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Awesome-Flow-Matching-Biology Awesome

A curated collection of papers, tools, and resources accompanying Flow Matching Meets Biology and Life Science: A Survey (arXiv 2025).

Flow matching is an emerging framework for generative modeling. This repository tracks its applications across biology and life sciences.

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📖 If you find these resources helpful, please consider citing our survey (see Citations).

Why Flow Matching for Biology?

Flow Matching (FM) has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for generative modeling, offering a flexible and scalable framework applicable across a wide range of biological domains. By constructing continuous probability trajectories between simple and complex distributions, FM provides an efficient and principled method to model high-dimensional, structured biological data while preserving structural and geometric constraints.

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Overview

Contents

Flow Matching Basics

General FM

Conditional FM

  1. Building normalizing flows with stochastic interpolants ICLR 2023

    Michael S. Albergo, Eric Vanden-Eijnden Paper Code, 2023

  2. Variational flow matching for graph generation NeurIPS 2024

    Floor Eijkelboom, Grigory Bartosh, Christian Andersson Naesseth, Max Welling, Jan-Willem van de Meent Paper, 2024

  3. Flow matching for generative modeling ICLR 2023

    Yaron Lipman, Ricky T. Q. Chen, Heli Ben-Hamu, Maximilian Nickel, Matt Le Paper Code, 2023

  4. Improving and generalizing flow-based generative models with minibatch optimal transport TMLR

    Alexander Tong, Nikolay Malkin, Guillaume Huguet, Yanlei Zhang, Jarrid Rector-Brooks, Kilian Fatras, Guy Wolf, Yoshua Bengio Paper Code, 2024

Rectified FM

  1. Optimal flow matching: Learning straight trajectories in just one step NeurIPS 2024

    Nikita Kornilov, Petr Mokrov, Alexander Gasnikov, Alexander Korotin Paper Code, 2024

  2. Improving and generalizing flow-based generative models with minibatch optimal transport TMLR

    Alexander Tong, Kilian Fatras, Nikolay Malkin, Guillaume Huguet, Yanlei Zhang, Jarrid Rector-Brooks, Guy Wolf, Yoshua Bengio Paper Code, 2023

  3. Improving the training of rectified flows NeurIPS 2024

    Sangyun Lee, Zinan Lin, Giulia Fanti Paper Code, 2024

  4. Flow straight and fast: Learning to generate and transfer data with rectified flow ICLR 2023

    Xingchao Liu, Chengyue Gong, Qiang Liu Paper, 2023

Non-Euclidean FM

  1. Flow matching on general geometries ICLR 2024

    Ricky T. Q. Chen, Yaron Lipman Paper, 2023

  2. α-flow: A unified framework for continuous-state discrete flow matching models preprint

    Cheng Cheng, Jiahao Li, Jianfei Fan, Ge Liu Paper, 2025

  3. Fisher flow matching for generative modeling over discrete data NeurIPS 2024

    Oscar Davis, Samuel Kessler, Mircea Petrache, Ismail Ceylan, Michael Bronstein, Joey Bose Paper Code, 2024

  4. Neural manifold ordinary differential equations NeurIPS 2020

    Aaron Lou, Derek Lim, Isay Katsman, Leo Huang, Qingxuan Jiang, Ser Nam Lim, Christopher M. De Sa Paper , 2020

  5. Riemannian continuous normalizing flows NeurIPS 2020

    Emile Mathieu, Maximilian Nickel Paper, 2020

Discrete FM

CTMC

  1. Discrete flow matching NeurIPS 2024

    Itai Gat, Tal Remez, Neta Shaul, Felix Kreuk, Ricky T. Q. Chen, Gabriel Synnaeve, Yossi Adi, Yaron Lipman Paper Code, 2024

  2. α-flow: A unified framework for continuous-state discrete flow matching models arXiv

    Cheng Cheng, Jiahao Li, Jianfei Fan, Ge Liu Paper , 2025

  3. Fisher flow matching for generative modeling over discrete data NeurIPS 2024

    Oscar Davis, Samuel Kessler, Mircea Petrache, Ismail Ceylan, Michael Bronstein, Joey Bose Paper Code, 2024

  4. Generative flows on discrete state-spaces: Enabling multimodal flows with applications to protein co-design arXiv

    Andrew Campbell, Jason Yim, Regina Barzilay, Tom Rainforth, Tommi Jaakkola Paper, 2024

  5. Defog: Discrete flow matching for graph generation arXiv

    Yiming Qin, Manuel Madeira, Dorina Thanou, Pascal Frossard Paper Code, 2024

  6. Flow matching with general discrete paths: A kinetic-optimal perspective ICLR 2025 Oral

    Neta Shaul, Itai Gat, Marton Havasi, Daniel Severo, Anuroop Sriram, Peter Holderrieth, Brian Karrer, Yaron Lipman, Ricky T. Q. Chen Paper, 2024

Simplex

  1. Dirichlet flow matching with applications to DNA sequence design ICML 2024

    Hannes Stark, Bowen Jing, Chenyu Wang, Gabriele Corso, Bonnie Berger, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola Paper Code, 2024

  2. Mixed continuous and categorical flow matching for 3D de novo molecule generation arXiv

    Ian Dunn, David Ryan Koes Paper Code, 2024

  3. Gumbel-softmax flow matching with straight-through guidance for controllable biological sequence generation arXiv

    Sophia Tang, Yinuo Zhang, Alexander Tong, Pranam Chatterjee Paper , 2025

Bio Sequence Modeling

DNA Sequence

  1. Fisher flow matching for generative modeling over discrete data NeurIPS 2024

    Oscar Davis, Samuel Kessler, Mircea Petrache, Ismail Ceylan, Michael Bronstein, Joey Bose Paper Code, 2024

  2. Dirichlet flow matching with applications to DNA sequence design arXiv

    Hannes Stark, Bowen Jing, Chenyu Wang, Gabriele Corso, Bonnie Berger, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola Paper Code, 2024

  3. Gumbel-softmax flow matching with straight-through guidance for controllable biological sequence generation arXiv

    Sophia Tang, Yinuo Zhang, Alexander Tong, Pranam Chatterjee Paper, 2025

  4. Multi-Objective-Guided Discrete Flow Matching for Controllable Biological Sequence Design arXiv Tong Chen, Yinuo Zhang, Sophia Tang, Pranam Chatterjee Paper , 2025

