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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)

BOLD-Local-DB converts the public TSV/tar.gz data package downloaded from BOLD Systems into a local, indexed SQLite database that can be searched entirely offline. It has two components: a Creator (desktop GUI) that filters, imports, indexes, and optionally adds full-text search to the downloaded data; and a local web viewer for advanced field search, full-text search, batch search by term list, and CSV/FASTA export. Intended for researchers who need to query large BOLD exports (DNA barcode records, taxonomy, collection metadata) repeatedly without depending on an internet connection or BOLD's rate limits.

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)

Framework for processing and visualization of chromatographically separated and single-spectra mass spectral data. Imports from AIA/ANDI NetCDF, mzXML, mzData and mzML files. Preprocesses data for high-throughput, untargeted analyte profiling.

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)

PureJsImage is a free, open-source TypeScript library for decoding, inspecting, processing, and converting ordinary images and scientific rasters in Node.js and modern browsers. It provides explicit readers for microscopy, whole-slide pathology, medical imaging, electron microscopy, spectroscopy, hyperspectral, and multidimensional array formats. These include OME-TIFF, OME-Zarr, Aperio SVS, DICOM, NIfTI, MRC/CCP4, NRRD, DigitalMicrograph, EMD, ENVI, and FITS. Range-backed readers can request selected regions, tiles, volume planes, and metadata while preserving native numeric samples where supported. The default package has no runtime dependencies. Optional JPEG and PNG WebAssembly accelerators require explicit registration.

MEG and EEG.

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

Translate differential transcript usage results into discrete splice events.

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)

RAiSD-AI is a tool for training, testing, and deploying Convolutional Neural Networks to detect selective sweeps in genomic data, extending the functionality of the original RAiSD software with machine learning capabilities. It supports SNP data processing, CNN model training with TensorFlow or PyTorch, and genome-wide selective sweep detection.

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)

A structural pharmacology workbench for cognition-related CNS targets, built so that a displayed number must trace to a computation. Runs Boltz-2 locally for structure prediction, validates chemistry with RDKit, enforces a provenance record on every value, and reports eight studies pre-registered under content hashes before any data was seen. Its headline result is negative: designed peptides did not separate from composition-matched shuffles of their own amino acids.

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

The tidySummarizedExperiment package provides a set of tools for creating and manipulating tidy data representations of SummarizedExperiment objects. SummarizedExperiment is a widely used data structure in bioinformatics for storing high-throughput genomic data, such as gene expression or DNA sequencing data. The tidySummarizedExperiment package introduces a tidy framework for working with SummarizedExperiment objects. It allows users to convert their data into a tidy format, where each observation is a row and each variable is a column. This tidy representation simplifies data manipulation, integration with other tidyverse packages, and enables seamless integration with the broader ecosystem of tidy tools for data analysis.

SpectralTAD is an R package designed to identify Topologically Associated Domains (TADs) from Hi-C contact matrices. It uses a modified version of spectral clustering that uses a sliding window to quickly detect TADs. The function works on a range of different formats of contact matrices and returns a bed file of TAD coordinates. The method does not require users to adjust any parameters to work and gives them control over the number of hierarchical levels to be returned.

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)

The Zarr specification defines a format for chunked, compressed, N-dimensional arrays. It's design allows efficient access to subsets of the stored array, and supports both local and cloud storage systems. Rarr aims to implement this specification in R with minimal reliance on an external tools or libraries.

Provides a consistent C++ class interface for reading from a variety of commonly used matrix types. Ordinary matrices and several sparse/dense Matrix classes are directly supported, along with a subset of the delayed operations implemented in the DelayedArray package. All other matrix-like objects are supported by calling back into R.

markeR is an R package that provides a modular and extensible framework for the systematic evaluation of gene sets as phenotypic markers using transcriptomic data. The package is designed to support both quantitative analyses and visual exploration of gene set behaviour across experimental and clinical phenotypes. It implements multiple methods, including score-based and enrichment approaches, and also allows the exploration of expression behaviour of individual genes. In addition, users can assess the similarity of their own gene sets against established collections (e.g., those from MSigDB), facilitating biological interpretation.

Manipulation and analysis of geometric objects.

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)

Imputes HLA classical alleles using GWAS SNP data, and it relies on a training set of HLA and SNP genotypes. HIBAG can be used by researchers with published parameter estimates instead of requiring access to large training sample datasets. It combines the concepts of attribute bagging, an ensemble classifier method, with haplotype inference for SNPs and HLA types. Attribute bagging is a technique which improves the accuracy and stability of classifier ensembles using bootstrap aggregating and random variable selection.

This package provides a client for the Bioconductor ExperimentHub web resource. ExperimentHub provides a central location where curated data from experiments, publications or training courses can be accessed. Each resource has associated metadata, tags and date of modification. The client creates and manages a local cache of files retrieved enabling quick and reproducible access.

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)

This package contains utility functions used throughout the gDR platform to fit data, manipulate data, and convert and validate data structures. This package also has the necessary default constants for gDR platform. Many of the functions are utilized by the gDRcore package.

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)

Open-source PyMOL plugin for membrane-aware review of predicted, designed and experimental protein structures. Membrane Visual QC provides planar membrane-relative geometry, residue core/interface classification, hydropathy and ligand-context review, solvent-accessibility context, PDBTM/OPM orientation-source checks, and reproducible batch reporting. It is designed as a review assistant rather than a biological structure validator.

chimeraviz manages data from fusion gene finders and provides useful visualization tools.

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)