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Free, open-source desktop AI research assistant that runs locally and turns natural-language requests into real data analysis, literature search, figure generation, and manuscript review; ships with 149 scientific skills, 326 workflow templates, and 229 databases across genomics, proteomics, drug discovery, and materials science, plus a living lab notebook, 60+ scientific file previews, and LaTeX editing (K-Dense-AI, 908+ stars, MIT License, 2026)

Turn any AI agent into an AI Scientist. The #1 Agent Skills library for science with 140+ ready-to-use skills and 100+ scientific databases covering biology, chemistry, medicine, and drug discovery. Compatible with Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, and the open Agent Skills standard (K-Dense-AI, 26K+ stars, 2025)

Deep learning-based bioacoustic monitoring framework for automated bird species identification from audio recordings, supporting 6,000+ species globally with real-time analysis, batch processing, and API deployment; foundational tool in biodiversity research, conservation biology, and ecological acoustic monitoring (Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 1.5K+ stars, MIT License)

Modular Python suite for Neuro-AI research across all modalities, providing efficient data loaders (NeuralSet), curated datasets (NeuralFetch), scalable training (NeuralTrain), and unified benchmarking (NeuralBench) for building and evaluating neuroscience foundation models (Meta FAIR, 270+ stars, MIT License, 2026)

Offline-first scientific writing workspace powered by Claude, integrating LaTeX, Python, and 100+ scientific skills with local execution, Zotero integration, and privacy-focused design (2026)

Research ecosystem for rigorous and trustworthy AI scientists — a protocol and skill bundle that makes autonomous research verifiable, crystallized, and observable through structured, machine-executable research artifacts and five agent skills for research management, compilation, verification, visualization, and publication (ARA-Labs, 447+ stars, MIT License, 2026)

Composite-objective protein design framework integrating Boltz, AlphaFold2, OpenFold3, ProteinMPNN, and ESM via JAX-based gradient optimization over continuous relaxed sequence space for multi-property binder design (319+ stars, MIT License, 2025)

LLM papers for scientific discovery

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)

Collection of SKILLS.md guiding AI coding agents (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Google Gemini, OpenCode, OpenClaw) through common bioinformatics workflows from basic sequence manipulation to advanced analyses such as single-cell RNA-seq and population genetics; evaluated on the Bio-Task Bench dataset (GPTomics, 969+ stars, MIT License, 2026)

Neural differential equations in Julia

Interactive and hardware-agnostic SDK for laboratory automation, enabling programmatic control of liquid handlers, plate readers, and other lab instruments across multiple vendors; foundational infrastructure for self-driving laboratories and AI-driven experimental execution (447+ stars)

Medical time series foundation model pretrained on 454B time points from heterogeneous clinical corpora spanning ICU physiological signals and hospital EHR, with continuous-time rotary positional encoding, frequency-specialized Mixture-of-Experts, and neural ODE extrapolation for zero-shot forecasting across irregular and multimodal temporal health data (Microsoft, 399+ stars, MIT License)

Semi-automated research assistant for academic research and software development, supporting Claude Code, Codex CLI, Kimi Code CLI, and OpenCode across ideation, coding, experiments, writing, and publication (Galaxy-Dawn, 4.5K+ stars, MIT License, 2026)

First agentic LLM for autonomous data science with end-to-end pipeline from data to analyst-grade reports

First bioinformatics-native AI agent skill library enabling local-first, reproducible genomic and population-genetics research workflows built on OpenClaw (871+ stars, MIT License, 2026)

Beyond text-to-slides generation with PPTEval multi-dimensional evaluation (EMNLP 2025)

Lightweight Markdown-only skills for autonomous ML research with cross-model review loops, idea discovery, and experiment automation; no framework lock-in, works with Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, or any LLM agent (12.8K+ stars, MIT License, 2026)

Multi-LLM consensus framework for automated cell type annotation in single-cell transcriptomics, integrating predictions from 10+ large language models with iterative discussion and uncertainty quantification to reduce single-model biases, achieving up to 95% accuracy without reference datasets; available as CRAN R package and PyPI Python package with Scanpy/Seurat integration (2025)

Biomedical Model Context Protocol (MCP) server unifying literature search across PubMed/Europe PMC, entity pivoting across genes/variants/drugs/diseases/pathways/proteins, local study analytics, and Claude Code/Codex integration for agentic biomedical research (531+ stars, MIT License, 2025-2026)

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)