RNA Sequence

  1. RNACG: A universal RNA sequence conditional generation model based on flow-matching arXiv

    Lei Gao, Zhi John Lu Paper , 2024

  2. RNAFlow: RNA structure & sequence design via inverse folding-based flow matching ICML 2024

    Divya Nori, Wengong Jin Paper , 2024

  3. RiboGen: RNA sequence and structure co-generation with equivariant multiflow arXiv

    Daniel Rubin, Alex de Souza Costa, Manvitha Ponnapati, Joseph Jacobson Paper , 2025

  4. RiboFlow: Conditional De Novo RNA Co-Design via Synergistic Flow Matching NeurIPS 2025

    Runze Ma, Zhongyue Zhang, Zichen Wang, Chenqing Hua, Jiahua Rao, Zhuomin Zhou, Shuangjia Zheng Paper, 2025

Whole-Genome

  1. GeNOT: Entropic (Gromov) Wasserstein flow matching with applications to single-cell genomics NeurIPS 2024

    Dominik Klein, Théo Uscidda, Fabian Theis, Marco Cuturi Paper Code, 2024

  2. CellFlow: A generative flow-based model for single-cell count data ICLR 2024 Workshop

    Antonio Palma, Till Richter, Hao Zhang, Andrea Dittadi, Fabian J. Theis Paper Code, 2024

  3. Multi-modal and multi-attribute generation of single cells with CFGen ICLR 2025

    Antonio Palma, Till Richter, Hao Zhang, Martin Lubetzki, Alexander Tong, Andrea Dittadi, Fabian J. Theis Paper, 2025

Antibody Sequence

  1. IgFlow: Flow Matching for de novo Antibody Design NeurIPS 2024

    S. Nagaraj, A. Shanehsazzadeh, H. Park, J. King, S. Levine Paper , 2024

  2. DyAB: Flow Matching for Flexible Antibody Design with AlphaFold-driven Pre-binding Antigen AAAI 2025

    C. Tan, Y. Zhang, Z. Gao, Y. Huang, H. Lin, L. Wu, F. Wu, M. Blanchette, S. Z. Li Paper Code, 2025

Molecule Generation and Design

2D Molecule Generation

  1. Improving Molecular Graph Generation with Flow Matching and Optimal Transport arXiv 2024

    X. Hou, T. Zhu, M. Ren, D. Bu, X. Gao, C. Zhang, S. Sun Paper, 2024

  2. Variational Flow Matching for Graph Generation NeurIPS 2024

    F. Eijkelboom, G. Bartosh, C. A. Naesseth, M. Welling, J. van de Meent Paper, 2024

  3. DeFoG: Discrete Flow Matching for Graph Generation ICML 2025

    Y. Qin, M. Madeira, D. Thanou, P. Frossard Paper Code, 2025

3D Molecule Generation

SE(3)-equivariant

  1. EquiFlow: Equivariant Conditional Flow Matching with Optimal Transport for 3D Molecular Conformation Prediction arXiv 2024

    Q. Tian, Y. Xu, Y. Yang, Z. Wang, Z. Liu, P. Yan, X. Li Paper, 2024

  2. Applications of Modular Co-Design for de novo 3D Molecule Generation NeurIPS 2024 Workshop

    D. Reidenbach, F. Nikitin, O. Isayev, S. G. Paliwal Paper, 2024

  3. Controlled Generation with Equivariant Variational Flow Matching ICML 2025

    F. Eijkelboom, H. Zimmermann, S. Vadgama, E. Bekkers, M. Welling, C. A. Naesseth, J.-W. van de Meent Paper, 2025

  4. ET-Flow: Equivariant Transformer Flow for Molecular Conformer Generation arXiv 2024

    M. Hassan, N. Shenoy, J. Lee, H. Stark, S. Thaler, D. Beaini Paper Code, 2024

Efficiency

  1. Accelerating 3D Molecule Generation via Jointly Geometric Optimal Transport (GOAT) ICLR 2025

    H. Hong, W. Lin, K. C. Tan Paper Code, 2025

  2. SemlaFlow—Efficient 3D Molecular Generation with Latent Attention and Equivariant Flow Matching AISTATS 2025

    R. Irwin, A. Tibo, J. P. Janet, S. Olsson Paper Code, 2025

  3. Efficient Molecular Conformer Generation with SO(3)-Averaged Flow Matching and Reflow ICML 2025

    Z. Cao, M. Geiger, A. D. S. Costa, D. Reidenbach, K. Kreis, T. Geffner, F. Pellegrini, G. Zhou, E. Kucukbenli Paper, 2025

  4. ET-Flow: Equivariant Flow-Matching for Molecular Conformer Generation NeurIPS 2024

    M. Hassan, N. Shenoy, J. Lee, H. Stärk, S. Thaler, D. Beaini Paper Code, 2024

Guided Generation

  1. 3D Structure Prediction of Atomic Systems with Flow-based Direct Preference Optimization NeurIPS 2024

    R. Jiao, X. Kong, W. Huang, Y. Liu Paper, 2024

  2. Extended Flow Matching: A Method of Conditional Generation with Generalized Continuity Equation arXiv 2024

    N. Isobe, M. Koyama, K. Hayashi, K. Fukumizu Paper, 2024

  3. Mixed Continuous and Categorical Flow Matching for 3D De Novo Molecule Generation arXiv 2024

    I. Dunn, D. R. Koes Paper Code, 2024

  4. Energy-Based Flow Matching for Generating 3D Molecular Structure ICML 2025

    W. Zhou, C. I. Sprague, V. Viliuga, M. Tadiello, A. Elofsson, H. Azizpour Paper Code, 2025

  5. Training-Free Guided Flow Matching with Optimal Control arXiv 2024

    L. Wang, C. Cheng, Y. Liao, Y. Qu, G. Liu Paper Code, 2024

  6. PropMolFlow: property-guided molecule generation with geometry-complete flow matching Nature Computational Science 2026

    Cheng Zeng, Jirui Jin, Connor Ambrose, George Karypis, Mark Transtrum, Ellad B. Tadmor, Richard G. Hennig, Adrian Roitberg, Stefano Martiniani, Mingjie Liu Paper Code, 2026

Conditional Molecule Design and Applications

  1. FlexSBDD: Structure-Based Drug Design with Flexible Protein Modeling NeurIPS 2024

    Z. Zhang, M. Wang, Q. Liu Paper Code, 2024

  2. Geometric Representation Condition Improves Equivariant Molecule Generation arXiv 2024

    Z. Li, C. Zhou, X. Wang, X. Peng, M. Zhang Paper Code, 2024

  3. Improving Structural Plausibility in 3D Molecule Generation via Property-Conditioned Training with Distorted Molecules bioRxiv 2024

