# Claude Science: Anthropic's beta for scientific research

> A public beta app that turns Claude into a research agent running full scientific analyses on your own infrastructure, with reproducible, fully traced results.

Published: 2026-07-02
URL: https://daniliants.com/insights/claude-science-anthropic-s-beta-for-scientific-research/
Tags: claude, anthropic, scientific-research, reproducibility

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## Summary

Claude Science is a public beta app (not a new model) that turns Claude into a research agent running full scientific analyses on the user's own infrastructure. It manages compute environments, connects to 60+ scientific databases and domain models, and attaches full provenance (code, environment, conversation) to every artifact so results are reproducible and defensible months later.

## Key Insight

- **It's an agentic workbench, not a model.** Uses whatever Claude model your plan already includes. The value is everything around it: scientific tools, DB connectors, and compute orchestration.
- **Compute runs where your data lives** - laptop, lab Linux box, HPC login node, or cloud VM. Writes batch scripts and submits/manages Slurm jobs over SSH, or via a Modal account. Variables, dataframes, and loaded models stay in memory across a whole analysis for fast iteration.
- **Provenance is the differentiator.** Every figure/table/notebook ships the exact code, environment, plain-language description, and the conversation that produced it. A background reviewer flags incorrect citations, untraceable numbers, and figures that don't match their code before results surface.
- **Domain-ready day one** across genomics, single-cell, proteomics, structural biology, cheminformatics. Renders proteins, alignments, genomic tracks, chemical structures, and PDFs natively. Pipelines can be saved as reusable skills that future sessions inherit automatically.
- **NVIDIA integration:** uses skills from NVIDIA's BioNeMo Agent Toolkit to connect to BioNeMo models/libraries including Evo 2, Boltz-2, and OpenFold3.
- **Data posture:** app runs on your infra, raw datasets and compute stay local; only prompt/response content is processed by Anthropic under standard retention.
- **Access:** beta on macOS and Linux for Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise. A discounted Team plan for research labs exists for academic/nonprofit labs (PI-verified); for-profit and CRO teams go via Team/Enterprise.