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Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists
AI has the potential to dramatically accelerate the pace of scientific discovery and the development of healthcare interventions. Since launching our efforts in the life sciences last fall, we’ve worked to improve our model capabilities, make connections to the scientific ecosystem via MCPs and skills, and launch partnerships in an effort to realize this potential.
TL;DR
- Claude Science is an AI workbench for scientists, designed to accelerate discovery and healthcare interventions.
- It integrates fragmented research tools into a single environment, supporting literature analysis, multi-step research execution, and artifact refinement.
- Outputs are auditable, with detailed histories of creation for validation and reproduction.
- The platform can be accessed locally on macOS/Linux or remotely, similar to a Jupyter Notebook.
- It features a generalist coordinating agent with over 60 curated skills and connectors for various scientific domains.
- A reviewer agent checks citations and calculations, flagging and correcting errors.
- Claude Science natively renders rich scientific artifacts like 3D protein structures and chemical structures.
- It manages computational resources, from local laptops to on-demand GPUs and HPC clusters.
- The platform is pre-configured for genomics, single-cell, proteomics, and cheminformatics, backed by over 60 scientific databases.
- It integrates with NVIDIA's BioNeMo Agent Toolkit and can connect to existing user models, datasets, and pipelines.
- Beta testing by researchers has shown acceleration in tasks like single-cell RNA sequencing analysis and protein structure prediction.
- Examples include Manifold Bio using it for target nomination, Jérôme Lecoq at the Allen Institute for computational review templates, and Stephen Francis at UCSF for glioma research.
- Claude Science is available in beta on macOS and Linux for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans.
- An "AI for Science" program offers credits for projects, with applications open until July 15, 2026.