    L. Vost, V. Chenthamarakshan, P. Das, C. M. Deane Paper, 2024

  4. Stiefel Flow Matching for Moment-Constrained Structure Elucidation arXiv 2024

    A. H. Cheng, A. Lo, K. L. K. Lee, S. Miret, A. Aspuru-Guzik Paper Code, 2024

  5. Template-Guided 3D Molecular Pose Generation via Flow Matching and Differentiable Optimization NeurIPS 2025

    Noémie Bergues, Arthur Carré, Paul Join-Lambert, Brice Hoffmann, Arnaud Blondel, Hamza Tajmouati Paper, 2025

  6. Prior-Guided Flow Matching for Target-Aware Molecule Design with Learnable Atom Number NeurIPS 2025

    Jingyuan Zhou, Hao Qian, Shikui Tu, Lei Xu Paper, 2025

Unconditional Generation

Backbone Generation

  1. Fast Protein Backbone Generation with SE(3) Flow Matching arXiv 2023

    J. Yim, A. Campbell, A. Y. Foong, M. Gastegger, J. Jiménez-Luna, S. Lewis, V. G. Satorras, B. S. Veeling, R. Barzilay, T. Jaakkola, F. Noé Paper Code, 2023

  2. SE(3)-Stochastic Flow Matching for Protein Backbone Generation ICLR 2024

    A. J. Bose, T. Akhound-Sadegh, G. Huguet, K. Fatras, J. Rector-Brooks, C.-H. Liu, A. C. Nica, M. Korablyov, M. Bronstein, A. Tong Paper Code, 2024

  3. Robust and Reliable de novo Protein Design: A Flow-Matching-Based Protein Generative Model Achieves Remarkably High Success Rates bioRxiv 2025

    J. Yan, Z. Cui, W. Yan, Y. Chen, M. Pu, S. Li, S. Ye Paper, 2025

  4. Generating Highly Designable Proteins with Geometric Algebra Flow Matching NeurIPS 2024

    S. Wagner, L. Seute, V. Viliuga, N. Wolf, F. Gräter, J. Stühmer Paper Code, 2024

  5. Sequence-Augmented SE(3)-Flow Matching for Conditional Protein Backbone Generation NeurIPS 2024

    G. Huguet, J. Vuckovic, K. Fatras, E. Thibodeau-Laufer, P. Lemos, R. Islam, C.-H. Liu, J. Rector-Brooks, T. Akhound-Sadegh, M. Bronstein, A. Tong, A. J. Bose Paper Code, 2024

  6. Proteina: Scaling Flow-Based Protein Structure Generative Models ICLR 2025 Oral

    T. Geffner, K. Didi, Z. Zhang, D. Reidenbach, Z. Cao, J. Yim, M. Geiger, C. Dallago, E. Kucukbenli, A. Vahdat, et al. Paper Code, 2025

  7. ProtComposer: Compositional Protein Structure Generation with 3D Ellipsoids ICLR 2025

    H. Stark, B. Jing, T. Geffner, J. Yim, T. Jaakkola, A. Vahdat, K. Kreis Paper Code, 2025

  8. Atom-level enzyme active site scaffolding using RFdiffusion2 Nature Methods 2025

    Woody Ahern, Jason Yim, Doug Tischer, Saman Salike, Seth M. Woodbury, Donghyo Kim, Indrek Kalvet, Yakov Kipnis, Brian Coventry, Han Raut Altae-Tran, Magnus S. Bauer, Regina Barzilay, Tommi S. Jaakkola, Rohith Krishna, David Baker Paper Code, 2025

Co-design Generation

  1. Co-Design Protein Sequence and Structure in Discrete Space via Generative Flow (CoFlow) Bioinformatics 2025

    S. Yang, L. Ju, P. Cheng, J. Zhou, Y. Cai, D. Feng Paper Code, 2025

  2. An All-Atom Generative Model for Designing Protein Complexes (APM) ICML 2025

    R. Chen, D. Xue, X. Zhou, Z. Zheng, X. Zeng, Q. Gu Paper Code, 2025

  3. Generative Flows on Discrete State-Spaces: Enabling Multimodal Flows with Applications to Protein Co-Design (Multiflow) ICML 2024

    A. Campbell, J. Yim, R. Barzilay, T. Rainforth, T. Jaakkola Paper Code, 2024

Conditional Generation

Motif-scaffolding

  1. Improved Motif-Scaffolding with SE(3) Flow Matching arXiv 2024

    Jason Yim, Andrew Campbell, Emile Mathieu, Andrew Y. K. Foong, Michael Gastegger, José Jiménez-Luna, Sarah Lewis, Victor Garcia Satorras, Bastiaan S. Veeling, Frank Noé, Regina Barzilay, Tommi S. Jaakkola Paper Code, 2024

  2. EVA: Geometric Inverse Design for Fast Protein Motif-Scaffolding with Coupled Flow ICLR 2025 Yufei Huang, Yunshu Liu, Lirong Wu, Haitao Lin, Cheng Tan, Odin Zhang, Zhangyang Gao, Siyuan Li, Zicheng Liu, Yunfan Liu, Tailin Wu, Stan Z. Li Paper, 2025

Pocket & Binder Design

  1. Design of Ligand-Binding Proteins with Atomic Flow Matching arXiv 2024

    Junqi Liu, Shaoning Li, Chence Shi, Zhi Yang, Jian Tang Paper, 2024

  2. Harmonic Self-Conditioned Flow Matching for Joint Multi-Ligand Docking and Binding Site Design ICML 2024

    Hannes Stärk, Bowen Jing, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola Paper Code, 2024

