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A two-step desktop GUI application for RNA-seq differential gene expression (DEG) analysis. Step 1 reads raw GDC/TCGA STAR gene-count files together with a GDC sample sheet, matches samples to a Tumor/Normal design, and runs PyDESeq2 to produce normalized counts and DEG statistics. Step 2 generates publication-style volcano plots, MA plots, summary bar charts, and expression heatmaps (with optional gene labeling) from the results, exportable as PNG, PDF, SVG, or TIFF. Requires no coding from the user.

AI coding assistant for JupyterLab with agent mode, supporting arbitrary LLM providers (2025+)

Agent-agnostic research infrastructure providing AI agents with a structured scientific workspace for deep PDF parsing, hybrid semantic/keyword literature search, citation-graph analysis, topic discovery, and academic writing workflows; natively integrates with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline, and AgentSkills.io (530+ stars, MIT License, 2026)

Non-invasive decoding of typed sentences from MEG and EEG brain recordings using a convolutional encoder, transformer, and character-level language model; official code for the Nature Neuroscience paper and Meta blog post on brain-AI communication (Meta FAIR, 894+ stars, CC BY-NC 4.0, 2026)

Python Materials Genomics: robust materials analysis library defining classes for structures and molecules with support for many electronic structure codes; foundational toolkit powering the Materials Project (Berkeley Lab, 1.8K+ stars)

Open-source SDK for working with quantum computers at the level of extended quantum circuits, operators, and primitives, enabling quantum algorithm development for quantum chemistry, materials science, and optimization research (IBM, 7.4K+ stars, Apache 2.0)

A package to 'build' collections of materials properties from the output of computational materials calculations.

StaphScope is an automated, locally-executable computational pipeline designed specifically for comprehensive Staphylococcus aureus genomic surveillance. It addresses the critical bottleneck in MRSA research by integrating seven essential genotyping methods into a single, cohesive workflow.

Deep learning atomistic model across elements, temperatures, and pressures

Parallel computing with task scheduling.

Local-first, conversational AI research partner for multi-omics analysis with CLI, desktop app, and 95+ reproducible skills; keeps raw data local while routing natural-language requests to Python/R/CLI tools with persistent memory, autonomous analysis paths, and multi-method consensus workflows (TianGzlab, 155+ stars, Apache 2.0, 2026)

Agent skills (SKILL.md + deterministic tools) for the AI4S workflow — topic exploration, literature survey, runnable experiments, publication-grade papers, and integrity audit, with every citation and number traceable to its source (by ai4s-research, maintainers of this list; MIT, 2026)

PyTorch-native atomistic simulation engine for the machine-learned interatomic potential (MLIP) era, enabling batched molecular dynamics and structural relaxation with automatic GPU memory management; supports MACE, Fairchem, SevenNet, ORB, MatterSim and other popular MLIPs with up to 100x speedup over ASE (Radical AI, AI for Science 2026, 468+ stars, MIT License)

AcinetoScope is an automated, comprehensive bioinformatics pipeline designed specifically for the genomic analysis of Acinetobacter baumannii, a WHO Critical Priority pathogen responsible for devastating hospital-acquired infections. It integrates seven analysis types (MLST, ABRicate, AMRFinder, Kaptive 3, APT, PlasmidFinder, and mutation detection) into a single automated workflow — from FASTA to actionable insights. The pipeline offers both gene-centric and sample-centric reporting, dynamic grouping by typing, and is optimised for HPC, cloud, and container environments.

Fully open-source (Apache 2.0) biomolecular structure prediction reproducing AlphaFold3, free for academic and commercial use (Columbia AlQuraishi Lab & OpenFold Consortium, 2025)

Ensemble of automated machine learning protocols that can be run sequentially through a single command line. The program works for regression and classification problems.

University of Cambridge's foundation model for time-series satellite imagery, enabling efficient extraction of temporal patterns from Earth observation for land classification, canopy height prediction, and other remote sensing tasks

Predicts transcription factor binding sites in up to 316 vertebrate species by scoring JASPAR matrices against Ensembl promoter sequences and combining the match with seven contextual experimental datapoints, including evolutionary conservation, CAGE-defined transcription start sites, eQTLs, ChIP-seq peaks, ATAC-seq accessibility, DNase footprints and gene expression correlation, into a single score per site.

A local command-line tool for ancestral sequence reconstruction with gap-state inference using IQ-TREE. It supports nucleotide, amino acid, and codon sequence alignments and reports site-wise posterior probabilities of ancestral states.

RiSPICE (Rice SNP Prioritization Integrating Chromatin Effects) is a computational framework for prioritizing non-coding rice variants by integrating predicted chromatin effects from a fine-tuned DNA language model.

REFUTE is an open benchmark for scientific critique honesty and epistemic calibration on recent life-science and biomedical literature. It tests whether models keep claims inside what the evidence allows (overclaim / planted-flaw / falsifier selection) and whether stated confidence is calibrated, with judge-free MCQ axes plus open-ended critique scoring.

Microsoft's AI-powered geospatial Earth science application for natural-language exploration, visualization, and analysis of 130+ satellite collections, with STAC integration, multi-agent backend, MCP server, and deployable React/FastAPI stack (MIT, 2025)

The Open Forcefield Toolkit provides implementations of the SMIRNOFF format, parameterization engine, and other tools.

