Claude Science
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Anthropic launched a beta app for scientific research with integrated compute and database connections.
Claude Science is a macOS/Linux app that connects to scientific databases, tools, and HPCs to run analyses. It supports genomics, proteomics, structural biology, and more, with code and environments tied to each figure. The app traces every step from data wrangling to publication. It includes connectors for lab APIs and pipelines. Testimonials from researchers at MIT, UCSF, and the Allen Institute highlight speed and reproducibility, including one who found a lab virus contaminant in RNA-seq data after a year of struggling.
FAQs note it is a public beta app using existing Claude models, not a new frontier model.
What commenters are saying
Several commenters expressed skepticism about AI in science, arguing it may worsen the reproducibility crisis and enable paper mills. One user tested the app and found it hallucinated at least one reference. Others criticized Anthropic for releasing this while its Fable model remains unavailable after government restrictions. A few defended the tool's potential to help with reproducibility in computational fields by reimplementing papers from descriptions. The thread split between those seeing value in applied AI for specific workflows and those distrusting LLMs for scientific work.