  3. Generalized Protein Pocket Generation with Prior-Informed Flow Matching (PocketFlow) NeurIPS 2024

    Zaixi Zhang, Marinka Zitnik, Qi Liu Paper Code, 2024

  4. FlowBack: A Generalized Flow-Matching Approach for Biomolecular Backmapping JCIM 2025

    Michael S. Jones, Smayan Khanna, Andrew L. Ferguson Paper Code, 2025

Structure Prediction

Conformer Prediction

  1. AlphaFold Meets Flow Matching for Generating Protein Ensembles ICML 2024

    B. Jing, B. Berger, T. Jaakkola Paper Code, 2024

  2. P2DFlow: A Protein Ensemble Generative Model with SE(3) Flow Matching JCTC 2025

    Y. Jin, Q. Huang, Z. Song, M. Zheng, D. Teng, Q. Shi Paper Code, 2025

  3. FlowPacker: Protein Side-Chain Packing with Torsional Flow Matching Bioinformatics 2025

    J. S. Lee, P. M. Kim Paper Code, 2025

  4. EquiformerV2: Improved Equivariant Transformer for Scaling to Higher-Degree Representations ICLR 2024

    Y.-L. Liao, B. Wood, A. Das, T. Smidt Paper Code, 2023

  5. Full-Atom Peptide Design based on Multi-modal Flow Matching ICML 2024

    J. Li, C. Cheng, Z. Wu, R. Guo, S. Luo, Z. Ren, J. Peng, J. Ma Paper Code, 2024

Side-chain Packing

  1. FlowPacker: Protein Side-Chain Packing with Torsional Flow Matching Bioinformatics 2025

    J. S. Lee, P. M. Kim Paper Code, 2025

  2. EquiformerV2: Improved Equivariant Transformer for Scaling to Higher-Degree Representations arXiv 2023

    Y.-L. Liao, B. Wood, A. Das, T. Smidt Paper Code, 2023

  3. Full-Atom Peptide Design based on Multi-modal Flow Matching ICML 2024

    J. Li, C. Cheng, Z. Wu, R. Guo, S. Luo, Z. Ren, J. Peng, J. Ma Paper Code, 2024

Docking Prediction

  1. Harmonic Self-Conditioned Flow Matching for Joint Multi-Ligand Docking and Binding Site Design ICML 2024

    Hannes Stärk, Bowen Jing, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola Paper Code, 2024

  2. FlowDock: Geometric Flow Matching for Generative Protein-Ligand Docking and Affinity Prediction Bioinformatics 2025

    Alex Morehead, Jianlin Cheng Paper Code, 2025

  3. ForceFM: Enhancing Protein-Ligand Predictions through Force-Guided Flow Matching NeurIPS 2025

    Huanlei Guo, Song Liu, Bingyi Jing Paper Code, 2025

Peptide and Antibody Generation

  1. P2DFlow: A Protein Ensemble Generative Model with SE(3) Flow Matching JCTC 2025

    Y. Jin, Q. Huang, Z. Song, M. Zheng, D. Teng, Q. Shi Paper Code, 2025

  2. Full-Atom Peptide Design based on Multi-modal Flow Matching ICML 2024

    J. Li, C. Cheng, Z. Wu, R. Guo, S. Luo, Z. Ren, J. Peng, J. Ma Paper Code, 2024

  3. PPFlow: Target-Aware Peptide Design with Torsional Flow Matching bioRxiv 2024

    H. Lin, O. Zhang, H. Zhao, D. Jiang, L. Wu, Z. Liu, Y. Huang, S. Z. Li Paper Code, 2024

  4. Non-Linear Flow Matching for Full-Atom Peptide Design arXiv 2025

    D. Huang, S. Tu Paper, 2025

  5. ProtFlow: Fast Protein Sequence Design via Flow Matching on Compressed Protein Language Model Embeddings arXiv 2025

    Z. Kong, Y. Zhu, Y. Xu, H. Zhou, M. Yin, J. Wu, H. Xu, C.-Y. Hsieh, T. Hou, J. Wu Paper, 2025

Other Biology Applications

Dynamic Cell Trajectory

  1. GeNOT: Entropic (Gromov) Wasserstein Flow Matching with Applications to Single-Cell Genomics NeurIPS 2024

    Dominik Klein, Théo Uscidda, Fabian Theis, Marco Cuturi Paper Code, 2024

  2. CellFlux: Simulating Cellular Morphology Changes via Flow Matching ICML 2025

    Yuhui Zhang, Yuchang Su, Chenyu Wang, Tianhong Li, Zoe Wefers, Jeffrey Nirschl, James Burgess, Daisy Ding, Alejandro Lozano, Emma Lundberg, Serena Yeung-Levy Paper, 2025

  3. Metric Flow Matching for Smooth Interpolations on the Data Manifold NeurIPS 2024

    Kacper Kapuśniak, Peter Potaptchik, Teodora Reu, Leo Zhang, Alexander Tong, Michael Bronstein, Avishek Joey Bose, Francesco Di Giovanni Paper Code, 2024

  4. Diversified Flow Matching with Translation Identifiability ICML 2025

    Sagar Shrestha, Xiao Fu Paper, 2025

Bio-Image Generation

  1. FlowSDF: Flow Matching for Medical Image Segmentation Using Distance Transforms arXiv 2024

    Lea Bogensperger, Dominik Narnhofer, Alexander Falk, Konrad Schindler, Thomas Pock Paper Code, 2024

  2. Flow Matching for Medical Image Synthesis: Bridging the Gap Between Speed and Quality arXiv 2025

    Milad Yazdani, Yasamin Medghalchi, Pooria Ashrafian, Ilker Hacihaliloglu, Dena Shahriari Paper, 2025

  3. Multimodal Straight Flow Matching for Accelerated MR Imaging Computers in Biology and Medicine 2024

    Daikun Zhang, Qiuyi Han, Yuzhu Xiong, Hongwei Du Paper, 2024

Spatial Transcriptomics

  1. Wasserstein Flow Matching: Generative Modeling over Families of Distributions ICML 2025

    Doron Haviv, Aram-Alexandre Pooladian, Dana Pe’er, Brandon Amos Paper Code, 2025

  2. Scalable Generation of Spatial Transcriptomics from Histology Images via Whole-Slide Flow Matching ICML 2025

    Tinglin Huang, Tianyu Liu, Mehrtash Babadi, Wengong Jin, Rex Ying Paper Code, 2025

Neural Activities

  1. Stream-level Flow Matching with Gaussian Processes ICML 2025

    Ganchao Wei, Li Ma Paper Code, 2025

  2. Flow Matching for Few-Trial Neural Adaptation with Stable Latent Dynamics ICML 2025

    Puli Wang, Yu Qi, Yueming Wang, Gang Pan Paper, 2025

  3. Riemannian Flow Matching for Brain Connectivity Matrices via Pullback Geometry NeurIPS 2025

    Antoine Collas, Ce Ju, Nicolas Salvy, Bertrand Thirion Paper Code, 2025

Datasets and Software Tools

Table 5 and 6 in our survey paper Flow Matching Meets Biology and Life Science: A Survey.

Citations

Please cite the following paper if you find the resource helpful for your research:

@article{li2026flow,
  title={Flow matching meets biology and life science: a survey},
  author={Li, Zihao and Zeng, Zhichen and Lin, Xiao and Fang, Feihao and Qu, Yanru and Xu, Zhe and Liu, Zhining and Ning, Xuying and Wei, Tianxin and Liu, Ge and others},
  journal={npj Artificial Intelligence},
  volume={2},
  number={1},
  pages={17},
  year={2026},
  publisher={Nature Publishing Group UK London}
}

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Violet24K/Awesome-Flow-Matching-Meets-Biology

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README

Awesome-Flow-Matching-Biology Awesome

A curated collection of papers, tools, and resources accompanying Flow Matching Meets Biology and Life Science: A Survey (arXiv 2025).

