🚨 Someone just turned Claude into a full AI research scientist.
This GitHub repo called claude-scientific-skills just quietly changed what's possible with AI in science.
Most people are using Claude to write emails and summarize docs.
These researchers are using it to run actual drug discovery pipelines, analyze single-cell RNA sequencing data, interpret clinical variants, and generate publication-ready reports all from a single prompt.
Here's how it works:
You install one plugin in Claude Code. Claude automatically discovers and uses 140 scientific skills across every major research domain bioinformatics, cheminformatics, proteomics, clinical research, medical imaging, materials science, quantum computing, laboratory automation.
The skills connect Claude directly to the databases and tools scientists actually use:
→ Query ChEMBL for bioactive compounds
→ Annotate variants with ClinVar and Ensembl
→ Dock molecules with DiffDock against AlphaFold structures
→ Analyze 10X genomics data with Scanpy
→ Search ClinicalTrials. gov and match patients to trials
→ Generate PDF clinical reports with ReportLab
One prompt. Real scientific libraries. Live database APIs. Actual results.
This is what happens when someone stops treating Claude like a chatbot and starts treating it like a research platform.
/plugin install scientific-skills@claude-scientific-skills
100% Opensource. MIT License.
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