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 - [open-science](https://github.com/ai4s-research/open-science) - Local-first, open-source AI workbench for scientists — an open alternative to Claude Science (by ai4s-research, maintainers of this list; TypeScript, MIT, 2026)
 - [OpenScience (Synthetic Sciences)](https://github.com/synthetic-sciences/openscience) - Open-source AI workbench for scientific research that automates the full research loop — literature review, hypothesis generation, code writing, experiment execution, database querying, and report writing — with 290+ skills, specialized research agents, and a browser-based workspace (1453+ stars, Apache 2.0, 2026)
 - [Claude Scholar](https://github.com/Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar) - Semi-automated research assistant for academic research and software development, supporting Claude Code, Codex CLI, Kimi Code CLI, and OpenCode across ideation, coding, experiments, writing, and publication (Galaxy-Dawn, 4.5K+ stars, MIT License, 2026)
+- [K-Dense BYOK](https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/k-dense-byok) - Free, open-source desktop AI research assistant that runs locally and turns natural-language requests into real data analysis, literature search, figure generation, and manuscript review; ships with 149 scientific skills, 326 workflow templates, and 229 databases across genomics, proteomics, drug discovery, and materials science, plus a living lab notebook, 60+ scientific file previews, and LaTeX editing (K-Dense-AI, 908+ stars, MIT License, 2026)
 
 ### Literature Management Plugins
 - [llm-for-zotero](https://github.com/yilewang/llm-for-zotero) - Research agent system deeply integrated with Zotero supporting Agent Mode, skills, multi-model backends (OpenAI-compatible, Claude Code, WebChat, Codex), and MinerU PDF parsing for literature Q&A, summarization, figure inspection, and source comparison (1.3K+ stars, 2026)
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 - [FunSearch (DeepMind, Nature 2023)](https://github.com/google-deepmind/funsearch) - First system to make novel, verifiable scientific discoveries by pairing LLMs with evolutionary search, solving open problems in combinatorics (cap set problem) and discovering faster matrix multiplication algorithms
 - [OpenEvolve](https://github.com/algorithmicsuperintelligence/openevolve) - Open-source implementation of AlphaEvolve's evolutionary coding agent paradigm, enabling LLMs to autonomously discover and optimize algorithms through iterative evolution, matching the approach behind DeepMind's breakthrough matrix multiplication discovery (6.2K+ stars, 2025)
 - [SkyDiscover](https://github.com/skydiscover-ai/skydiscover) - Modular framework for AI-driven scientific and algorithmic discovery, providing a unified interface for implementing, running, and fairly comparing discovery algorithms across 200+ optimization tasks; introduces AdaEvolve and EvoX adaptive/evolutionary algorithms and natively supports OpenEvolve, GEPA, and Harbor-format benchmarks (skydiscover-ai, 568+ stars, Apache 2.0, 2026)
+- [EvoMaster (SJTU SAI, arXiv 2026)](https://github.com/sjtu-sai-agents/EvoMaster) - Foundational auto-research agent framework for agentic science at scale, providing modular agent construction, run-level self-evolution, and multiple SciMaster domain agents (ML-Master, X-Master, Browse-Master); outperforms general-purpose agents across authoritative benchmarks including the OpenAI Frontier Science Benchmark (206+ stars, Apache 2.0, 2026)
 - [Virtual Lab (Stanford Zou Group, Nature 2025)](https://github.com/zou-group/virtual-lab) - AI-human collaborative research platform where a human researcher works with a team of LLM agents via team and individual meetings to perform scientific research; demonstrated by designing new SARS-CoV-2 nanobodies with wet-lab validation
 - [The AI Scientist (SakanaAI)](https://github.com/SakanaAI/AI-Scientist) - First fully autonomous open-ended scientific discovery system with official implementation: hypothesis→experiment→writing→review simulation (13.8K+ stars, 2024)
 - [The AI Scientist v2 (SakanaAI)](https://github.com/SakanaAI/AI-Scientist-v2) - Official implementation of the second-generation fully autonomous scientific discovery system, extending the original with agentic tree search and reduced template dependency to achieve workshop-level accepted papers (6.7K+ stars, 2025)
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 - [Science-Star (USTC AI4Science, 2025)](https://github.com/ustc-ai4science/Science-Star) - Open-source platform for building, extending, and experimenting with scientific agents, providing modular agent construction tools and standardized evaluation pipelines for accelerating autonomous scientific discovery research (748+ stars, MIT License)