197 bioinformatics and life science skills for Claude Code and AI agents, achieving 92.0% accuracy on BixBench. Covers RNA-seq, single-cell analysis, drug discovery, proteomics, and more. Powers OmicsHorizon (195+ stars, 2026)

Deep learning package for many-body potential energy representation and molecular dynamics, achieving quantum-mechanical accuracy with classical MD efficiency (DeepModeling, Gordon Bell Prize 2020, 1.9k+ stars)

Machine learning model predicting cellular perturbation response across diverse contexts with State Transition (ST) and State Embedding (SE) variants, featuring CLI tooling, PyPI distribution, and Virtual Cell Challenge integration (575+ stars)

Developer toolkit for accelerating training and inference for AI in chemistry and material science, providing optimized GPU-accelerated workflows for molecular and materials machine learning (NVIDIA, 2026)

Python astronomy tools

Differentiable tokamak core transport simulator for fusion energy research, coupling PDE solvers with JAX auto-differentiation and neural-network surrogates for fast forward modelling, pulse-design, and trajectory optimization (Google DeepMind, Apache 2.0)

First open-source agentic AI physicist turning research questions into structured workflows with rigorous verification and multi-step analytical work for long-horizon physics projects; integrates with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and OpenCode (804+ stars, Apache 2.0, 2026)

nnU-Net is a self-configuring method for deep learning-based biomedical image segmentation, developed by the Applied Computer Vision Lab (ACVL) of Helmholtz Imaging and the Division of Medical Image Computing at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). It is designed to automatically adapt to a given dataset, analyzing the provided training cases to configure a matching U-Net-based segmentation pipeline without requiring expertise from the user. The tool provides pretrained models for Pancreas and Pancreas tumor segmentation, Colon cancer primaries segmentation, Abdominal organ segmentation, Liver and liver tumor segmentation, Kidney and kidney tumor segmentation, Brain Tumor segmentation and Hippocampus (MR data) segmentation

Tools for adding mutations to existing `.bam` files, used for testing mutation callers.

Democratizing AI scientists by transforming any LLM into research systems with 600+ scientific tools (Harvard MIMS)

Deep probabilistic framework for single-cell and spatial omics analysis, integrating scVI, scANVI, totalVI and other VAE-based models for batch correction, cell annotation, multi-omics integration, and RNA velocity (scverse/NumFOCUS, Nature Methods 2018/2024)

Create MSP files containing the isotopic patterns for given molecules with given adducts. The tool is based on enviPat and the RforMassSpectrometry toolbox.

SDK & library for AI-driven scientific computing applications

Graph neural network interatomic potential package supporting efficient multi-GPU parallel molecular dynamics simulations, enabling large-scale atomistic modeling with machine learning potentials (MDIL-SNU, MIT License)

Evolvable and privacy-preserving multi-agent framework automating, scaling, and accelerating data sciences with a particular focus on end-to-end single-cell biology analyses; features agentic code evolution, multi-agent team orchestration, distributed architecture, and a community marketplace with 1,000+ curated agents and skills (428+ stars)

Freely available tools for biological computing in Python, with included cookbook, packaging and thorough documentation. Part of the [Open Bioinformatics Foundation](http://open-bio.org/). Contains the very useful [Entrez](https://biopython.org/DIST/docs/api/Bio.Entrez-module.html) package for API access to the NCBI databases.

Robust, lightweight infrastructure for multi-agent autonomous self-evolution, built for autoresearch; agents run in isolated git worktrees, share knowledge through a common state directory, and are scored by a grader daemon; natively integrated with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor Agent, OpenCode, and Kiro (672+ stars, Apache 2.0)

Comprehensive collection of 125+ ready-to-use scientific skill modules for Claude AI across bioinformatics, cheminformatics, clinical research, ML, and materials science

SMBGC Annotation using Neural Networks Trained on Interpro Signatures

Benchmark evaluating AI agents on complex real-world scientific workflows in terminal environments across life, physical, earth, and mathematical sciences; featured on model cards for Claude Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5, and Gemini 3.1 Pro (200+ stars, Apache 2.0)

Whole-slide pathology foundation model trained on 1.3 billion image tiles from 171K slides using a LongNet-based architecture to encode gigapixel-scale WSIs for cancer subtyping and biomarker prediction (Microsoft Research & Providence, 601+ stars)

A Simulation Tool for Fractured and Deformable Porous Media.

Language agent gymnasium for challenging scientific tasks including DNA manipulation, literature search, and protein engineering

High-performance symbolic regression for discovering interpretable scientific equations from data, multi-population evolutionary search with Python/Julia backend, widely used in physics and astronomy (Cambridge, NeurIPS 2023)

NVIDIA and King's College London's open-source AI toolkit for healthcare imaging, providing foundational frameworks for medical image annotation (MONAI Label), training (MONAI Core), and deployment (MONAI Deploy) across radiology, pathology, and endoscopy (8K+ stars, Apache 2.0)

Curated, multilingual library of 182 installable AI agent skills for end-to-end academic research spanning literature discovery, scientific writing, grant development, bioinformatics, drug discovery, clinical research, machine learning, and data analysis (779+ stars, MIT License, 2026)

JCVI is a versatile toolkit for comparative genomics analysis. It is a collection of Python libraries to parse bioinformatics files, or perform computation related to assembly, annotation, and comparative genomics.