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Chemical reaction network and systems biology interface for scientific machine learning (SciML), enabling high-performance, GPU-parallelized simulation and analysis of complex biochemical systems with O(1) solvers (SciML, 518+ stars, Julia)

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)

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.

This package provides a periodic table of the elements with support for mass, density and xray/neutron scattering information.

Diffusion MR imaging.

A molecule manipulation library.

A compressor of common genomic file formats (BAM, CRAM, FASTQ, VCF etc).

Physics-informed neural networks in Julia

samtools/bcftools are a suite of tools for manipulating NGS data and can be used to call variants.

atomate2 is a library of computational materials science workflows.

Simulations of spiking neural networks.

SOTA multimodal document parsing with 1.2B parameters outperforming GPT-4o, converts PDFs to LLM-ready Markdown/JSON

Ontologies that aim to provide semantic specifications for units of measure, quantity kind, dimensions and data types.

Toolkit for large-scale whole-slide image processing supporting 22+ patch encoders (UNI, CONCH, Virchow, H-Optimus-0, etc.), slide encoders (TITAN, GigaPath, PRISM, CHIEF, Madeleine, Feather), tissue segmentation, and multi-GPU inference with end-to-end pipeline and smart resume for standardized deployment of computational pathology foundation models (Mahmood Lab, Harvard Medical School, 553+ stars)

Vision foundation model for the tree of life, pretrained on diverse biological imagery across taxa for zero-shot species identification, trait extraction, and biodiversity research (Ohio State University Imageomics Institute)

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)

A small language for defining pipeline stages and linking them together to make pipelines.

98B-parameter frontier generative model jointly reasoning over protein sequence, structure, and function, trained on 2.78 billion proteins; generated a novel fluorescent protein (esmGFP) with only 58% sequence identity to known GFPs (EvolutionaryScale, 2024)

The modern C++ library for sequence analysis.

An issue on the UBERON GitHub Issue tracker

Simulation of large-scale brain models

An object-oriented, webGL based JavaScript library for online molecular visualization.

AlphaFold 3 inference pipeline for unified biomolecular structure prediction of proteins, nucleic acids, small molecules, ions, and post-translational modifications (Google DeepMind, Nature 2024)

Biological vision foundation model trained on TreeOfLife-200M, yielding extraordinary accuracy on diverse biological visual tasks including habitat classification and trait prediction despite a narrow training objective (Ohio State University Imageomics Institute)

A collection of object-oriented software tools for problems involving chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and transport processes.

Julia differential equations suite

Machine learning interatomic potentials

SPAdes (St. Petersburg genome assembler) is an assembly toolkit containing various assembly pipelines and the de-facto standard for prokaryotic genome assemblies.

Closed-loop multi-agent system from hypothesis to verification across 12 scientific tasks, #1 on MLE-Bench (36.44%)

Benchmark quantifying end-to-end autonomous AI research abilities of LLM agents across 20 tasks from SOTA machine learning papers spanning NLP, code, math, biochemical modelling, and time series forecasting, with normalized score metrics against human SOTA and HuggingFace dataset

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)

First physics-aligned interactive benchmark for LLM agents in engineering construction, designing rockets/cars/bridges in physics simulator with 3D spatial geometry library

Directed message passing neural networks for property prediction of molecules and reactions with uncertainty and interpretation.

Benchmark evaluating AI agents on 75 curated Kaggle-style ML engineering competitions with reproducible Docker-based grading harness, human baselines, and end-to-end task lifecycle, used as a primary benchmark for autonomous ML research agents (e.g., InternAgent #1 at 36.44%)

Access to Biological Web Services from Python.

Dataset and benchmarking framework integrating histology and spatial transcriptomics, enabling multimodal analysis of whole-slide images with matched spatial gene expression for advancing computational pathology and tissue microenvironment research (Mahmood Lab, Harvard Medical School, 411+ stars)

Accessible protein design platform via Google Colab integrating AlphaFold2, RoseTTAFold, and ProteinMPNN for de novo hallucination, fixed backbone design, and binder design (Sergey Ovchinnikov, 2022+)

Agent skill for AI-assisted scientific manuscript writing review distilled from Stanford's *Writing in the Sciences* course, performing five sequential editorial audit passes on clarity, voice, structure, consistency, and integrity (2026)

Baidu's open-source reproduction of AlphaFold3 in PaddlePaddle, providing pretrained weights and inference pipelines for unified biomolecular structure prediction across proteins, nucleic acids, ligands, ions, and post-translational modifications within the PaddleHelix biocomputing platform (Baidu, bioRxiv 2024)

Ontology, part of the SI Reference Point, covering measurement units (SI base units and SI units with special names) and prefixes.

Genetic variant annotation and effect prediction toolbox.

A Python package for protein dynamics analysis

The Generative Artificial Intelligence Delegation Taxonomy (GAIDeT) assigns identifiers to contributor roles as an extension to the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) to support promoting transparency and accountability in academic publishing when AI contribtors are involved in research. It is operationalized in the [GAIDeT Declaration Generator](https://panbibliotekar.github.io/gaidet-declaration/), an interactive tool for researchers to disclose the delegation of tasks to generative AI (GAI) tools in accordance with the GAIDeT taxonomy.

This package addresses the mean-variance relationship in spatially resolved transcriptomics data. Precision weights are generated for individual observations using Empirical Bayes techniques. These weights are used to rescale the data and covariates, which are then used as input in spatially variable gene detection tools.

Multimodal deep learning framework integrating peptide-MHC protein sequence, structure, and biochemical properties to predict class-I immunogenicity for infectious disease epitopes and cancer neoepitopes with cancer-wildtype contrastive learning, enabling personalized vaccine design (Krishnaswamy Lab, Yale University)

GenBio AI's software stack for the AI-Driven Digital Organism, supporting adaptation and finetuning of multiscale biological foundation models across DNA, RNA, protein, structure, and single-cell tasks with reproducible CLIs and pretrained model zoo (2025)

Foundation models for genomics and transcriptomics pretrained on 3,000+ human genomes and 850+ diverse species, enabling chromatin accessibility prediction, splice site detection, and promoter classification across multiple model scales (InstaDeep, NVIDIA & TUM, Nature Methods 2023)

Universal pretrained neural network potential with charge and magnetic moment awareness, trained on 1.5M+ Materials Project inorganic structures for charge-informed molecular dynamics and phase diagram prediction (Berkeley, Nature Machine Intelligence 2023 Cover)

First fully autonomous open-ended scientific discovery system with official implementation: hypothesis→experiment→writing→review simulation (13.8K+ stars, 2024)