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✨ Awesome AI for Science (AI4Science) ✨

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A curated list of awesome AI tools, libraries, papers, datasets, and frameworks that accelerate scientific discovery across all disciplines.

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AI is revolutionizing scientific research - from drug discovery and materials design to climate modeling and astrophysics. This repository collects the best resources to help researchers leverage AI in their work.

📚 Contents


🧪 AI Tools for Research

Literature & Knowledge Management

  • Semantic Scholar - AI-powered academic search (Allen AI)
  • arXiv - Open-access repository of electronic preprints and postprints
  • OpenAlex - Open catalog of scholarly papers and authors
  • CORE - Aggregator of open access research papers

Data Analysis & Visualization

  • PandasAI - Conversational data analysis using natural language
  • DeepAnalyze - First agentic LLM for autonomous data science with end-to-end pipeline from data to analyst-grade reports
  • AutoViz - Automated data visualization with minimal code
  • Chat2Plot - Secure text-to-visualization through standardized chart specifications

Data Labeling & Annotation

  • Label Studio - Multi-type data labeling and annotation tool
  • Snorkel - Programmatic data labeling and weak supervision

📄 Paper→Poster / Slides / Graphical Abstract

Poster Generation

  • Paper2Poster - Multi-agent system with Parser-Planner-Painter architecture converting paper.pdf to editable poster.pptx, outperforms GPT-4o with 87% fewer tokens
  • mPLUG-PaperOwl - Multimodal LLM for scientific charts and diagrams understanding/generation

Slides & Presentation Generation

  • Auto-Slides - Multi-agent academic paper to high-quality presentation slides with interactive refinement
  • PPTAgent - Beyond text-to-slides generation with PPTEval multi-dimensional evaluation (EMNLP 2025)
  • paper2slides - Transform arXiv papers into Beamer slides using LLMs
  • PaperToSlides - AI-powered tool that automatically converts academic papers (PDF) into presentation slides
  • pdf2slides - Convert PDF files into editable slides with three lines of code
  • SlideDeck AI - Co-create PowerPoint presentations with Generative AI from documents or topics
  • AI Multi-Agent Presentation Builder - Azure Semantic Kernel multi-agent PPT generation reference

Video & Media Generation

  • Paper2Video - First benchmark for automatic video generation from scientific papers (NeurIPS 2025)
  • paper2video - Transform arXiv research papers into engaging presentations and YouTube-ready videos

Website & Interactive Content Generation

  • Paper2All - AI-powered pipeline converting papers into interactive websites, posters, and multimedia presentations with "Let's Make Your Paper Alive!" philosophy

Chart & Visualization Generation

Note: For comprehensive chart understanding and code generation tools, see 📊 Chart Understanding & Generation section


📊 Chart Understanding & Generation

Chart-to-Code & Reproducibility

Scientific Visualization Tools

  • Chat2Plot - Secure text-to-visualization through standardized chart specifications
  • AutoViz - Automated data visualization with minimal code
  • PlotlyAI - AI-powered data visualization and dashboard creation

🔄 Paper-to-Code & Reproducibility

Automated Code Generation

  • AutoP2C - LLM agent framework generating runnable repositories from academic papers
  • ResearchCodeAgent - Multi-agent system for automated codification of research methodologies
  • ToolMaker - Convert papers with code into callable agent tools

Experiment Automation

  • BioProBench - Comprehensive benchmark for automatic evaluation of LLMs on biological protocols and procedural understanding
  • Alhazen - Extract experimental metadata and protocol information from scientific documents

