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Arc Institute

Arc Institute is an independent nonprofit biomedical research organization headquartered in Palo Alto, California, co-founded in 2021 by Silvana Konermann (Executive Director), Patrick Hsu (Core Investigator), and Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison. With 300+ staff ("Arconauts") across 9 core laboratories and 5 technology centers, Arc develops AI foundation models for biology that span DNA, RNA, proteins, and single cells. Its flagship releases include Evo (Science, 2024) and Evo 2 (Nature, 2026) — DNA foundation models trained on trillions of nucleotides at single-nucleotide resolution with up to a 1-megabase context; STATE and Stack single-cell foundation models for cellular perturbation and in-context learning; the Arc Virtual Cell Atlas; the SRAgent LLM agents for bioinformatics; and the BINSEQ binary sequencing format. Models are released under Apache 2.0 on GitHub and Hugging Face, with hosted inference for Evo 2 available through NVIDIA BioNeMo and the NVIDIA build.nvidia.com API. Arc is funded by philanthropic donations from Patrick and John Collison, Vitalik Buterin, the Ron Conway family, Dustin Moskovitz, Daniel Gross, Elad Gil, and other technology benefactors; it does not sell APIs, SaaS, or models commercially.

Arc Institute is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Biomedical Research, Computational Biology, Genomics, DNA Foundation Models, and Foundation Models.

Arc Institute’s developer surface includes tooling, product news, YouTube channel, engineering blog, and 17 more developer resources.

4.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Front door AI 3/6 light Heartbeat 89/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →
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Biomedical ResearchComputational BiologyGenomicsDNA Foundation ModelsFoundation ModelsSingle CellProtein EngineeringEvoEvo 2BioinformaticsNon-ProfitOpen SourceMachine LearningAI for Science

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0
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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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  • Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
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  • Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
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MarketPositionDepthRegistered MCP serverDeclares compatibility
Agent Skills (SKILL.md packages) builds-on 17.2 (thin) - 1
Hugging Face Hub Organisations builds-on 17.2 (thin) - 1

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Security Posture 1

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Arc Institute Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

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Resources

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Company 7

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apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: arc-institute
name: Arc Institute
description: Arc Institute is an independent nonprofit biomedical research organization headquartered in Palo Alto, California,
  co-founded in 2021 by Silvana Konermann (Executive Director), Patrick Hsu (Core Investigator), and Stripe co-founder Patrick
  Collison. With 300+ staff ("Arconauts") across 9 core laboratories and 5 technology centers, Arc develops AI foundation
  models for biology that span DNA, RNA, proteins, and single cells. Its flagship releases include Evo (Science, 2024) and
  Evo 2 (Nature, 2026) — DNA foundation models trained on trillions of nucleotides at single-nucleotide resolution with up
  to a 1-megabase context; STATE and Stack single-cell foundation models for cellular perturbation and in-context learning;
  the Arc Virtual Cell Atlas; the SRAgent LLM agents for bioinformatics; and the BINSEQ binary sequencing format. Models are
  released under Apache 2.0 on GitHub and Hugging Face, with hosted inference for Evo 2 available through NVIDIA BioNeMo and
  the NVIDIA build.nvidia.com API. Arc is funded by philanthropic donations from Patrick and John Collison, Vitalik Buterin,
  the Ron Conway family, Dustin Moskovitz, Daniel Gross, Elad Gil, and other technology benefactors; it does not sell APIs,
  SaaS, or models commercially.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
position: Producing
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/arc-institute.png
tags:
- Biomedical Research
- Computational Biology
- Genomics
- DNA Foundation Models
- Foundation Models
- Single Cell
- Protein Engineering
- Evo
- Evo 2
- Bioinformatics
- Non-Profit
- Open Source
- Machine Learning
- AI for Science
tags_raw:
- Biomedical Research
- Computational Biology
- Genomics
- DNA Foundation Models
- Foundation Models
- Single Cell
- Protein Engineering
- Evo
- Evo 2
- Bioinformatics
- Nonprofit
- Open Source
- Machine Learning
- AI for Science
- Open-Source
- Machine-Learning
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/arc-institute/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-24'
modified: '2026-05-24'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/arc-institute-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://arcinstitute.org
- type: About
  url: https://arcinstitute.org/about
- type: Programs
  url: https://arcinstitute.org/programs
- type: Tools
  url: https://arcinstitute.org/tools
- type: Models
  url: https://arcinstitute.org/model
- type: News
  url: https://arcinstitute.org/news
- type: Publications
  url: https://arcinstitute.org/publications
- type: Careers
  url: https://arcinstitute.org/jobs
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/arcinstitute
- type: HuggingFace
  url: https://huggingface.co/arcinstitute
- type: Evo
  url: https://github.com/evo-design/evo
- type: Evo2
  url: https://github.com/arcinstitute/evo2
- type: HostedAPI
  url: https://build.nvidia.com/arc/evo2-40b
- type: BioNeMo
  url: https://docs.nvidia.com/bionemo-framework/latest/models/evo2.html
- type: Paper
  url: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10176-5
- type: Paper
  url: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado9336
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/arc-institute
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/arcinstitute
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@arcinstitute
- type: Blog
  url: https://arcinstitute.org/news
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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