AbLang2

Antibody-specific language model for paired heavy/light sequences.

Developer: OPIG, University of Oxford

Commercial use OKFree for commercial use

Overview

Developer
OPIG, University of Oxford
Commercial rights
Commercial OK
Commercial cost
Free commercially
Compute
Single GPU
Open weights
Yes
Last verified

Capabilities

Antibody-specific language model. Input: a paired heavy+light (or single-chain) antibody sequence; output: embeddings and residue likelihoods used to score naturalness, restore missing residues and rank humanisation or affinity-maturation edits.

When to use it

Use for antibody-aware likelihoods, germline-ness scoring and restoring missing residues in repertoire data. Trained on natural repertoires, so it penalises unusual-but-valid designed CDRs.

Input / Output

Input
a paired heavy+light (or single-chain) antibody sequence
Output
embeddings and residue likelihoods used to score naturalness, restore missing residues and rank humanisation or affinity-maturation edits

Compute

Single GPU. Other tools with this compute profile →

Commercial Licensing

Commercial rights — may a company use it?

Commercial use OK

Licence as writtenBSD 3-Clause License

BSD 3-Clause LICENSE file in the repo; permissive, attribution and no-endorsement conditions only.

Original sources — read on 15 Oct 2026
  1. raw.githubusercontent.com/oxpig/AbLang2/main/LICENSE

The licence read at the source allows use by a company. Attribution or copyleft conditions may still apply — read the note.

Commercial cost — is commercial use free of charge?

Free for commercial use

Nothing to pay: the licence read at the source grants commercial use with no fee, and the code and weights are public downloads. You still pay for your own compute.

Original sources — read on 15 Oct 2026
  1. raw.githubusercontent.com/oxpig/AbLang2/main/LICENSE

Price and rights are separate: this panel is about money, the panel above is about permission.

  • Commercial OK ≠ Free of charge. A tool can be licensed for company use and still need a paid licence for a dependency (BindCraft → PyRosetta).
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  • Unverified ≠ Commercially permitted. If no published statement settles it, treat it as unknown — not as a yes.
  • Every component counts. Each status considers the code licence, the model-weights terms, required dependencies and any terms of use.

Model Weights

Open weights. A separate weights licence is Not documented as its own field; where weights carry different terms from the code, that is stated in the licence explanation above.

Dependencies

Not documented as a separate field. Any dependency that affects commercial use (for example a paid PyRosetta licence) is named in the licence and cost explanations above.

Official References

Official site / repo
github.com/oxpig/AbLang2

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