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AI coding agent skills for KiCad electronics design that turn Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and other coding agents into full electronics design assistants; parses schematics and PCB layouts, builds power trees, audits connectors/ESD protection, validates passive networks, runs SPICE simulation, sources components from major distributors, and prepares boards for fabrication (aklofas, 974+ stars, MIT License, 2026)

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)

Medical large vision-language model unifying comprehension and generation via heterogeneous knowledge adaptation, enabling holistic medical image understanding, visual question answering, and clinical report generation across diverse modalities (ZJU4HealthCare, 1.6K+ stars)

Microsoft's foundation model for the Earth system supporting weather, air pollution, and ocean wave forecasting at multiple resolutions, trained on 1M+ hours of diverse atmospheric data (Nature 2025)

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

Meta's comprehensive ML ecosystem for materials/chemistry with 118M+ DFT calculations, EquiformerV2 models achieving top Matbench Discovery performance

PyTorch-based embedding instance segmentation algorithm optimized for accurate, efficient, and portable cell and nucleus segmentation across fluorescence and brightfield microscopy images, achieving state-of-the-art speed and accuracy with lightweight model sizes suitable for edge deployment (224+ stars, Apache 2.0)

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)

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)

Acausal modeling framework for automatically parallelized scientific machine learning (1.5k+ stars)

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)

Deep learning atomistic model across elements, temperatures, and pressures

Large transformer-based single-cell foundation model pretrained on 50 million cells for robust gene network inference, expression denoising, cell embedding, and zero-shot label prediction, leveraging ESM2 protein embeddings and bidirectional transformer architecture (Cantini Lab, 148+ stars, GPL-3.0)

Biomedical AI agents

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)

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)

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)

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)

Scientific machine learning benchmarks & differential equation solvers

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)

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

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

Phylogeny-aware genomic language model trained on whole-genome alignments across multiple evolutionary timescales, predicting functional constraints and variant effects for human, mouse, chicken, fly, worm, and Arabidopsis genomes (344+ stars, MIT License)

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

AI-driven desktop workbench for computational materials science with an interactive 3D structure editor, natural-language CatBot assistant, visual DAG workflow engine, remote-cluster access, and HPC job submission for VASP, ORCA, CP2K, Quantum ESPRESSO, GPAW, DFTB+, SIESTA, and LAMMPS (172+ stars, AGPL-3.0, 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)

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)

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)

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)

15TB collection of 16 large-scale numerical simulation datasets spanning fluid dynamics, MHD, astrophysics, biological systems, and acoustic scattering, with unified PyTorch dataloaders and benchmarks for training foundation models on physical sciences (Polymathic AI, NeurIPS 2024)

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

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

Curated collection of 23,000+ agent skills for empirical research across 8 social science disciplines, enabling reproducible social science research with AI agents (Stanford REAP & CoPaper.AI, 3K+ stars, 2026)

Scientific taste learning framework showing AI can judge and propose research ideas with long-term impact; trains Scientific Judge as a generative reward model and Scientific Thinker as an ideation policy using Reinforcement Learning from Community Feedback (RLCF) on large-scale citation signals, with SciJudgeBench and released HuggingFace model weights (425+ stars, Apache 2.0, 2026)

A toolbox for machine learning in seismology, providing unified interfaces for deep learning seismic phase picking, earthquake detection, and waveform analysis across multiple benchmark datasets and pretrained models (397+ stars, actively maintained)

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)

Multi-PDF conversation, retrieval, and citation in Zotero with commercial/local models (Ollama), MCP support

SDK & library for AI-driven scientific computing applications

200+ AI for Science papers with Chinese interpretations

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)