Who is Ankh Base for?

Ankh Base is an open-source project built for bioinformatics researchers and biologists.

Does Ankh Base have a free plan?

Yes — Ankh Base is open source under the Open Source license and free to use.

What platforms does Ankh Base run on?

Ankh Base runs on the web and API.

Is Ankh Base still maintained?

Unverified. Ankh Base has not been re-checked since it entered the index, so there is no finding either way — and only a positive finding would say otherwise.

What projects are similar to Ankh Base?

Similar projects tracked by PulseGate include Ouro 1.4B, Bge Reranker V2 M3 Ko, and Qwen 72B.

Ankh Base is developed by ElnaggarLab.

When did Ankh Base launch?

Ankh Base first shipped in 2022.

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Ankh Base

Name: Ankh Base
Author: ElnaggarLab

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ElnaggarLab/ankh-base is a T5 encoder-decoder model pretrained on protein sequences. It is designed for various biology and protein-related tasks including representation learning, property prediction, and sequence generation. The model is available through the Hugging Face Transformers library and has been cited in scientific literature for its contributions to computational biology.

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Overview

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In the Foundation models & chat space, Ankh Base takes a focused approach. It focuses on understanding and generating protein sequences using transformer-based language models. It is built as an open-source project for bioinformatics researchers and biologists. Ankh Base is open source under the Open Source license. It ships for the web and API.

Behind Ankh Base is ElnaggarLab, and it first shipped in 2022.

Summary written by a language model from the project’s public pages.

Protein Modeling
Text-to-Text Generation

Built with & integrations

Hosting

AWS

AI providers

local_oss

Runs on

BrowserAPI-only

Detected from

AWS: x-amz-cf-id header · x-amz-cf-pop header · via header
local_oss: text-generation- in the HTML

Trust & compliance

License

Open Source

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Indexing history

What PulseGate has recorded for this listing

Indexed19 Jul · 20:51 UTC
ElnaggarLab/ankh-base verified against its public source
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Frequently asked questions about Ankh Base

What is Ankh Base?: Ankh Base focuses on understanding and generating protein sequences using transformer-based language models. It is catalogued under Foundation models & chat on PulseGate.
Who is Ankh Base for?: Ankh Base is an open-source project built for bioinformatics researchers and biologists.
Does Ankh Base have a free plan?: Yes — Ankh Base is open source under the Open Source license and free to use.
What platforms does Ankh Base run on?: Ankh Base runs on the web and API.
Is Ankh Base still maintained?: Unverified. Ankh Base has not been re-checked since it entered the index, so there is no finding either way — and only a positive finding would say otherwise.
What projects are similar to Ankh Base?: Similar projects tracked by PulseGate include Ouro 1.4B, Bge Reranker V2 M3 Ko, and Qwen 72B.Ouro 1.4B Bge Reranker V2 M3 Ko Qwen 72B
Who makes Ankh Base?: Ankh Base is developed by ElnaggarLab.
When did Ankh Base launch?: Ankh Base first shipped in 2022.

At a glance

Pricing: Open Source
Platforms: Web
Languages: English
License: Open Source
Built for: bioinformatics researchers and biologists
Model: Open source
Solves: Understanding and generating protein sequences using transformer-based language models.

Registered as

Hugging Face: ElnaggarLab/ankh-base

Developer

ElnaggarLab

Live coverage

Identity confidence: Medium · 70.4
Indexed: 19 Jul 2026
Lifecycle: Unverified
Last seen: 19 Jul 2026

Identity audit (12)

Slug: elnaggarlab-ankh-base-huggingface-co
Verification state: Indexed for public listing
Listing state: Listed: yes
Index status: Included in index
Latest evidence snapshot: 19 Jul 2026
Timeline basis: Indexed-at chronology. This listing's first-seen date was written by the catalog backfill, not observed here, so it is not treated as a sighting.
Name from: Derived from the project's own page and URL.
Category from: Derived from the model's own Hugging Face metadata.
Summary from: Written by a language model from public pages.
Languages from: Detected by a language model from page content.
Last updated: 24 Jul 2026
Canonical URL: https://huggingface.co/ElnaggarLab/ankh-base

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