E(3)-equivariant neural network interatomic potentials achieving DFT accuracy with up to 1000× less training data than invariant models, foundational architecture behind MACE and Allegro (Harvard, MIT, Nature Communications 2022)

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

Cross-domain foundation model for continuum dynamics trained on 19 physical scenarios spanning 63 variables, featuring adaptive compute via stride modulation and patch jittering for long-run stability (Polymathic AI, 293+ stars, MIT License)

Benchmark evaluating AI agents for end-to-end automated research from re-discovery to new-discovery, with 40 real-science tasks across 10 disciplines, curated datasets from published papers, and expert-curated multimodal rubrics (170+ stars, MIT License)

MCP server, CLI, and agent skills for searching and downloading academic papers from multiple open sources (arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, CORE, Europe PMC, etc.) with unified, deduplicated, LLM-friendly retrieval and an OA-first download fallback chain (OpenAGS, 1.9K+ stars, MIT License, 2025)

Community-driven model zoo and deployment infrastructure for AI-powered bioimage analysis, enabling standardized sharing, validation, and cross-platform execution of deep learning models across Fiji, Ilastik, napari, and other scientific imaging tools (EPFL, EMBL, and global collaborators, actively maintained)

Curated library of 550+ medical research agent skills spanning evidence insights, protocol design, omics/clinical data analysis, and academic writing; each skill is reviewed through MedSkillAudit and compatible with Claude Code, Codex, Open Code, OpenClaw, and SKILL.md-compatible agents (AIPOCH, 1.2K+ stars, MIT License, 2026)

Unified interface for local, global, gradient-based and derivative-free optimization (800+ stars)

Deep learning library for Chemistry based on Tensorflow

Unified Python framework for extracellular electrophysiology, standardizing interfaces to 10+ ML-based spike sorting algorithms including Kilosort for reproducible neural spike sorting workflows (792+ stars, actively maintained)

Python package for segmenting geospatial data with the Segment Anything Model (SAM), enabling zero-shot object segmentation in satellite and aerial imagery for remote sensing and Earth observation (MIT, 4k+ stars)

AlphaFold/ESMFold accessible implementation with AF3 JSON export, database updates

Co-create PowerPoint presentations with Generative AI from documents or topics

PyTorch domain library for geospatial deep learning providing standardized datasets, samplers, transforms, and pre-trained models for remote sensing, land cover mapping, and environmental monitoring (Microsoft, 4K+ stars)

Graph neural network library for PyTorch enabling molecular modeling, materials discovery, protein interaction networks, and scientific knowledge graph learning (23.7k+ stars)

Diffusion-based document OCR framework replacing autoregressive decoding with block-level parallel diffusion decoding, enabling high-accuracy text recognition in scientific PDFs (613+ stars, MIT License)

Design, conduct and analyze results of AI-powered surveys and experiments. Simulate social science and market research with large numbers of AI agents and LLMs (460+ stars, 2024)

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)

Deep learning atomistic model across elements, temperatures, and pressures

Cross-platform system optimizations for accelerating AlphaFold3 training with 1.73x speedup and 1.23x memory reduction

Open-source LLM-powered R&D agent framework automating data-driven AI solution building through automated research, development, and evolution; achieves top open-source performance on MLE-Bench with dual Researcher-Developer agents and supports research copilot, data mining, Kaggle, and quant R&D workflows (13.6K+ stars, MIT License, 2025-2026)

Genomic foundation model for metagenomic and genome annotation, featuring an 8k base-pair context and 500M parameters trained on 386B base pairs of eukaryotic DNA; provides expert models and a unified CLI for prokaryotic/eukaryotic coding-sequence annotation with strong performance on Genomic Benchmarks, Nucleotide Transformer tasks, and custom Gener tasks (GenerTeam, 314+ stars, MIT License)

MCP server enabling spatial transcriptomics analysis via natural language, integrating 60+ methods including SpaGCN, Cell2location, LIANA+, CellRank for Visium, Xenium, MERFISH platforms

Python library to train, interpret, and apply deep learning models to DNA sequences, providing a unified framework for regulatory genomics with support for CNN and transformer architectures, variant effect prediction, and attribution analysis (325+ stars)

General-purpose deep learning backbone for molecular modeling

Microsoft's generative model for sampling protein equilibrium conformations 100,000× faster than MD simulations, predicting domain motions, local unfolding and cryptic binding pockets on a single GPU (Science 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)

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)

Physics-Informed Neural networks for Advanced modeling in PyTorch