Science & research
For researchers who need structure more than they need shapes.
Scientific research saw two ruptures since 2024: AlphaFold, which made protein-structure prediction trivial, and Co-Scientist-style agents, which automate hypothesis formulation. The job stays manual — but the perimeter of "manual" has changed.
The standard for predicting the 3D structure of proteins, DNA, RNA and ligands. The 2024 chemistry Nobel went to the team behind it.
Predicts structure and binding affinity jointly, 1,000× faster than classical physical methods. Open source.
Multi-agent system built on Gemini 2.0 that generates hypotheses, designs experiments and drafts papers. Confirmed in 48 hours a gene-transfer mechanism that took Imperial College researchers ten years to validate.
Synthesises hundreds of scientific papers into a cited report in under an hour.
For a research lab, the winning combo remains AlphaFold 3 (free via the DeepMind site) plus Claude for the paper write-up plus Deep Research for the bibliography. Boltz-2 if you are in biotech.