Flow matching is an emerging framework for generative modeling. This repository tracks its applications across biology and life sciences.

✨ This repository is continuously updated — star ⭐ it to stay up to date!

📖 If you find these resources helpful, please consider citing our survey (see Citations).

Why Flow Matching for Biology?

Flow Matching (FM) has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for generative modeling, offering a flexible and scalable framework applicable across a wide range of biological domains. By constructing continuous probability trajectories between simple and complex distributions, FM provides an efficient and principled method to model high-dimensional, structured biological data while preserving structural and geometric constraints.

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Overview

Contents

Flow Matching Basics

General FM

Conditional FM

  1. Building normalizing flows with stochastic interpolants ICLR 2023

    Michael S. Albergo, Eric Vanden-Eijnden Paper Code, 2023

  2. Variational flow matching for graph generation NeurIPS 2024

    Floor Eijkelboom, Grigory Bartosh, Christian Andersson Naesseth, Max Welling, Jan-Willem van de Meent Paper, 2024

  3. Flow matching for generative modeling ICLR 2023

    Yaron Lipman, Ricky T. Q. Chen, Heli Ben-Hamu, Maximilian Nickel, Matt Le Paper Code, 2023

  4. Improving and generalizing flow-based generative models with minibatch optimal transport TMLR

    Alexander Tong, Nikolay Malkin, Guillaume Huguet, Yanlei Zhang, Jarrid Rector-Brooks, Kilian Fatras, Guy Wolf, Yoshua Bengio Paper Code, 2024

Rectified FM

  1. Optimal flow matching: Learning straight trajectories in just one step NeurIPS 2024

    Nikita Kornilov, Petr Mokrov, Alexander Gasnikov, Alexander Korotin Paper Code, 2024

  2. Improving and generalizing flow-based generative models with minibatch optimal transport TMLR

    Alexander Tong, Kilian Fatras, Nikolay Malkin, Guillaume Huguet, Yanlei Zhang, Jarrid Rector-Brooks, Guy Wolf, Yoshua Bengio Paper Code, 2023

  3. Improving the training of rectified flows NeurIPS 2024

    Sangyun Lee, Zinan Lin, Giulia Fanti Paper Code, 2024

  4. Flow straight and fast: Learning to generate and transfer data with rectified flow ICLR 2023

    Xingchao Liu, Chengyue Gong, Qiang Liu Paper, 2023

Non-Euclidean FM

  1. Flow matching on general geometries ICLR 2024

    Ricky T. Q. Chen, Yaron Lipman Paper, 2023

  2. α-flow: A unified framework for continuous-state discrete flow matching models preprint

    Cheng Cheng, Jiahao Li, Jianfei Fan, Ge Liu Paper, 2025

  3. Fisher flow matching for generative modeling over discrete data NeurIPS 2024

    Oscar Davis, Samuel Kessler, Mircea Petrache, Ismail Ceylan, Michael Bronstein, Joey Bose Paper Code, 2024

  4. Neural manifold ordinary differential equations NeurIPS 2020

    Aaron Lou, Derek Lim, Isay Katsman, Leo Huang, Qingxuan Jiang, Ser Nam Lim, Christopher M. De Sa Paper , 2020

  5. Riemannian continuous normalizing flows NeurIPS 2020

    Emile Mathieu, Maximilian Nickel Paper, 2020

Discrete FM

CTMC

  1. Discrete flow matching NeurIPS 2024

    Itai Gat, Tal Remez, Neta Shaul, Felix Kreuk, Ricky T. Q. Chen, Gabriel Synnaeve, Yossi Adi, Yaron Lipman Paper Code, 2024

  2. α-flow: A unified framework for continuous-state discrete flow matching models arXiv

    Cheng Cheng, Jiahao Li, Jianfei Fan, Ge Liu Paper , 2025

  3. Fisher flow matching for generative modeling over discrete data NeurIPS 2024

    Oscar Davis, Samuel Kessler, Mircea Petrache, Ismail Ceylan, Michael Bronstein, Joey Bose Paper Code, 2024

  4. Generative flows on discrete state-spaces: Enabling multimodal flows with applications to protein co-design arXiv

    Andrew Campbell, Jason Yim, Regina Barzilay, Tom Rainforth, Tommi Jaakkola Paper, 2024

  5. Defog: Discrete flow matching for graph generation arXiv

    Yiming Qin, Manuel Madeira, Dorina Thanou, Pascal Frossard Paper Code, 2024

  6. Flow matching with general discrete paths: A kinetic-optimal perspective ICLR 2025 Oral

    Neta Shaul, Itai Gat, Marton Havasi, Daniel Severo, Anuroop Sriram, Peter Holderrieth, Brian Karrer, Yaron Lipman, Ricky T. Q. Chen Paper, 2024

Simplex

  1. Dirichlet flow matching with applications to DNA sequence design ICML 2024

    Hannes Stark, Bowen Jing, Chenyu Wang, Gabriele Corso, Bonnie Berger, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola Paper Code, 2024

  2. Mixed continuous and categorical flow matching for 3D de novo molecule generation arXiv

    Ian Dunn, David Ryan Koes Paper Code, 2024

  3. Gumbel-softmax flow matching with straight-through guidance for controllable biological sequence generation arXiv

    Sophia Tang, Yinuo Zhang, Alexander Tong, Pranam Chatterjee Paper , 2025

Bio Sequence Modeling

DNA Sequence

  1. Fisher flow matching for generative modeling over discrete data NeurIPS 2024

    Oscar Davis, Samuel Kessler, Mircea Petrache, Ismail Ceylan, Michael Bronstein, Joey Bose Paper Code, 2024

  2. Dirichlet flow matching with applications to DNA sequence design arXiv

    Hannes Stark, Bowen Jing, Chenyu Wang, Gabriele Corso, Bonnie Berger, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola Paper Code, 2024

  3. Gumbel-softmax flow matching with straight-through guidance for controllable biological sequence generation arXiv

    Sophia Tang, Yinuo Zhang, Alexander Tong, Pranam Chatterjee Paper, 2025

  4. Multi-Objective-Guided Discrete Flow Matching for Controllable Biological Sequence Design arXiv Tong Chen, Yinuo Zhang, Sophia Tang, Pranam Chatterjee Paper , 2025

