Anthropic Launches Claude Science, an AI Workbench for Scientific Researchers

My take: Anthropic just launched Claude Science, an AI workbench designed specifically for scientific researchers. It is not simply access to a language model: it is an integrated environment with over 60 preconfigured skills and connectors for genomics, structural biology, proteomics, bioinformatics, and cheminformatics, where researchers can analyze literature, run code, iterate on figures, and prepare manuscripts from one place. Available in beta for Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users.

To me, this is evidence that AI is entering technical and specialized work in a serious way, not just creative or administrative tasks. The barrier to integrating AI into scientific research just dropped considerably. Anthropic is also opening applications for up to 50 research projects with up to $30,000 in credits per team, with a deadline of July 15. If you work in life sciences, academic research, or pharma, I would apply before that window closes.

The question for those in research or data-intensive fields: which part of your current workflow, that today takes days or weeks, could be accelerated with AI tools preconfigured for your specific domain?