Our collaboration with Anthropic brings Claude’s powerful AI capabilities directly to complex life sciences data and tools, helping scientists move faster and unlock new discoveries. Together, we’re uniting Anthropic’s Claude for Life Sciences initiative with Manifold’s AI Data Platform to bring secure and governed access to scientific data, right where research happens.
Bridging the Semantic–Technical Divide
Life sciences professionals think and work in the semantic language of science, asking questions, forming hypotheses, interpreting signals. But their data lives in the technical space of data and tools where analysis and validation happen.
Moving between these two spaces is difficult and error-prone. That gap has constrained the pace of progress for decades.
Together, Manifold and Anthropic are closing that gap.
Our shared vision is to let people focus on the science, while AI agents handle the complexity of the data and tools behind it. Claude provides the bridge across that gap, and Manifold is the platform that makes it possible.
“Building with Claude has enabled us to develop AI agents that translate questions in the semantic space of scientists to execution in the technical space of specialized datasets and tools. Together, we’re transforming how life sciences R&D will happen in the years ahead.”
— Sourav Dey, Co-Founder and Chief AI Officer, Manifold
Bringing Agents to Your Data
Today, many AI tools require exporting sensitive data into external systems, a nonstarter for life sciences organizations managing proprietary or regulated datasets. Researchers shouldn’t have to move their data to use AI. With Manifold, they don’t.
Our AI Data Platform brings Claude’s capabilities to the data. Life sciences organizations can securely deploy AI agents inside their own environment—close to their governed, proprietary datasets while maintaining full control and compliance.
At the core is context engineering: transforming complex biomedical data into AI-ready assets that Claude and other agents can understand and query across modalities.
Within the Manifold AI Data Platform, teams can:
- Engineer their data with rich metadata that encodes biological relationships and schemas.
- Encode the joinability of data across omics, spatial, and clinical modalities.
- Enable AI agents like Claude to reason over data safely and effectively.
- Maintain governance while unlocking AI capabilities on sensitive datasets.
An Expanding Ecosystem of AI-Ready Tools & Skills
The partnership extends beyond data. Manifold is cultivating an open ecosystem of AI-ready scientific tools so AI agents can work across life sciences workflows.
Through our collaborations with the Broad Institute, Anthropic, and the broader life sciences community, we’re enabling AI-powered access to tools such as:
- Data Science Analysis tools (Python, R, SAS)
- Bioinformatics Workflows in both WDL and Nextflow
- Advanced Spatial Analysis capabilities using CellDega and more
In addition, Manifold’s extensible, open ecosystem of tools enable users to bring their own tools and make they AI-ready through wrapping as MCP servers or Skills. Each tool becomes part of an expanding foundation that helps life sciences move faster.
Proven in Partnership with the Broad Institute
The impact of this approach is already visible through our work with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
“Broad Institute scientists pursue the most ambitious questions in biology and medicine, and we create and share tools to help empower scientists everywhere. We've been working closely with Manifold on the next generation of the Terra.bio platform—Terra Powered by Manifold. Among the most exciting of these upgrades are AI agents built on Claude that enable scientists to carry out tasks at an entirely new scale and efficiency and explore scientific domains in previously impossible ways.”
— Heather Jankins, Head of Data Science Platform, Broad Institute
The Path Forward: Powering the AI Revolution in Life Sciences
AI is reshaping every field, but nowhere is the potential greater—or the data more complex—than in life sciences. By bringing Claude’s reasoning to Manifold’s AI Data Platform for Life Sciences, we’re accelerating the path to a faster, leaner life sciences industry and to impacting lives.
The next era of life sciences will be powered by AI-ready data and trusted agentic systems. We’re excited to build toward that future with Anthropic.
Learn more about how Manifold is partnering with Anthropic to accelerate life sciences at manifold.ai