Claude Science, launched by Anthropic on June 30, 2026, gives researchers a coordinating AI agent that receives a plain-language request and breaks it into subtasks, delegating each to domain-specialized sub-agents pre-configured for genomics, single-cell RNA sequencing, proteomics, structural biology, and cheminformatics, among other scientific workflows.
Anthropic built it explicitly as a workflow product rather than a new model: Claude Science runs the same Claude models already available to every subscriber, including Opus 4.8, with no special access or gating, but prioritizes reproducibility so a scientist can trace any figure or result back to its source and verify it. Anthropic is also funding up to 50 research projects directly with grants of up to $30,000 in compute credits each.
Claude Science is included for any paid Claude subscriber, with Claude Pro starting around $20 a month. For a computational biology or drug-discovery researcher who wants one request automatically routed to the right domain-specialized sub-agent, with traceable, reproducible results, rather than manually coordinating separate tools for each step, Claude Science's coordinating-agent architecture addresses that directly.
