Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists, is now available
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Anthropic launched Claude Science, a unified AI research environment with 60+ pre-configured tools for genomics, proteomics, and structural biology — it produces auditable, reproducible artifacts and runs locally on macOS/Linux or remotely via SSH and HPC, now in beta for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users.
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Claude Science is Anthropic's first dedicated scientific research platform, launched June 30. It consolidates tools researchers typically switch between — PubMed, Jupyter, R, cluster terminals — into a single environment covering all stages of research from literature review through manuscript preparation. The app runs on macOS or Linux locally, and remotely via SSH or HPC login nodes. The platform ships with over 60 curated skills and connectors pre-configured for specific research domains: genomics, single-cell biology, proteomics, structural biology, and cheminformatics. A generalist coordinating agent manages these, can spin up specialist sub-agents created by users, and works alongside a reviewer agent that automatically checks citations and calculations, flagging and correcting errors in real time. Claude Science natively renders scientific artifacts — 3D protein structures, genome browser tracks, chemical structures — alongside the code that generated them. All outputs carry an auditable history tracing each result back to its source code, addressing a core reproducibility problem in AI-assisted research. This is comparable to the Jupyter Notebook model but extended to scientific visualization. Claude Science is available in beta for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users. Anthropic says it will continue refining the platform based on feedback and frames it as part of a broader life-sciences initiative launched the previous fall.