Getting Started with Claude for Life Sciences

What is Claude for Life Sciences

Claude for Life Sciences enhances Claude with specialized capabilities for life sciences researchers and organizations. It connects Claude to the data sources, tools, and systems that teams use daily across R&D, clinical operations, and regulatory affairs — eliminating the need to toggle between platforms and enabling insights that span your entire product lifecycle. The result: accelerated timelines from discovery through approval, with the rigor and traceability these workflows demand.

How do I access life sciences tools and features?

Individuals can access Claude for Life Sciences features and tools from a Claude Pro or Claude Max account, and teams can access through Claude for Work. For questions about Claude for Life Sciences for enterprise contact our Sales team.

Connectors for the life sciences development cycle

Through Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors and desktop extensions, Claude connects directly to leading platforms and databases, enabling you to query data using natural language and receive responses with source citations.

Scientific research & discovery

• Benchling connects Claude to Benchling R&D platform data, enabling scientists to ask questions and receive clear summaries with links back to source experiments, notebooks, and structured records—all while maintaining existing access permissions.
• 10x Genomics* transforms single cell and spatial analysis into a simple, conversational workflow. Biologists can easily analyze their own sequencing data, while core labs can quickly perform batch processing.
• PubMed provides access to millions of biomedical research articles and clinical studies, allowing Claude to access abstracts and full papers to clarify experimental approaches, identify key findings, determine novelty and applicability, and surface specific papers for deeper exploration
• Synapse.org allows researchers to discover biomedical data across all of Synapse, see the structure of projects, and retrieve information on their data assets for authorized users.
• BioRender searches BioRender's extensive scientific figure template and icon collection for relevant content to create figures faster.
• Scholar Gateway by Wiley provides authenticated access to the most relevant snippets of scientific research papers to utilize within Claude.
• bioRxiv / medRxiv gives Claude access to bioRxiv and medRxiv preprint servers, enabling researchers to search, retrieve, and analyze non-peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts in biological and health sciences before formal journal publication.
• ChEMBL gives Claude access to a manually curated repository of bioactive molecules with drug-like properties, their biological targets, and quantitative activity measurements.
• ToolUniverse* gives Claude access to a library of 600+ vetted scientific tools to explore large hypothesis spaces, compare competing hypotheses, and iterate through fast-to-slow cycles of analysis.
• Owkin powers Pathology Explorer, an Owkin AI agent that transforms H&E pathology slides into queryable insights for drug discovery and development and clinical research.
• Open Targets gives Claude access to the Open Targets Platform for identifying and prioritizing therapeutic drug targets based on disease associations.

Clinical operations & regulatory

• Medidata, a leader in clinical trial solutions, provides the ability to connect Claude to their Medidata platform data
• ClinicalTrials.gov gives Claude access to the NIH/NLM registry of 500,000+ clinical studies to search trials, analyze endpoints, and support research operations.

*Available as Desktop Extensions for access on Claude Desktop App (download here).

Claude also includes Connectors to other workplace and productivity platforms like Microsoft 365, Gmail & Google Drive, Box, Databricks, Slack, and many more. Explore all available Claude Connectors here.

You can also add custom connectors to connect Claude directly to the tools and data sources that matter most to your workflows. Learn more about setting up custom connectors here.

Common research & discovery use cases

• Advanced data analysis and hypothesis generation: Synthesize multi-source data to accelerate discovery cycles from weeks to hours.
• Literature synthesis with citations: Access abstracts and full papers to clarify experimental approaches, identify key findings, determine novelty and applicability, and surface specific papers for deeper exploration.
• Protocol optimization: Generate optimized protocols by synthesizing literature, successful existing protocols, and experimental best practices.
• Single-cell data processing: Synthesize days of bioinformatics and computational analysis in minutes with automated cell population identification. Check out the single-cell-rna-qc skill which gives Claude the ability to perform quality control on single-cell RNA-seq data using scverse best practices.
• Experimental design automation: Generate literature-informed experimental designs automatically.
• Figure interpretation and analysis: Accelerate figure creation and analysis with automated visualization.