensive, approved drug information.

Preprocessing Tools

• Chemistry Development Kit (⭐571) — Cheminformatics software & machine learning tools.

• RDKit (⭐3.3k) — Cheminformatics software & machine learning toolkit.

Drug Repurposing

• DeepPurpose (⭐1.1k) — Deep learning library for drug repurposing.

Drug Target Interaction

• NeoDTI (⭐77) — Library for drug-target interaction prediction.

Compound-Protein Interaction

• MCPINN (⭐3) — Drug discovery via compound-protein interaction and machine learning.

• TransformerCPI (⭐153) — CPI prediction using Transformer.

Feb 21 - Feb 27, 2022

Drug-Gene Interaction

• DGIdb — Drug-gene interactions and the druggable genome.

Chemical-Protein Interaction

• STITCH — Chemical-protein interactions.