Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists, is now available
Key Points
- Beta on macOS/Linux for Pro/Max/Team/Enterprise
- Reproducible artifacts with code, environment, and provenance
- Managed compute across laptop, SSH/HPC, and Modal GPUs
Summary
Claude Science is a new AI workbench for scientific research that integrates common domain tools, data sources, and compute management into a single, auditable environment. It produces reproducible artifacts (code, environment, and provenance), renders scientific visualizations natively (3D structures, genome tracks, chemical diagrams), and coordinates multi-agent workflows including reviewer agents that check citations and calculations.
Key Points
- Availability: beta for Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise on macOS and Linux; Team/Enterprise admins must enable access. Get started: claude.com/science.
- Integrated tooling: >60 preconfigured skills and connectors for genomics, single-cell, proteomics, structural biology, cheminformatics, and major scientific databases (UniProt, PDB, Ensembl, GEO, ChEMBL, etc.).
- Reproducibility & provenance: every figure and result includes the exact code, execution environment, plain-language description, and full message history for validation and reproduction.
- Compute management: runs on laptop, remote SSH/HPC login nodes, or cloud GPUs via Modal; agent drafts plans, asks before provisioning, submits jobs, and can scale from single GPUs to hundreds.
- Multi-agent workflows: generalist coordinating agent plus specialist and user-created agents; reviewer agents validate citations, flag untraceable numbers, and auto-correct mistakes; sessions can be forked to compare approaches.
- Extensibility: save custom pipelines as reusable skills; native connectors to existing lab models, datasets, and pipelines; uses NVIDIA BioNeMo toolkit integrations.
- Use cases & early validation: used for single-cell RNA-seq, CRISPR design, protein folding, cheminformatics, literature reviews, and epidemiology analyses with reported speedups and independent validation.
- Grants & pilot support: up to 50 projects eligible for up to $30,000 in credits (applications open through 2026-07-15; awards by 2026-07-31; projects run 2026-09-01 to 2026-12-01). Modal may provide select projects with up to $2,000 in compute.
Engineer checklist to get started
- Confirm plan: Pro/Max/Team/Enterprise; ask your admin to enable Claude Science for Team/Enterprise.
- Platform: macOS or Linux (local or remote via SSH/HPC).
- Prepare compute: ensure SSH/HPC credentials or Modal account for cloud GPUs.
- Reuse tooling: register or connect in-house models, datasets, and pipelines as skills or connectors to preserve validated workflows.
- Feedback & community: join AI for Science Discourse to report issues and share workflows.
Links & deadlines
- Product: claude.com/science
- Pilot applications: apply by 2026-07-15; awards by 2026-07-31; projects 2026-09-01 to 2026-12-01.