RNA Sequence

  1. RNACG: A universal RNA sequence conditional generation model based on flow-matching arXiv

    Lei Gao, Zhi John Lu Paper , 2024

  2. RNAFlow: RNA structure & sequence design via inverse folding-based flow matching ICML 2024

    Divya Nori, Wengong Jin Paper , 2024

  3. RiboGen: RNA sequence and structure co-generation with equivariant multiflow arXiv

    Daniel Rubin, Alex de Souza Costa, Manvitha Ponnapati, Joseph Jacobson Paper , 2025

  4. RiboFlow: Conditional De Novo RNA Co-Design via Synergistic Flow Matching NeurIPS 2025

    Runze Ma, Zhongyue Zhang, Zichen Wang, Chenqing Hua, Jiahua Rao, Zhuomin Zhou, Shuangjia Zheng Paper, 2025

Whole-Genome

  1. GeNOT: Entropic (Gromov) Wasserstein flow matching with applications to single-cell genomics NeurIPS 2024

    Dominik Klein, Théo Uscidda, Fabian Theis, Marco Cuturi Paper Code, 2024

  2. CellFlow: A generative flow-based model for single-cell count data ICLR 2024 Workshop

    Antonio Palma, Till Richter, Hao Zhang, Andrea Dittadi, Fabian J. Theis Paper Code, 2024

  3. Multi-modal and multi-attribute generation of single cells with CFGen ICLR 2025

    Antonio Palma, Till Richter, Hao Zhang, Martin Lubetzki, Alexander Tong, Andrea Dittadi, Fabian J. Theis Paper, 2025

Antibody Sequence

  1. IgFlow: Flow Matching for de novo Antibody Design NeurIPS 2024

    S. Nagaraj, A. Shanehsazzadeh, H. Park, J. King, S. Levine Paper , 2024

  2. DyAB: Flow Matching for Flexible Antibody Design with AlphaFold-driven Pre-binding Antigen AAAI 2025

    C. Tan, Y. Zhang, Z. Gao, Y. Huang, H. Lin, L. Wu, F. Wu, M. Blanchette, S. Z. Li Paper Code, 2025

Molecule Generation and Design

2D Molecule Generation

  1. Improving Molecular Graph Generation with Flow Matching and Optimal Transport arXiv 2024

    X. Hou, T. Zhu, M. Ren, D. Bu, X. Gao, C. Zhang, S. Sun Paper, 2024

  2. Variational Flow Matching for Graph Generation NeurIPS 2024

    F. Eijkelboom, G. Bartosh, C. A. Naesseth, M. Welling, J. van de Meent Paper, 2024

  3. DeFoG: Discrete Flow Matching for Graph Generation ICML 2025

    Y. Qin, M. Madeira, D. Thanou, P. Frossard Paper Code, 2025

3D Molecule Generation

SE(3)-equivariant

  1. EquiFlow: Equivariant Conditional Flow Matching with Optimal Transport for 3D Molecular Conformation Prediction arXiv 2024

    Q. Tian, Y. Xu, Y. Yang, Z. Wang, Z. Liu, P. Yan, X. Li Paper, 2024

  2. Applications of Modular Co-Design for de novo 3D Molecule Generation NeurIPS 2024 Workshop

    D. Reidenbach, F. Nikitin, O. Isayev, S. G. Paliwal Paper, 2024

  3. Controlled Generation with Equivariant Variational Flow Matching ICML 2025

    F. Eijkelboom, H. Zimmermann, S. Vadgama, E. Bekkers, M. Welling, C. A. Naesseth, J.-W. van de Meent Paper, 2025

  4. ET-Flow: Equivariant Transformer Flow for Molecular Conformer Generation arXiv 2024

    M. Hassan, N. Shenoy, J. Lee, H. Stark, S. Thaler, D. Beaini Paper Code, 2024

Efficiency

  1. Accelerating 3D Molecule Generation via Jointly Geometric Optimal Transport (GOAT) ICLR 2025

    H. Hong, W. Lin, K. C. Tan Paper Code, 2025

  2. SemlaFlow—Efficient 3D Molecular Generation with Latent Attention and Equivariant Flow Matching AISTATS 2025

    R. Irwin, A. Tibo, J. P. Janet, S. Olsson Paper Code, 2025

  3. Efficient Molecular Conformer Generation with SO(3)-Averaged Flow Matching and Reflow ICML 2025

    Z. Cao, M. Geiger, A. D. S. Costa, D. Reidenbach, K. Kreis, T. Geffner, F. Pellegrini, G. Zhou, E. Kucukbenli Paper, 2025

  4. ET-Flow: Equivariant Flow-Matching for Molecular Conformer Generation NeurIPS 2024

    M. Hassan, N. Shenoy, J. Lee, H. Stärk, S. Thaler, D. Beaini Paper Code, 2024

Guided Generation

  1. 3D Structure Prediction of Atomic Systems with Flow-based Direct Preference Optimization NeurIPS 2024

    R. Jiao, X. Kong, W. Huang, Y. Liu Paper, 2024

  2. Extended Flow Matching: A Method of Conditional Generation with Generalized Continuity Equation arXiv 2024

    N. Isobe, M. Koyama, K. Hayashi, K. Fukumizu Paper, 2024

  3. Mixed Continuous and Categorical Flow Matching for 3D De Novo Molecule Generation arXiv 2024

    I. Dunn, D. R. Koes Paper Code, 2024

  4. Energy-Based Flow Matching for Generating 3D Molecular Structure ICML 2025

    W. Zhou, C. I. Sprague, V. Viliuga, M. Tadiello, A. Elofsson, H. Azizpour Paper Code, 2025

  5. Training-Free Guided Flow Matching with Optimal Control arXiv 2024

    L. Wang, C. Cheng, Y. Liao, Y. Qu, G. Liu Paper Code, 2024

  6. PropMolFlow: property-guided molecule generation with geometry-complete flow matching Nature Computational Science 2026

    Cheng Zeng, Jirui Jin, Connor Ambrose, George Karypis, Mark Transtrum, Ellad B. Tadmor, Richard G. Hennig, Adrian Roitberg, Stefano Martiniani, Mingjie Liu Paper Code, 2026

Conditional Molecule Design and Applications

  1. FlexSBDD: Structure-Based Drug Design with Flexible Protein Modeling NeurIPS 2024

    Z. Zhang, M. Wang, Q. Liu Paper Code, 2024

  2. Geometric Representation Condition Improves Equivariant Molecule Generation arXiv 2024

    Z. Li, C. Zhou, X. Wang, X. Peng, M. Zhang Paper Code, 2024

  3. Improving Structural Plausibility in 3D Molecule Generation via Property-Conditioned Training with Distorted Molecules bioRxiv 2024

