Claude Science is Anthropic's AI workbench for scientists — an app that integrates the tools and packages researchers most commonly use into a single environment, produces auditable artifacts, and provides flexible access to computing resources. Public beta launch: June 30, 2026.
One workbench instead of ten tools
Research work is often fragmented across dozens of databases (each with its own schema), file formats that need bespoke pipelines, and tools: PubMed, Jupyter, R, a cluster terminal. Claude Science brings these fragments into a single environment where scientists analyse literature, execute multistep research, produce detailed artifacts, and iteratively refine figures and manuscripts until they are ready for publication. The app runs locally (macOS / Linux) or remotely over SSH / HPC login node.
Multi-agent: coordinator + 60+ skills + reviewer agent
The user converses with a generalist coordinating agent that has access to over 60 curated skills and connectors pre-configured for genomics, single-cell, proteomics, structural biology and cheminformatics. These agents can spin up sub-agents and use user-created specialist agents. A separate reviewer agent (actor-critic pair) checks citations and calculations, flagging and correcting errors in the background of the pipeline.
Auditable, fully reproducible artifacts
Every generated figure includes the exact code, environment (Python / R / shell), plain-language description, and the full conversation history that produced it — the analysis remains reproducible months later. Figure edits happen in natural language ('remove gridlines', 'change axis to log scale') — the agent edits its own code. Native rendering of 3D protein structures, genome browser tracks, chemical structures.
Compute on demand (laptop, cluster, GPU)
Claude Science manages environments and computing resources: it works on your laptop, a dedicated Linux box, your own HPC cluster (over SSH), or on your Modal account (compute on demand) — scaling analysis from a single GPU to hundreds as needed. Sensitive data never leaves your lab's infrastructure — only the context necessary for the specific analysis step is sent to Claude.
Integrations
Connects natively to 60+ scientific databases (including UniProt, PDB, Ensembl, Reactome, ClinVar, ChEMBL, GEO, PubMed). Integration with the NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit provides native access to Evo 2, Boltz-2, and OpenFold3. Compute via Modal. MCP connectors to LatchBio, Helix, and your lab's own ELNs.
Availability and the AI for Science program
Beta on Claude Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (macOS and Linux). A dedicated Claude Team plan for research labs offers discounted seats for active academic labs and nonprofit organisations. The AI for Science program: up to 50 supported projects receiving $30,000 in credits plus $2,000 in Modal compute credits (applications open through July 15, 2026; projects run September 1 — December 1, 2026).
