The new standalone product brings together literature analysis, compute management, and publication-ready figure generation in a single environment, and Anthropic is already using it for its own drug research
The workflow in scientific research has problems that most people outside of it don’t even consider. Researchers find themselves jumping on any given day from PubMed looking up scientific literature to Jupyter for data analysis, then R to perform statistics, then to the cluster terminal for heavy computation; then to several data pipelines that were built to connect formats that were never built to be able to communicate with each other. Anthropic built Claude Science to solve this very fragmentation.
What Claude Science Actually Is
Launched on June 30, Claude Science is a standalone AI workbench designed specifically for researchers working in fields like computational biology and drug development. Unlike earlier scientific plug-ins that added individual capabilities to Claude, this is a full-featured product in its own right, placing it alongside Claude Code and Claude Cowork in Anthropic’s product lineup. It is currently rolling out in beta for Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers.
What It Can Do
The product pulls together the fragmented tools of a research workflow into a single environment. Researchers can analyse literature, run multi-step analyses, generate figures and manuscripts alongside the code that produced them, and refine outputs iteratively until they are ready for publication. Claude Science natively renders scientific artefacts including 3D protein structures, genome browser tracks, and chemical structures, and users can annotate figures in plain language to request edits directly.
Managing Compute at Scale
One of the most useful things about Claude Science for researchers is that it provides a way to work on large-scale computing. Researchers no longer need to create jobs in a cluster and then also need to manually monitor their jobs and then obtain the results of their jobs; instead, the model creates an outline that includes each of these types of activity. The model also makes sure all resources will be available before borrowing them and scaling from one GPU up to hundreds of GPUs as needed, while always allowing researchers to maintain ultimate control over all of those decisions.
Anthropic has also announced it will use Claude Science for its own research into treatments for rare and neglected diseases, a signal that the company is prepared to stake its own work on the product it is asking scientists to trust.
