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 ### High-Performance Document Processing
 - [MinerU (2024/2025)](https://github.com/opendatalab/MinerU) - SOTA multimodal document parsing with 1.2B parameters outperforming GPT-4o, converts PDFs to LLM-ready Markdown/JSON
 - [MinerU-Diffusion (OpenDataLab, ECCV 2026)](https://github.com/opendatalab/MinerU-Diffusion) - Diffusion-based document OCR framework replacing autoregressive decoding with block-level parallel diffusion decoding, enabling high-accuracy text recognition in scientific PDFs (613+ stars, MIT License)
+- [OpenDataLoader PDF (OpenDataLoader, 2025)](https://github.com/opendataloader-project/opendataloader-pdf) - Open-source PDF parser for AI-ready data, converting PDFs into Markdown/JSON/HTML/Tagged PDF with layout analysis and reading-order detection; ranks #1 overall on extraction benchmarks with deterministic bounding boxes and hybrid AI mode (26K+ stars, Apache 2.0)
 - [PDF-Extract-Kit (2024)](https://github.com/opendatalab/PDF-Extract-Kit) - Comprehensive toolkit for high-quality PDF content extraction with layout detection, formula recognition, and OCR
 - [Docling (IBM, AAAI 2025)](https://research.ibm.com/publications/docling-an-efficient-open-source-toolkit-for-ai-driven-document-conversion) - Multi-format (PDF/DOCX/PPTX/HTML/Images) → structured data (Markdown/JSON) with layout reconstruction, table/formula recovery
 - [Nougat (Meta AI)](https://github.com/facebookresearch/nougat) - Neural optical understanding for academic documents, transforms scientific PDFs to Markdown with mathematical formula support
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 - [ScholarAIO](https://github.com/ZimoLiao/scholaraio) - Agent-agnostic research infrastructure providing AI agents with a structured scientific workspace for deep PDF parsing, hybrid semantic/keyword literature search, citation-graph analysis, topic discovery, and academic writing workflows; natively integrates with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline, and AgentSkills.io (530+ stars, MIT License, 2026)
 - [BioMCP](https://github.com/genomoncology/biomcp) - Biomedical Model Context Protocol (MCP) server unifying literature search across PubMed/Europe PMC, entity pivoting across genes/variants/drugs/diseases/pathways/proteins, local study analytics, and Claude Code/Codex integration for agentic biomedical research (531+ stars, MIT License, 2025-2026)
 - [MATLAB Agentic Toolkit](https://github.com/matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit) - Official MathWorks toolkit connecting AI agents to MATLAB via the MATLAB MCP Server and curated skills, enabling trusted engineering and scientific computing workflows with idiomatic code generation, testing, and error diagnosis in Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, and Gemini CLI (686+ stars, BSD-3-Clause, 2026)
+- [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)
 
 ### 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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 ### Autonomous Research Systems (2023-2025 Breakthroughs)
 - [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)
 - [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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 - [Arbor](https://github.com/RUC-NLPIR/Arbor) - Generalist autonomous research agent that grows a hypothesis tree to optimize any measurable task, beating Claude Code and Codex by 2.5× on the same compute budget across BrowseComp, Terminal-Bench 2.0, math reasoning, and MLE-Bench Lite; supports native CLI, keyless Claude Code/Codex integration, and an MCP tool server (RUC-NLPIR, 866+ stars, Apache 2.0, 2026)
 - [NanoResearch](https://github.com/OpenRaiser/NanoResearch) - End-to-end autonomous AI research engine that turns an idea into a complete LaTeX paper by dispatching real computational experiments to local GPUs or SLURM clusters, collecting actual results, generating figures/tables, and writing a data-grounded manuscript rather than LLM hallucinations (OpenRaiser, 1.5K+ stars, MIT License, 2026)
