Anthropic on Tuesday unveiled Claude Science, an AI workbench intended to bring scientific research tools into a single, integrated environment for literature analysis, multistep computational workflows, and generation of auditable research artifacts.
The platform includes over 60 curated skills and connectors that arrive pre-configured for a range of life-science specialties - genomics, single-cell analysis, proteomics, structural biology and cheminformatics. Claude Science runs on macOS and Linux and is designed to link with remote compute resources via SSH or through HPC login nodes.
Outputs from analyses are produced together with the code that generated them: the workbench generates figures and manuscripts while preserving the underlying scripts. It also provides native rendering for 3D protein structures, genome browser tracks and chemical structures so visualizations appear alongside reproducible code and document artifacts.
Resource management is handled by the system through drafted computation plans and job submission to existing high-performance computing clusters or Modal accounts. This orchestration allows analysis to scale from a single GPU to hundreds of GPUs depending on the workload.
To support reviewability, Claude Science incorporates a reviewer agent that examines outputs and flags potential problems such as incorrect citations, numbers that cannot be traced to a source, and figures that do not match the underlying code. Integration with NVIDIA's BioNeMo Agent Toolkit provides skills that connect the workbench to life-sciences models including Evo 2, Boltz-2 and OpenFold3.
Early adopters and use cases illustrate the tool's scope. Manifold Bio used Claude Science to nominate experimental targets by evaluating surface expression, intracellular trafficking and safety profiles across tissues and targets. At the Allen Institute, Jérôme Lecoq created a multi-agent computational review template that ingests thousands of papers to produce narrative reviews supplemented by quantitative cross-study figures. At the UCSF Brain Tumor Center, Stephen Francis applied the app to molecular epidemiology investigations of glioma and reported that comprehensive germline workups that previously took much longer were completed in one-tenth the time.
The beta release is available to Claude Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise subscribers. Anthropic said it will support as many as 50 AI-for-Science projects with credits of up to $30,000 each; applications are open through July 15, 2026, and awardees will be notified by July 31.
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