    L. Vost, V. Chenthamarakshan, P. Das, C. M. Deane Paper, 2024

  4. Stiefel Flow Matching for Moment-Constrained Structure Elucidation arXiv 2024

    A. H. Cheng, A. Lo, K. L. K. Lee, S. Miret, A. Aspuru-Guzik Paper Code, 2024

  5. Template-Guided 3D Molecular Pose Generation via Flow Matching and Differentiable Optimization NeurIPS 2025

    Noémie Bergues, Arthur Carré, Paul Join-Lambert, Brice Hoffmann, Arnaud Blondel, Hamza Tajmouati Paper, 2025

  6. Prior-Guided Flow Matching for Target-Aware Molecule Design with Learnable Atom Number NeurIPS 2025

    Jingyuan Zhou, Hao Qian, Shikui Tu, Lei Xu Paper, 2025

Unconditional Generation

Backbone Generation

  1. Fast Protein Backbone Generation with SE(3) Flow Matching arXiv 2023

    J. Yim, A. Campbell, A. Y. Foong, M. Gastegger, J. Jiménez-Luna, S. Lewis, V. G. Satorras, B. S. Veeling, R. Barzilay, T. Jaakkola, F. Noé Paper Code, 2023

  2. SE(3)-Stochastic Flow Matching for Protein Backbone Generation ICLR 2024

    A. J. Bose, T. Akhound-Sadegh, G. Huguet, K. Fatras, J. Rector-Brooks, C.-H. Liu, A. C. Nica, M. Korablyov, M. Bronstein, A. Tong Paper Code, 2024

  3. Robust and Reliable de novo Protein Design: A Flow-Matching-Based Protein Generative Model Achieves Remarkably High Success Rates bioRxiv 2025

    J. Yan, Z. Cui, W. Yan, Y. Chen, M. Pu, S. Li, S. Ye Paper, 2025

  4. Generating Highly Designable Proteins with Geometric Algebra Flow Matching NeurIPS 2024

    S. Wagner, L. Seute, V. Viliuga, N. Wolf, F. Gräter, J. Stühmer Paper Code, 2024

  5. Sequence-Augmented SE(3)-Flow Matching for Conditional Protein Backbone Generation NeurIPS 2024

    G. Huguet, J. Vuckovic, K. Fatras, E. Thibodeau-Laufer, P. Lemos, R. Islam, C.-H. Liu, J. Rector-Brooks, T. Akhound-Sadegh, M. Bronstein, A. Tong, A. J. Bose Paper Code, 2024

  6. Proteina: Scaling Flow-Based Protein Structure Generative Models ICLR 2025 Oral

    T. Geffner, K. Didi, Z. Zhang, D. Reidenbach, Z. Cao, J. Yim, M. Geiger, C. Dallago, E. Kucukbenli, A. Vahdat, et al. Paper Code, 2025

  7. ProtComposer: Compositional Protein Structure Generation with 3D Ellipsoids ICLR 2025

    H. Stark, B. Jing, T. Geffner, J. Yim, T. Jaakkola, A. Vahdat, K. Kreis Paper Code, 2025

  8. Atom-level enzyme active site scaffolding using RFdiffusion2 Nature Methods 2025

    Woody Ahern, Jason Yim, Doug Tischer, Saman Salike, Seth M. Woodbury, Donghyo Kim, Indrek Kalvet, Yakov Kipnis, Brian Coventry, Han Raut Altae-Tran, Magnus S. Bauer, Regina Barzilay, Tommi S. Jaakkola, Rohith Krishna, David Baker Paper Code, 2025

Co-design Generation

  1. Co-Design Protein Sequence and Structure in Discrete Space via Generative Flow (CoFlow) Bioinformatics 2025

    S. Yang, L. Ju, P. Cheng, J. Zhou, Y. Cai, D. Feng Paper Code, 2025

  2. An All-Atom Generative Model for Designing Protein Complexes (APM) ICML 2025

    R. Chen, D. Xue, X. Zhou, Z. Zheng, X. Zeng, Q. Gu Paper Code, 2025

  3. Generative Flows on Discrete State-Spaces: Enabling Multimodal Flows with Applications to Protein Co-Design (Multiflow) ICML 2024

    A. Campbell, J. Yim, R. Barzilay, T. Rainforth, T. Jaakkola Paper Code, 2024

Conditional Generation

Motif-scaffolding

  1. Improved Motif-Scaffolding with SE(3) Flow Matching arXiv 2024

    Jason Yim, Andrew Campbell, Emile Mathieu, Andrew Y. K. Foong, Michael Gastegger, José Jiménez-Luna, Sarah Lewis, Victor Garcia Satorras, Bastiaan S. Veeling, Frank Noé, Regina Barzilay, Tommi S. Jaakkola Paper Code, 2024

  2. EVA: Geometric Inverse Design for Fast Protein Motif-Scaffolding with Coupled Flow ICLR 2025 Yufei Huang, Yunshu Liu, Lirong Wu, Haitao Lin, Cheng Tan, Odin Zhang, Zhangyang Gao, Siyuan Li, Zicheng Liu, Yunfan Liu, Tailin Wu, Stan Z. Li Paper, 2025

Pocket & Binder Design

  1. Design of Ligand-Binding Proteins with Atomic Flow Matching arXiv 2024

    Junqi Liu, Shaoning Li, Chence Shi, Zhi Yang, Jian Tang Paper, 2024

  2. Harmonic Self-Conditioned Flow Matching for Joint Multi-Ligand Docking and Binding Site Design ICML 2024

    Hannes Stärk, Bowen Jing, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola Paper Code, 2024

