Anthropic Launches Claude Science Workbench for Researchers
Anthropic released Claude Science on Tuesday, an AI‑driven workbench that consolidates scientific research tools into a single environment for literature analysis, multistep research, and the creation of auditable artifacts. The platform integrates over 60 curated skills and connectors pre‑configured for genomics, single‑cell analysis, proteomics, structural biology, and cheminformatics.
Claude Science runs on macOS and Linux systems and connects to remote machines via SSH or HPC login nodes. It automatically generates figures and manuscript text alongside the underlying code, and it natively renders three‑dimensional protein structures, genome‑browser tracks, and chemical structures.
Resource management is handled by a planning agent that drafts execution plans and submits jobs to existing HPC clusters or Modal accounts, allowing analyses to scale from a single GPU to hundreds of GPUs as required. A reviewer agent inspects outputs, flagging incorrect citations, untraceable numbers, and figures that do not match the generated code.
The workbench leverages skills from NVIDIA’s BioNeMo Agent Toolkit to interface with life‑science models such as Evo 2, Boltz‑2, and OpenFold 3. Early adopters include Manifold Bio, which used Claude Science to nominate experimental targets by assessing surface expression, trafficking, and safety across tissues; Jérôme Lecoq at the Allen Institute, who built a multi‑agent computational review template that reads thousands of papers and constructs narrative reviews with quantitative cross‑study figures; and Stephen Francis at the UCSF Brain Tumor Center, who applied the app to molecular epidemiology studies on glioma, completing comprehensive germline workups in one‑tenth the time previously required.
The beta version is currently available to Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users. Anthropic has announced support for up to 50 AI‑for‑Science projects, providing each with up to $30,000 in credits. Applications are open through 15 July 2026, with award notifications scheduled for 31 July 2026.
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