 - [ScienceClaw](https://github.com/beita6969/ScienceClaw) - Self-evolving AI research colleague built on OpenClaw with 285+ runtime-adaptive skills across 28+ disciplines, persistent cross-session research memory, and zero-hallucination citation protocols; agent autonomously writes new SKILL.md files based on research patterns without redeployment (828+ stars, MIT License, 2026)
+- [ai4s-skills](https://github.com/ai4s-research/ai4s-skills) - Agent skills (SKILL.md + deterministic tools) for the AI4S workflow — topic exploration, literature survey, runnable experiments, publication-grade papers, and integrity audit, with every citation and number traceable to its source (by ai4s-research, maintainers of this list; MIT, 2026)
 - [Denario (AstroPilot-AI, Agents4Science 2025)](https://github.com/AstroPilot-AI/Denario) - Modular multi-agent scientific research assistant that automates idea generation, literature review, methodology design, code execution in Docker, visualization, LaTeX paper writing, and peer-review simulation across 10+ disciplines; winner of the NeurIPS 2025 Fair Universe Competition (573+ stars, GPL-3.0, 2025-2026)
 - [AI-Researcher](https://github.com/HKUDS/AI-Researcher) - Autonomous pipeline from literature review→hypothesis→algorithm implementation→publication-level writing with Scientist-Bench evaluation
 - [Agent Laboratory](https://agentlaboratory.github.io/) - Multi-agent workflows for complete research cycles with AgentRxiv for cumulative discovery
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 - [CORAL (arXiv 2026)](https://github.com/Human-Agent-Society/CORAL) - Robust, lightweight infrastructure for multi-agent autonomous self-evolution, built for autoresearch; agents run in isolated git worktrees, share knowledge through a common state directory, and are scored by a grader daemon; natively integrated with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor Agent, OpenCode, and Kiro (672+ stars, Apache 2.0)
 - [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)
 
 ### 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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 - [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)
 - [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)
 - [ColabFold (2025 Updates)](https://github.com/sokrypton/ColabFold) - AlphaFold/ESMFold accessible implementation with AF3 JSON export, database updates
 - [OpenFold](https://github.com/aqlaboratory/openfold) - Trainable, memory-efficient PyTorch reproduction and retraining of AlphaFold2 providing new insights into its learning dynamics and out-of-distribution generalization; widely used as the open-source AlphaFold2 backbone underpinning many downstream protein structure prediction and design pipelines (Columbia AlQuraishi Lab & OpenFold Consortium, Nature Methods 2024)
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 - [AlphaMissense](https://github.com/google-deepmind/alphamissense) - Google DeepMind's AlphaFold-derived classifier for proteome-wide missense variant effect prediction, providing pathogenicity scores for all ~71M possible human missense variants and classifying 89% with 90% precision; pre-computed predictions are integrated into Ensembl VEP and UCSC Genome Browser to support clinical variant interpretation (Science 2023)
 - [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)
 - [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)
 
 #### 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)
 - [SLEAP](https://github.com/talmolab/sleap) - Deep learning-based multi-animal pose tracking and behavior classification, enabling automated quantification of social interactions and collective behavior across species (Nature Methods 2022, 2.2K+ stars)
+- [NeuroAI (Meta FAIR)](https://github.com/facebookresearch/neuroai) - Modular Python suite for Neuro-AI research across all modalities, providing efficient data loaders (NeuralSet), curated datasets (NeuralFetch), scalable training (NeuralTrain), and unified benchmarking (NeuralBench) for building and evaluating neuroscience foundation models (Meta FAIR, 270+ stars, MIT License, 2026)
 - [CEBRA (Nature 2023)](https://github.com/AdaptiveMotorControlLab/CEBRA) - Learnable latent embeddings for joint behavioral and neural analysis, enabling consistent and interpretable mapping of neural activity to behavior across modalities, species, and experiments (EPFL & Harvard, 1K+ stars)
