🧾 Best AI tools for Genomics & DNA models (2026)

DNA language models, sequence-to-function models, variant calling and splicing prediction.

21 tools · 16 open source · each entry links to its website, code and paper.

Dated by release date, else first public paper, preprint or release date; undated tools listed after, A–Z.

Carbon-A

1.2B DNA model that annotates protein-coding genes across eukaryotes; ships a 48K-assembly annotation database.

Genomics & DNA modelsOpen source#genome-annotation#dna-model

SpliceAI2

Illumina's successor to SpliceAI: predicts splice-site usage and full transcript isoforms from sequence.

Genomics & DNA modelsFree (research)#splicing#variant-effect

AlphaGenome

DeepMind model predicting regulatory effects of DNA variants at base resolution.

Genomics & DNA modelsFree (research)#regulatory#variant-effect

Evo 2

Genome language model across all domains of life with 1M-token context.

Genomics & DNA modelsOpen source#dna-lm#foundation-model

Caduceus

Bidirectional, reverse-complement-equivariant DNA language model.

Genomics & DNA modelsOpen source#dna-lm#mamba

Evo

7B genomic foundation model (StripedHyena) for prokaryotic DNA, RNA and protein design at single-nucleotide resolution.

Genomics & DNA modelsOpen source#dna-lm#generative

GPN-MSA

Genomic language model over multi-species alignments for genome-wide variant effect prediction.

Genomics & DNA modelsOpen source#variant-effect#dna-lm

Proteome-wide pathogenicity predictions for 71M missense variants (repo archived; precomputed scores available).

Genomics & DNA modelsOpen source#variant-effect

Borzoi

Predicts RNA-seq coverage from DNA sequence.

Genomics & DNA modelsOpen source#expression#rna-seq

HyenaDNA

Long-range genomic foundation model at single-nucleotide resolution.

Genomics & DNA modelsOpen source#dna-lm#long-context

DNABERT-2

Efficient multi-species genome foundation model.

Genomics & DNA modelsOpen source#dna-lm

PrimateAI-3D

Missense variant pathogenicity model trained on primate population variation and 3D protein structure.

Genomics & DNA modelsOpen source (non-commercial)#variant-effect#pathogenicity

ChromBPNet

Bias-corrected base-resolution deep learning models of ATAC/DNase-seq chromatin accessibility and TF motifs.

Genomics & DNA modelsOpen source#epigenomics#atac-seq

DNA foundation models pretrained on 3,200+ human and 850 species genomes.

Genomics & DNA modelsOpen source (non-commercial)#dna-lm

Sei

Predicts 21,907 chromatin profiles from sequence and maps variants to regulatory sequence classes.

Genomics & DNA modelsOpen source#epigenomics#regulatory

Enformer

Predicts gene expression from sequence with long-range interactions.

Genomics & DNA modelsOpen source#expression#regulatory

EVE

Unsupervised evolutionary VAE for predicting pathogenicity of missense variants.

Genomics & DNA modelsOpen source#variant-effect#vae

BPNet

Base-resolution neural network for TF binding profiles (ChIP-nexus/ChIP-seq) and motif syntax discovery.

Genomics & DNA modelsOpen source#epigenomics#tf-binding

SpliceAI

Deep learning prediction of splicing effects from pre-mRNA sequence (repo archived).

Genomics & DNA modelsOpen source (non-commercial)#splicing#variant

Selene

PyTorch library for training and applying sequence-level deep learning models (DeepSEA-style).

Genomics & DNA modelsOpen source#library#sequence-models

Basenji

Sequence-to-function CNNs predicting chromatin accessibility, histone marks and expression tracks from DNA.

Genomics & DNA modelsOpen source#epigenomics#sequence-to-function