AI Research Assistant

AI tools that work as a research assistant – searching literature, summarising papers and running analysis on request.

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OpenScience vs Claude Science

OpenScience vs. Claude Science: Two Takes on the AI Science Workbench

Two “AI workbenches for scientists” launched within a week of each other: Claude Science (Anthropic) is a proprietary app built around Claude models, whereas OpenScience...

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LifeSciBench: OpenAI’s Hard New Life-Science Benchmark — and How GPT-Rosalind Stacks Up

OpenAI just released LifeSciBench, a 750-task, expert-written, expert-reviewed benchmark that tries to measure whether AI can actually do real life-science research work — not just...

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Biomni Lab Adds GeneCards Data to Power Grounded Biomedical AI Queries

Phylo’s is strengthening its flagship product, Biomni Lab, by integrating GeneCards data, the widely used human gene knowledge base, directly into its agentic research environment....

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Drug Discovery Automation

Medra.ai Gets a Boots to Forsee the Future of AI Drug Discovery

The race to reinvent drug discovery is accelerating—and Medra.ai is quickly emerging as a key player. Following a $52 million funding round, the company is...

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Quick NMR

Automated NMR Gets its High-Throughput Moment with Sub $25 Analysis

A new pipeline marries de novo protein design with robotic sample prep and NMR spectroscopy — producing atomic-resolution data at a pace that was unthinkable...

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Prism LaTeX alternative editor

OpenAI Launches Cloud-LaTeX Editor to Train its Own AI Research Assistants

OpenAI has launched its AI-native workspace called Prism, a free, cloud-LaTeX designed to help scientists and researchers write and collaborate on scientific papers and projects....

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Litefold Protein Folding

LiteFold: Democratizing AI-Driven Protein Research

LiteFold is a unique AI-native research platform built not by traditional academic researchers, but by curious developers who personally encountered the operational friction of existing...

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