What is Claude for Life Sciences
Claude for Life Sciences enhances Claude with specialized capabilities for life sciences research. It connects Claude to the data sources and tools scientists use daily, eliminating the need to toggle between platforms and enabling insights that span your entire R&D ecosystem to accelerate discovery timelines while maintaining publication-quality scientific rigor.
Scientific research and discovery connectors
Through Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors and desktop extensions, Claude connects directly to leading platforms and databases, enabling you to query data using natural language and receive responses with source citations.
Benchling* connects Claude to Benchling R&D platform data, enabling scientists to ask questions and receive clear summaries with links back to source experiments, notebooks, and structured records—all while maintaining existing access permissions.
10x Genomics* transforms single cell and spatial analysis into a simple, conversational workflow. Biologists can easily analyze their own sequencing data, while core labs can quickly perform batch processing.
PubMed provides access to millions of biomedical research articles and clinical studies, allowing Claude to access abstracts and full papers to clarify experimental approaches, identify key findings, determine novelty and applicability, and surface specific papers for deeper exploration
Synapse.org allows researchers to discover biomedical data across all of Synapse, see the structure of projects, and retrieve information on their data assets for authorized users.
BioRender searches BioRender’s extensive scientific figure template and icon collection for relevant content to create figures faster.
Scholar Gateway by Wiley provides authenticated access to the most relevant snippets of scientific research papers to utilize within Claude.
*Available as Desktop Extensions for access on Claude Desktop App (download here).
Claude also includes Connectors to other workplace and productivity platforms like Microsoft 365, Gmail & Google Drive, Box, Databricks, Slack, and many more. Explore all available Claude Connectors here.
Finally, custom connectors allow you to connect to tools that aren't yet listed in Claude's directory. Learn more about setting up custom connectors here.
Common research & discovery use cases
Advanced data analysis and hypothesis generation: Synthesize multi-source data to accelerate discovery cycles from weeks to hours.
Literature synthesis with citations: Access abstracts and full papers to clarify experimental approaches, identify key findings, determine novelty and applicability, and surface specific papers for deeper exploration.
Protocol optimization: Generate optimized protocols by synthesizing literature, successful existing protocols, and experimental best practices.
Single-cell data processing: Synthesize days of bioinformatics and computational analysis in minutes with automated cell population identification.
Experimental design automation: Generate literature-informed experimental designs automatically.
Figure interpretation and analysis: Accelerate figure creation and analysis with automated visualization.
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