 - [SR-Scientist (ICLR 2026)](https://github.com/GAIR-NLP/SR-Scientist) - Scientific equation discovery with agentic AI, elevating LLMs from equation proposers to autonomous scientists that write code, analyze data, implement equations, and optimize based on experimental feedback; outperforms baselines by 6-35% across four science disciplines with robustness to noise and out-of-domain generalization (GAIR-NLP / SJTU, 49+ stars, Apache 2.0)
 - [ARA (Agent-Native Research Artifact)](https://github.com/ARA-Labs/Agent-Native-Research-Artifact) - Research ecosystem for rigorous and trustworthy AI scientists — a protocol and skill bundle that makes autonomous research verifiable, crystallized, and observable through structured, machine-executable research artifacts and five agent skills for research management, compilation, verification, visualization, and publication (ARA-Labs, 447+ stars, MIT License, 2026)
+- [Scholar Loop](https://github.com/renee-jia/scholar-loop) - Autonomous multi-agent AI scientist that mirrors a PhD workflow: literature review → grounded hypothesis → real ML experiments → self-critique → write-up; features a deterministic harness with frozen-metric scoring, edit allowlists, and a verified registry to make reward-hacking and hallucination impossible, plus 108 unit tests runnable without API keys or GPUs (461+ stars, MIT License, 2026)
 
 ### Evaluation & Benchmarking
 - [ScienceAgentBench (ICLR 2025)](https://github.com/OSU-NLP-Group/ScienceAgentBench) - 102 executable tasks from 44 peer-reviewed papers across 4 disciplines with containerized evaluation
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 - [ModelAngelo](https://github.com/3dem/model-angelo) - Automatic atomic model building program for cryo-EM maps using deep learning, enabling rapid de novo protein structure determination from electron density with high accuracy (3DEM/EMBL, 169+ stars)
 - [AlphaFold](https://github.com/google-deepmind/alphafold) - Protein structure prediction
 - [AlphaFold3](https://github.com/google-deepmind/alphafold3) - AlphaFold 3 inference pipeline for unified biomolecular structure prediction of proteins, nucleic acids, small molecules, ions, and post-translational modifications (Google DeepMind, Nature 2024)
+- [AlphaFold Server](https://alphafoldserver.com/) - Free, easy-to-use web platform by Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs for running AlphaFold 3 predictions of biomolecular structures and interactions, enabling researchers without local infrastructure to model proteins, nucleic acids, small molecules, ions, and post-translational modifications through a searchable proteome interface (2024)
 - [AlphaProteo](https://github.com/google-deepmind/alphaproteo) - Deep learning system for de novo design of high-affinity protein binders, achieving strong binding across diverse target classes including challenging intracellular proteins with significantly higher success rates than traditional wet-lab screening methods (Google DeepMind, Nature 2024)
 - [AlphaPulldown](https://github.com/KosinskiLab/AlphaPulldown) - Automated pipeline for proteome-scale protein-protein interaction screening with AlphaFold-Multimer and AlphaFold 3, supporting flexible inputs (UniProt IDs, FASTA, residue regions, multimers, AF3 JSON features) and integrated downstream analysis for hit prioritization (Kosinski Lab, EMBL, Nature Protocols 2024, 317+ stars, GPL-3.0)
 - [RareFold](https://github.com/PatrickBryant1/RareFold) - Structure prediction and design of proteins with noncanonical amino acids, enabling AI-powered modeling of synthetic biology constructs and expanded genetic code systems (133+ stars, 2025)
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 - [AlphaGenome](https://github.com/google-deepmind/alphagenome) - Google DeepMind's unified DNA sequence foundation model predicting molecular consequences of genetic variants from single-base resolution up to 1 megabase context, jointly outputting thousands of regulatory tracks (RNA expression, splicing, chromatin accessibility, TF binding, contact maps) for human and mouse genomes via a Python client and non-commercial API (2025)
 - [GPN-Star (Song Lab, UC Berkeley, bioRxiv 2025)](https://github.com/songlab-cal/gpn) - Phylogeny-aware genomic language model trained on whole-genome alignments across multiple evolutionary timescales, predicting functional constraints and variant effects for human, mouse, chicken, fly, worm, and Arabidopsis genomes (344+ stars, MIT License)
