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Open-source construction ERP with AI-powered cost matching, BOQ generation, and PDF/CAD/BIM takeoff; 42 regional catalogues, 21 languages, 71 modules (DataDrivenConstruction, 717+ stars, AGPL-3.0, 2026)

World's first fully open, accelerated weather AI software stack with Medium Range forecasting and Nowcasting models using generative AI (January 2026)

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)

Fast, interactive, multi-dimensional image viewer for Python, foundational platform for scientific imaging AI with a rich plugin ecosystem integrating deep learning segmentation, object tracking, and microscopy analysis workflows (2.6K+ stars)

Turn any AI agent into a life science expert with NVIDIA BioNeMo skills, enabling agentic workflows for drug discovery, protein engineering, and biomolecular design (329+ stars, Apache 2.0 / CC-BY-4.0, 2026)

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)

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)

Open-source AI workbench for scientific research that automates the full research loop — literature review, hypothesis generation, code writing, experiment execution, database querying, and report writing — with 290+ skills, specialized research agents, and a browser-based workspace (1453+ stars, Apache 2.0, 2026)

Universal components for differentiable scientific computing, packaging heterogeneous scientific tools into self-contained, portable, gradient-propagating components with auto-generated schemas, CLI/REST API/Python SDK interfaces, and reproducible deployment across local, cloud, and HPC environments (105+ stars, Apache 2.0)

Motivation-driven academic writing system for Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, and Hermes CLI that learns from strong papers, builds evidence-aware central-argument blueprints, and rewrites manuscripts with revision matrices and LaTeX-safe audits (4.9K+ stars, MIT License, 2026)

Local-first autonomous research system implementing a Git-like research protocol for long-running scientific discovery; explores competing explanations, executes experiments inside an isolation boundary, self-criticizes results, and exports the entire path as typed Agent-Native Research Artifacts (ARA) with exploration DAGs, claim-to-evidence anchors, content hashes, and re-execution hooks (126+ stars, Apache 2.0, arXiv 2026)

NVIDIA's open-source platform for building and adapting biological AI models at scale, bundling ESM-2, Geneformer, MolMIM and DNA embedding models with recipes for single-GPU to multi-node training (2025)

Machine learning interatomic potentials

High-performance, GPU-accelerated library for key computational chemistry tasks including molecular similarity, conformer generation, and geometry relaxation, designed to accelerate drug-discovery and molecular-modeling workflows (264+ stars, Apache 2.0)

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

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)

Neural network-based exchange-correlation functional for density functional theory (DFT) that surpasses state-of-the-art hybrid functionals in accuracy for main-group thermochemistry, kinetics, and non-covalent interactions at semi-local DFT cost; includes PySCF/GPU4PySCF/ASE bindings and C++/Fortran integrations (248+ stars, MIT License)

Machine learning and statistical learning for neuroimaging in Python, providing easy-to-use tools for fMRI and MRI analysis including decoding, connectivity estimation, and parcellation with seamless scikit-learn integration (INRIA Parietal team, 1.4K+ stars)

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)

Local-first, open-source AI workbench for scientists — an open alternative to Claude Science (by ai4s-research, maintainers of this list; TypeScript, MIT, 2026)

GPU-accelerated differentiable physics simulation engine built on NVIDIA Warp, supporting rigid/soft body, cloth, and gradient-based optimization for scientific ML, initiated by Disney Research, DeepMind, and NVIDIA (Linux Foundation, Apache 2.0, 2025)

Open-source framework for building physics-ML models at scale (renamed from Modulus, 2025)

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)

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

Automated pipeline for proteome-scale protein-protein interaction screening with AlphaFold-Multimer and AlphaFold 3, supporting flexible inputs (UniProt IDs, FASTA, residue regions, multimers, AF3 JSON features) and integrated downstream analysis for hit prioritization (Kosinski Lab, EMBL, Nature Protocols 2024, 317+ stars, GPL-3.0)

Modular framework for AI-driven scientific and algorithmic discovery, providing a unified interface for implementing, running, and fairly comparing discovery algorithms across 200+ optimization tasks; introduces AdaEvolve and EvoX adaptive/evolutionary algorithms and natively supports OpenEvolve, GEPA, and Harbor-format benchmarks (skydiscover-ai, 568+ stars, Apache 2.0, 2026)

Modern LLM-native agent simulation platform for social science research and experimental design, providing a flexible framework for creating and managing intelligent agents in simulated environments (Tsinghua FIB Lab, 984+ stars, 2025)

Open-source PDF parser for AI-ready data, converting PDFs into Markdown/JSON/HTML/Tagged PDF with layout analysis and reading-order detection; ranks #1 overall on extraction benchmarks with deterministic bounding boxes and hybrid AI mode (26K+ stars, Apache 2.0)

Neural differential equations in Julia

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)

Transformer encoder-decoder for de novo peptide sequencing from tandem mass spectrometry, translating MS/MS spectra directly to peptide sequences without reference databases, enabling identification of novel peptides for immunopeptidomics, antibody repertoires, and metaproteomes (Noble Lab UW, Nature Communications 2024)

Cross-platform library for differentiable programming of quantum computers with automatic differentiation, enabling hybrid quantum-classical machine learning for quantum chemistry, quantum physics, and NISQ algorithm research (Xanadu, 3k+ stars)

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)

Google DeepMind's unified DNA sequence foundation model predicting molecular consequences of genetic variants from single-base resolution up to 1 megabase context, jointly outputting thousands of regulatory tracks (RNA expression, splicing, chromatin accessibility, TF binding, contact maps) for human and mouse genomes via a Python client and non-commercial API (2025)

Julia differential equations suite

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)

Open-source, all-atom biomolecular foundation model that turns co-folding into a scalable engine for structure prediction, design, and optimization across proteins, nucleic acids, and small molecules in drug discovery; ranked first on PXMeter-AB, FoldBench-AB, and 2026ARK-AB antibody-antigen benchmarks (263+ stars, Apache 2.0)

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)

First unified Lean 4 framework for neural-network specification, execution, and verification; tensor shapes are part of the types, models are executable Lean programs, and the same definitions can be used by training code, graph transformations, certificate checkers, and proofs with CPU/CUDA backends (123+ stars, MIT License)

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

Semi-autonomous AI scientist for scientific theory discovery and verifiable goal solving, using adversarial review-refinement loops and evolution-inspired candidate populations; integrates with Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, and Codex harnesses (Imbue, 31+ stars, AGPL-3.0, 2026)

Multi-type data labeling and annotation tool

Python toolkit for fine-tuning geospatial foundation models

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)

Open-source image analysis toolkit for high-throughput plant phenotyping, extracting morphological, color, and texture traits from RGB, hyperspectral, and thermal imagery with modular Python workflows for crop improvement, stress detection, and plant biology research (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, 795+ stars, MPL-2.0)

Unified Python framework for bulk, single-cell, and spatial RNA-seq multi-omics analysis with deep learning deconvolution (VAE) and graph neural networks, bridging Bindea, Bindea, scanpy and squidpy ecosystems (Nature Communications 2024)

AI-assisted structural engineering workspace for AEC workflows: natural language to structural model, analysis, code-check, and report (171+ stars, MIT License, 2026)

Simple and accurate de novo protein binder design pipeline using AlphaFold2 backpropagation, MPNN, and PyRosetta for automated binder discovery (bioRxiv 2024)

Satellite-powered agricultural and land analytics platform combining Sentinel-2 imagery, Google Earth Engine processing, real-time weather data, soil science databases, and AI-driven crop planning into a unified web dashboard (145+ stars, AGPL-3.0, 2026)