Anthropic has released Claude Science, a new desktop app that joins the existing Claude lineup on the Mac and brings dedicated research tools to scientists working with genomics, proteomics, and structural biology data. The app arrived in beta for macOS and Linux, and is compatible with Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans.
Claude Science is not a new model; it runs on the same Claude models already included in a user’s plan. What’s new is the layer of scientific tools, database connections, and compute integrations that let Claude execute full analyses on a user’s own infrastructure rather than just discuss the science. Anthropic’s reasoning is straightforward: a general-purpose AI assistant can talk about biology in the abstract, but it cannot run a pipeline, navigate scientific databases, orchestrate cluster jobs, or remember what happened in a previous session. Claude Science is built to do those things.
The app ships with analysis specialists covering genomics, single-cell analysis, proteomics, structural biology, and cheminformatics, among other domains, and it manages a separate compute environment for each specialist while saving full provenance on every result it produces. It also connects natively to more than 60 scientific databases and domain-specific open models. Claude Science taps skills built on NVIDIA’s BioNeMo Agent Toolkit to reach life sciences models and libraries inside BioNeMo, including Evo 2, Boltz-2, and OpenFold3, giving researchers a direct line into specialized models without leaving the Claude interface.
The launch fits a pattern that has been building since Anthropic shipped its first dedicated Claude Mac app in October 2024. The desktop lineup has steadily split into specialized modules: Claude AI to Xcode support brought Claude Code into the Mac app in November 2025, Claude Cowork exited research preview with enterprise features in April 2026, and Anthropic gave Claude the ability to remotely control a Mac, opening apps, navigating browsers, and filling spreadsheets, starting in March 2026. The company has also been building vertical-specific tools beyond general productivity, including Claude for Small Business in May 2026, which plugs into QuickBooks, PayPal, and HubSpot, and Claude Tag, an enterprise collaboration tool for agentic workflows that launched in June 2026. Claude Science is Anthropic’s first dedicated scientific-research vertical app, extending the same strategy behind Claude Design, building specialized wrapper experiences around the core Claude models rather than training a separate model for every use case.
Claude Science arrived the same day Anthropic rolled out Claude Sonnet 5, now the default model for both Free and Pro users, with introductory pricing of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens running through August 31, 2026.
The Claude Science app is available in beta on macOS and Linux for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans. You can download the Claude Science beta app from here.