 - [Kilosort (Nature Methods 2024)](https://github.com/MouseLand/Kilosort) - Fast spike sorting with drift correction for extracellular electrophysiology, enabling universal neural spike sorting via deep learning on high-density neural probe recordings (MouseLand, 609+ stars)
 - [SpikeInterface](https://github.com/SpikeInterface/spikeinterface) - Unified Python framework for extracellular electrophysiology, standardizing interfaces to 10+ ML-based spike sorting algorithms including Kilosort for reproducible neural spike sorting workflows (792+ stars, actively maintained)
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 - [PLIP (Nature Medicine 2023)](https://github.com/PathologyFoundation/plip) - First vision-and-language foundation model for pathology AI, fine-tuned from CLIP on 249K image-caption pairs, enabling open-ended visual-semantic search and zero-shot diagnosis across histopathology (Pathology Foundation, 376+ stars)
 - [TITAN (Nature Medicine 2024)](https://github.com/mahmoodlab/TITAN) - Multimodal whole-slide pathology foundation model jointly pretrained on H&E histology and diagnostic text reports, enabling zero-shot cancer subtyping, biomarker prediction, and multimodal reasoning across diverse cancer types (Mahmood Lab, 341+ stars)
 - [Virchow (Nature Medicine 2024)](https://huggingface.co/paige-ai/Virchow) - Self-supervised pathology foundation model (ViT-Huge, 632M parameters) pretrained via DINOv2 on 1.5M whole-slide images from Memorial Sloan Kettering across 17 cancer types, with Virchow2 follow-up scaling to 3.1M slides and mixed magnifications, achieving SOTA on biomarker prediction, mutation classification, and rare cancer detection (Paige AI & MSK)
+- [H-Optimus (Bioptimus, Nature Medicine 2025)](https://huggingface.co/bioptimus/H-optimus-0) - Open-weights pathology foundation model family (H-Optimus-0: 1.1B-parameter ViT pretrained via DINOv2 on 500M+ diagnostic image tiles; H-Optimus-1 follow-up) for whole-slide image analysis, achieving strong zero-shot and fine-tuned transfer across biomarker prediction, cancer subtyping, and mutation classification (Bioptimus, Apache 2.0)
 - [TRIDENT (2025)](https://github.com/mahmoodlab/TRIDENT) - Toolkit for large-scale whole-slide image processing supporting 22+ patch encoders (UNI, CONCH, Virchow, H-Optimus-0, etc.), slide encoders (TITAN, GigaPath, PRISM, CHIEF, Madeleine, Feather), tissue segmentation, and multi-GPU inference with end-to-end pipeline and smart resume for standardized deployment of computational pathology foundation models (Mahmood Lab, Harvard Medical School, 553+ stars)
+- [Feather (Mahmood Lab, ICML 2025 Spotlight)](https://github.com/mahmoodlab/MIL-Lab) - Lightweight supervised slide foundation model with 0.9M parameters pretrained on 24K whole-slide images for pan-cancer morphological classification, achieving competitive performance with much larger self-supervised models (TITAN, GigaPath) while enabling finetuning on consumer-grade GPUs; includes standardized MIL implementations and benchmarking across 15+ classification tasks (Mahmood Lab, Harvard Medical School, 153+ stars)
 - [PathChat (Nature Medicine 2024)](https://github.com/MahmoodLab/PathChat) - Multimodal generative AI assistant for computational pathology enabling interactive visual-language conversations over histopathology images for diagnostic reasoning, case discussion, and education, built on a Mistral-7B backbone with domain-specific fine-tuning (Mahmood Lab, Harvard Medical School, 1.2K+ stars)
+- [SlideChat (CVPR 2025)](https://github.com/uni-medical/SlideChat) - First large vision-language assistant for gigapixel whole-slide pathology image understanding, released with the SlideInstruction dataset and SlideBench benchmark (uni-medical, Apache 2.0, 2025)
 - [HEST (NeurIPS 2024)](https://github.com/mahmoodlab/HEST) - Dataset and benchmarking framework integrating histology and spatial transcriptomics, enabling multimodal analysis of whole-slide images with matched spatial gene expression for advancing computational pathology and tissue microenvironment research (Mahmood Lab, Harvard Medical School, 411+ stars)
 
 #### Medical AI & Clinical Applications