Anthropic just launched a brand-new desktop app called Claude Science. The new app joins the main Claude app on the Mac, which includes Claude AI, Cowork, and Code.

The new Claude Science app arrives in beta today for macOS and Linux. Anthropic says it “runs analyses, searches databases, and traces every step from data wrangling to publication, so you can spend time on science.”

Claude Science is a public beta app, not a model. It uses the same Claude models your plan includes. What’s new is everything around them: the scientific tools, database connections, and compute integrations that let Claude run full analyses on your own infrastructure.

Anthropic explains why the new Claude Science app exists:

General AI assistants can discuss biology, but they can’t run a pipeline, navigate scientific databases, orchestrate cluster jobs, or keep track of what happened in a previous session. Claude Science manages compute environments per specialist, and saves full provenance on every result. The app ships with analysis specialists for genomics, single-cell, proteomics, structural biology, cheminformatics, and more. It can connect natively to 60+ scientific databases and domain-specific open models. Claude Science uses the skills in NVIDIA’s BioNeMo Agent Toolkit to connect natively to the life sciences models and libraries in BioNeMo, including Evo 2, Boltz-2, and OpenFold3.

See the new desktop app in action below:

The app is compatible with Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans. Anthropic has detailed documentation all about the new Claude Science desktop app available here.

You can learn more about Claude Science app and find the download link here.