 - [GENERanno (bioRxiv 2025)](https://github.com/GenerTeam/GENERanno) - Genomic foundation model for metagenomic and genome annotation, featuring an 8k base-pair context and 500M parameters trained on 386B base pairs of eukaryotic DNA; provides expert models and a unified CLI for prokaryotic/eukaryotic coding-sequence annotation with strong performance on Genomic Benchmarks, Nucleotide Transformer tasks, and custom Gener tasks (GenerTeam, 314+ stars, MIT License)
+- [GENERator (bioRxiv 2026)](https://github.com/GenerTeam/GENERator) - Long-context generative genomic foundation model using 6-mer tokenization for DNA sequence modeling and generation, with v2 model families for prokaryote and eukaryote genomes and pretrained weights available on HuggingFace (GenerTeam, 460+ stars, MIT License, 2025-2026)
 - [DeepVariant](https://github.com/google/deepvariant) - Google DeepMind's deep learning analysis pipeline for calling genetic variants (SNPs and indels) from next-generation DNA sequencing data, achieving human expert-level accuracy and widely adopted in clinical genomics, population genetics, and precision medicine; pre-trained models available for multiple sequencing platforms and organismal genomes (Nature Biotechnology 2018, 3.7K+ stars)
 - [Casanovo](https://github.com/Noble-Lab/casanovo) - Transformer encoder-decoder for de novo peptide sequencing from tandem mass spectrometry, translating MS/MS spectra directly to peptide sequences without reference databases, enabling identification of novel peptides for immunopeptidomics, antibody repertoires, and metaproteomes (Noble Lab UW, Nature Communications 2024)
+- [Dorado](https://github.com/nanoporetech/dorado) - Oxford Nanopore's official deep-learning basecaller for nanopore sequencing, converting raw electrical signals into DNA/RNA sequences with integrated modified-base (methylation) detection and efficient CPU/GPU inference; foundational tool for long-read genomics, epigenetics, and real-time sequencing analysis (nanoporetech, 846+ stars, actively maintained)
 
 #### Neuroscience & Behavioral Analysis
 - [DeepLabCut](https://github.com/DeepLabCut/DeepLabCut) - Markerless pose estimation of user-defined features with deep learning for all animals including humans, enabling quantitative behavioral analysis in neuroscience and ethology (Nature Neuroscience 2018, 5.6K+ stars)
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 - [UniBiomed (Nature Communications 2026)](https://github.com/Luffy03/UniBiomed) - Universal foundation model for grounded biomedical image interpretation, enabling comprehensive visual understanding, reasoning, and grounding across diverse biomedical imaging modalities with strong zero-shot generalization (55+ stars, Apache 2.0, 2025-2026)
 - [MIRA (NeurIPS 2025)](https://github.com/microsoft/MIRA) - Medical time series foundation model pretrained on 454B time points from heterogeneous clinical corpora spanning ICU physiological signals and hospital EHR, with continuous-time rotary positional encoding, frequency-specialized Mixture-of-Experts, and neural ODE extrapolation for zero-shot forecasting across irregular and multimodal temporal health data (Microsoft, 399+ stars, MIT License)
 - [HealthGPT (ICML 2025 Spotlight)](https://github.com/ZJU4HealthCare/HealthGPT) - Medical large vision-language model unifying comprehension and generation via heterogeneous knowledge adaptation, enabling holistic medical image understanding, visual question answering, and clinical report generation across diverse modalities (ZJU4HealthCare, 1.6K+ stars)
+- [Merlin (Stanford MIMI, Nature 2026)](https://github.com/StanfordMIMI/Merlin) - 3D vision-language model for computed tomography that leverages both structured electronic health records (EHR) and unstructured radiology reports for pretraining, enabling multimodal medical understanding and radiology report generation (447+ stars, MIT License, 2026)
 - [MedAgents](https://github.com/gersteinlab/MedAgents) - Multi-disciplinary collaboration framework for zero-shot medical reasoning using role-playing LLM agents (ACL 2024)
 - [MedAgentGym](https://github.com/wshi83/MedAgentGym) - Scalable agentic training environment for code-centric reasoning in biomedical data science
 - [MedRAX (ICML 2025)](https://github.com/bowang-lab/MedRAX) - First versatile medical reasoning agent for chest X-ray interpretation, dynamically integrating state-of-the-art CXR analysis tools and multimodal LLMs into a unified framework; introduces ChestAgentBench with 2,500 complex medical queries across 7 categories (bowang-lab, 1.1K+ stars)