Anthropic Pushes Claude Into Labs
With improved benchmark scores and a growing set of integrations, Anthropic positions Claude to handle more of the research pipeline, from hypotheses to analysis to documentation, and to support the path from discovery toward patient care.
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Anthropic this week launched Claude for Life Sciences, a toolkit built on its existing models to help scientists streamline lab and clinical research.
It bundles tools to support everything from literature review and hypothesis drafting to protocol design and analysis, with a longer-term aim of supporting more of the path from research to patient care.
Until now, most scientists used Claude for discrete jobs such as writing code for statistical analysis or summarizing papers, while pharma companies leaned on it for commercial tasks such as sales to free up time and budgets for R&D.
“Our goal is to make Claude capable of supporting the entire process, from early discovery through to translation and commercialization,” the company wrote.
Anthropic says its latest model, Claude Sonnet 4.5, posts stronger scientific results, scoring 0.83 on the Protocol QA benchmark versus 0.74 for Sonnet 4 and a 0.79 human baseline, with gains on the bioinformatics-focused BixBench.
New pieces include connectors, Agent Skills, and life-sciences resources such as a prompt library and dedicated support. “Connectors allow Claude to access other platforms and tools directly,” the blog noted, listing Benchling, BioRender, PubMed, Wiley’s Scholar Gateway, Synapse.org, and 10x Genomics among the additions.
Claude’s use cases span literature reviews and hypothesis generation, protocol drafting, bioinformatics and data analysis, and clinical and regulatory work.
Anthropic is also partnering with services firms to help regulated organizations adopt AI, including Caylent, Deloitte, Accenture, KPMG, PwC, Quantium, Slalom, Tribe AI, and Turing, alongside cloud partners AWS and Google Cloud.