  3. Generalized Protein Pocket Generation with Prior-Informed Flow Matching (PocketFlow) NeurIPS 2024

    Zaixi Zhang, Marinka Zitnik, Qi Liu Paper Code, 2024

  4. FlowBack: A Generalized Flow-Matching Approach for Biomolecular Backmapping JCIM 2025

    Michael S. Jones, Smayan Khanna, Andrew L. Ferguson Paper Code, 2025

Structure Prediction

Conformer Prediction

  1. AlphaFold Meets Flow Matching for Generating Protein Ensembles ICML 2024

    B. Jing, B. Berger, T. Jaakkola Paper Code, 2024

  2. P2DFlow: A Protein Ensemble Generative Model with SE(3) Flow Matching JCTC 2025

    Y. Jin, Q. Huang, Z. Song, M. Zheng, D. Teng, Q. Shi Paper Code, 2025

  3. FlowPacker: Protein Side-Chain Packing with Torsional Flow Matching Bioinformatics 2025

    J. S. Lee, P. M. Kim Paper Code, 2025

  4. EquiformerV2: Improved Equivariant Transformer for Scaling to Higher-Degree Representations ICLR 2024

    Y.-L. Liao, B. Wood, A. Das, T. Smidt Paper Code, 2023

  5. Full-Atom Peptide Design based on Multi-modal Flow Matching ICML 2024

    J. Li, C. Cheng, Z. Wu, R. Guo, S. Luo, Z. Ren, J. Peng, J. Ma Paper Code, 2024

Side-chain Packing

  1. FlowPacker: Protein Side-Chain Packing with Torsional Flow Matching Bioinformatics 2025

    J. S. Lee, P. M. Kim Paper Code, 2025

  2. EquiformerV2: Improved Equivariant Transformer for Scaling to Higher-Degree Representations arXiv 2023

    Y.-L. Liao, B. Wood, A. Das, T. Smidt Paper Code, 2023

  3. Full-Atom Peptide Design based on Multi-modal Flow Matching ICML 2024

    J. Li, C. Cheng, Z. Wu, R. Guo, S. Luo, Z. Ren, J. Peng, J. Ma Paper Code, 2024

Docking Prediction

  1. Harmonic Self-Conditioned Flow Matching for Joint Multi-Ligand Docking and Binding Site Design ICML 2024

    Hannes Stärk, Bowen Jing, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola Paper Code, 2024

  2. FlowDock: Geometric Flow Matching for Generative Protein-Ligand Docking and Affinity Prediction Bioinformatics 2025

    Alex Morehead, Jianlin Cheng Paper Code, 2025

  3. ForceFM: Enhancing Protein-Ligand Predictions through Force-Guided Flow Matching NeurIPS 2025

    Huanlei Guo, Song Liu, Bingyi Jing Paper Code, 2025

Peptide and Antibody Generation

  1. P2DFlow: A Protein Ensemble Generative Model with SE(3) Flow Matching JCTC 2025

    Y. Jin, Q. Huang, Z. Song, M. Zheng, D. Teng, Q. Shi Paper Code, 2025

  2. Full-Atom Peptide Design based on Multi-modal Flow Matching ICML 2024

    J. Li, C. Cheng, Z. Wu, R. Guo, S. Luo, Z. Ren, J. Peng, J. Ma Paper Code, 2024

  3. PPFlow: Target-Aware Peptide Design with Torsional Flow Matching bioRxiv 2024

    H. Lin, O. Zhang, H. Zhao, D. Jiang, L. Wu, Z. Liu, Y. Huang, S. Z. Li Paper Code, 2024

  4. Non-Linear Flow Matching for Full-Atom Peptide Design arXiv 2025

    D. Huang, S. Tu Paper, 2025

  5. ProtFlow: Fast Protein Sequence Design via Flow Matching on Compressed Protein Language Model Embeddings arXiv 2025

    Z. Kong, Y. Zhu, Y. Xu, H. Zhou, M. Yin, J. Wu, H. Xu, C.-Y. Hsieh, T. Hou, J. Wu Paper, 2025

Other Biology Applications

Dynamic Cell Trajectory

  1. GeNOT: Entropic (Gromov) Wasserstein Flow Matching with Applications to Single-Cell Genomics NeurIPS 2024

    Dominik Klein, Théo Uscidda, Fabian Theis, Marco Cuturi Paper Code, 2024

  2. CellFlux: Simulating Cellular Morphology Changes via Flow Matching ICML 2025

    Yuhui Zhang, Yuchang Su, Chenyu Wang, Tianhong Li, Zoe Wefers, Jeffrey Nirschl, James Burgess, Daisy Ding, Alejandro Lozano, Emma Lundberg, Serena Yeung-Levy Paper, 2025

  3. Metric Flow Matching for Smooth Interpolations on the Data Manifold NeurIPS 2024

    Kacper Kapuśniak, Peter Potaptchik, Teodora Reu, Leo Zhang, Alexander Tong, Michael Bronstein, Avishek Joey Bose, Francesco Di Giovanni Paper Code, 2024

  4. Diversified Flow Matching with Translation Identifiability ICML 2025

    Sagar Shrestha, Xiao Fu Paper, 2025

Bio-Image Generation

  1. FlowSDF: Flow Matching for Medical Image Segmentation Using Distance Transforms arXiv 2024

    Lea Bogensperger, Dominik Narnhofer, Alexander Falk, Konrad Schindler, Thomas Pock Paper Code, 2024

  2. Flow Matching for Medical Image Synthesis: Bridging the Gap Between Speed and Quality arXiv 2025

    Milad Yazdani, Yasamin Medghalchi, Pooria Ashrafian, Ilker Hacihaliloglu, Dena Shahriari Paper, 2025

  3. Multimodal Straight Flow Matching for Accelerated MR Imaging Computers in Biology and Medicine 2024

    Daikun Zhang, Qiuyi Han, Yuzhu Xiong, Hongwei Du Paper, 2024

Spatial Transcriptomics

  1. Wasserstein Flow Matching: Generative Modeling over Families of Distributions ICML 2025

    Doron Haviv, Aram-Alexandre Pooladian, Dana Pe’er, Brandon Amos Paper Code, 2025

  2. Scalable Generation of Spatial Transcriptomics from Histology Images via Whole-Slide Flow Matching ICML 2025

    Tinglin Huang, Tianyu Liu, Mehrtash Babadi, Wengong Jin, Rex Ying Paper Code, 2025

Neural Activities

  1. Stream-level Flow Matching with Gaussian Processes ICML 2025

    Ganchao Wei, Li Ma Paper Code, 2025

  2. Flow Matching for Few-Trial Neural Adaptation with Stable Latent Dynamics ICML 2025

    Puli Wang, Yu Qi, Yueming Wang, Gang Pan Paper, 2025

  3. Riemannian Flow Matching for Brain Connectivity Matrices via Pullback Geometry NeurIPS 2025

    Antoine Collas, Ce Ju, Nicolas Salvy, Bertrand Thirion Paper Code, 2025

Datasets and Software Tools

Table 5 and 6 in our survey paper Flow Matching Meets Biology and Life Science: A Survey.

Citations

Please cite the following paper if you find the resource helpful for your research:

@article{li2026flow,
  title={Flow matching meets biology and life science: a survey},
  author={Li, Zihao and Zeng, Zhichen and Lin, Xiao and Fang, Feihao and Qu, Yanru and Xu, Zhe and Liu, Zhining and Ning, Xuying and Wei, Tianxin and Liu, Ge and others},
  journal={npj Artificial Intelligence},
  volume={2},
  number={1},
  pages={17},
  year={2026},
  publisher={Nature Publishing Group UK London}
}

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