Computational biology

Accelerate your compute-intensive R&D with Modal

“Research breakthroughs require teams to move as fast as possible. Modal makes it incredibly easy for research teams to adapt to flexibly build out new AI experiments and systems. It's not surprising to see how quickly people are adopting Modal, so they can focus on the science instead of the infrastructure setup.”

Sal Candido, Engineering Fellow and Vice President

“We used Modal to build an inference server for our model, Chai-1, which allows people to predict molecular structures via a web app. Modal allowed us to build and launch the server in days: our engineers didn't have to worry about maintaining infrastructure, delivering the product in record time.”

Jack Dent, Co-Founder

“Processing external quantum mechanical datasets comes with unique challenges. Jobs can fail in numerous ways. Modal's retry mechanism and batching primitives have made our data pipeline much more robust.”

Liz Decolvenaere, Quantum Chemical Engineer

Run large-scale batch processing on GPUs and CPUs

Powerful and easy fan-out support

Parallelize your Python functions over thousands of containers

Go from zero to 100 GPUs in seconds

Run structure prediction, molecular dynamics, and more

Scale up and scale out CPU-heavy jobs

Search terabyte-scale sequence databases in minutes, not hours

Run large-scale batch processing on GPUs and CPUs

Run anything on Modal

A general-purpose compute layer

Modal's infrastructure runs your code in the cloud

Bring your custom container images to Modal

Run any packages, frameworks, or binaries you want

Build multi-step workflows that mix environments

Seamlessly exchange data between containers

Run anything on Modal

You do the science, we do the infrastructure

Declare your infrastructure needs in a few lines of Python

No YAML needed. Get started in minutes, then scale for years.

Fully usage-based pricing

No need to make long-term reservations. Spin up and down in seconds.

Get access to a range of different GPU types

T4s, L4s, A10Gs, A100s, H100s. And CPUs too!

You do the science, we do the infrastructure

Built with Modal

Fold with ESMFold2

Infer the structure of biomolecular complexes at scale

Fold proteins with Boltz-2

Predict molecular structures and binding affinities from sequences with SotA open source models

Build a protein folding dashboard

Serve a web UI for a protein model with ESM3, Molstar, and Gradio

Fold proteins with Chai-1

Predict molecular structures from sequences with SotA open source models

Ship your first app in minutes.

$30 / month free compute