Anthropic has launched Claude Science, a beta application that runs scientific analyses, searches databases, and ensures reproducibility from data wrangling to publication. The tool enables researchers to view proteins, structures, and molecules natively while tracking every step of their workflow. It connects to 60+ scientific databases and manages compute environments across laptops, clusters, and GPUs without requiring extra installations.

Claude Science handles genomics, single-cell RNA-seq, proteomics, and cheminformatics through pre-configured specialists. It orchestrates batch scripts and job management over SSH while keeping variables and models in memory for fast iteration. The app includes agentic fact-checking that flags incorrect citations and mismatched figures, with an AI reviewer that can edit code directly. Users can annotate figures and request revisions, with every result traced to its underlying code and conversation history.

Researchers praise its transformative impact: computational biologist Mike Nichols notes it compresses 'raw data to publication-quality figure' workflows, while others credit it with identifying virus contaminants in RNA-seq data. Partnerships with Latch Bio and Helix integrate verified bioinformatics tools and clinico-genomic datasets. The platform works with existing lab stacks through connectors, inheriting preferred tools automatically across sessions.

Claude Science represents a shift toward AI-native scientific computing, where reproducibility and domain-specific integration are built into the analysis process rather than bolted on afterward.