Anthropic on June 30 launched Claude Science, an AI workbench built specifically for laboratory researchers, and opened it in beta to all paid Claude subscribers — Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise — on macOS and Linux.
What it does
Claude Science connects to more than 60 scientific databases and data sources, including UniProt, PDB, Ensembl, PubMed, ClinVar, and ChEMBL, and integrates with NVIDIA’s BioNeMo specialized life-science models — Evo 2, Boltz-2, and OpenFold3. The platform generates figures and manuscripts alongside the executable code that produced them, displays protein structures and chemical structures natively in 3D, and manages compute resources across a researcher’s laptop, HPC cluster, or on-demand GPUs, removing much of the manual pipeline overhead typically required for large-scale analyses.
Every result is reproducible and linked to its underlying code, addressing a long-standing challenge in computational biology where analyses can be difficult to audit or re-run independently.
Early adopters
Three early partners were cited at launch. Manifold Bio used Claude Science for target nomination in tissue-targeting drug design. The Allen Institute for Brain Science built multi-agent computational review templates with more than 20 custom skills. UCSF researchers ran germline variant analyses that previously took full workdays in roughly one-tenth the time.
Anthropic says the platform targets genomics, proteomics, structural biology, cheminformatics, single-cell analysis, and CRISPR screening, among other fields.
Grant program
Alongside the launch, Anthropic announced a grant program supporting up to 50 research projects with up to $30,000 in Claude API credits each, plus up to $2,000 in Modal compute credits. Applications close July 15, 2026, with awards announced July 31. Projects run from September 1 to December 1, 2026.