📋 Scientific Documentation & Parsing

High-Performance Document Processing

  • MinerU (2024/2025) - SOTA multimodal document parsing with 1.2B parameters outperforming GPT-4o, converts PDFs to LLM-ready Markdown/JSON
  • PDF-Extract-Kit (2024) - Comprehensive toolkit for high-quality PDF content extraction with layout detection, formula recognition, and OCR
  • Docling (IBM, AAAI 2025) - Multi-format (PDF/DOCX/PPTX/HTML/Images) → structured data (Markdown/JSON) with layout reconstruction, table/formula recovery
  • Nougat (Meta AI) - Neural optical understanding for academic documents, transforms scientific PDFs to Markdown with mathematical formula support
  • PaddleOCR 3.0 (2024/2025) - Advanced OCR with PP-StructureV3 document parsing, 13% accuracy improvement, supports 80+ languages
  • Unstructured - Production-grade ETL for transforming complex documents into structured formats, with open-source API
  • Marker - High-accuracy PDF→Markdown/JSON/HTML conversion, specialized for tables/formulas/code blocks with benchmark scripts
  • S2ORC doc2json (AllenAI) - Large-scale PDF/LaTeX/JATS parsing to standardized JSON for millions of papers
  • GROBID - Machine learning software for extracting structured metadata from scholarly documents
  • Science-Parse / SPv2 (AllenAI) - Parse scientific papers to structured fields (title/author/sections/references)

Production Pipelines & Data Preparation

Figure & Table Extraction

  • PDFFigures2 - Extract figures, tables, captions, and section titles from scholarly PDFs
  • TableBank - Large-scale table detection and recognition dataset with pre-trained models

Scientific Literature RAG & Analysis

  • PaperQA2 - High-accuracy RAG for scientific PDFs with citation support, agentic RAG, and contradiction detection
  • paper-reviewer - Generate comprehensive reviews from arXiv papers and convert to blog posts

🧰 Research Workbench & Plugins

Interactive Research Environments

Literature Management Plugins

Scientific Writing & Collaboration


🕸️ Knowledge Extraction & Scholarly KGs

Knowledge Graph Construction

  • iText2KG - Incremental knowledge graph construction using LLMs with entity extraction and Neo4j visualization
  • GraphGen - Knowledge graph-guided synthetic data generation for LLM fine-tuning, achieving strong performance on scientific QA (GPQA-Diamond) and math reasoning (AIME)
  • KoPA - Structure-aware prefix adaptation for integrating LLMs with knowledge graphs (ACM MM 2024)
  • Scholarly KGQA - LLM-powered question answering over scholarly knowledge graphs (ArXiv paper)

Knowledge Graph Resources

  • Awesome-LLM-KG - Comprehensive collection of papers on unifying LLMs and knowledge graphs

🤖 Research Agents & Autonomous Workflows

Autonomous Research Systems (2024-2025 Breakthroughs)

  • The AI Scientist v1 (2024) - First fully autonomous research system: hypothesis→experiment→writing→review simulation
  • The AI Scientist v2 (2025) - Enhanced with Agentic Tree Search, reduced template dependency, first workshop-level accepted paper
  • DeepScientist - First system progressively surpassing human SOTA on frontier AI tasks (183.7%, 1.9%, 7.9% improvements), month-long autonomous discovery with 20,000+ GPU hours
  • Kosmos - Extended autonomy AI scientist with 200 parallel agent rollouts, 42K lines of code execution, 1.5K papers analyzed per run, achieving 79.4% accuracy and 7 scientific discoveries (Edison Scientific)
  • AlphaResearch - Autonomous algorithm discovery combining evolutionary search with peer-review reward models, achieving best-known performance on circle packing problems
  • AI-Researcher - Autonomous pipeline from literature review→hypothesis→algorithm implementation→publication-level writing with Scientist-Bench evaluation
  • Agent Laboratory - Multi-agent workflows for complete research cycles with AgentRxiv for cumulative discovery
  • InternAgent - Closed-loop multi-agent system from hypothesis to verification across 12 scientific tasks, #1 on MLE-Bench (36.44%)
  • freephdlabor - First fully customizable open-source multiagent framework automating complete research lifecycle from idea conception to LaTeX papers with dynamic workflows
  • ToolUniverse - Democratizing AI scientists by transforming any LLM into research systems with 600+ scientific tools (Harvard MIMS)
  • Aviary - Language agent gymnasium for challenging scientific tasks including DNA manipulation, literature search, and protein engineering
  • Curie - Automated and rigorous experiments using AI agents for scientific discovery
  • POPPER - Automated hypothesis testing with agentic sequential falsifications

Evaluation & Benchmarking

  • ScienceAgentBench (ICLR 2025) - 102 executable tasks from 44 peer-reviewed papers across 4 disciplines with containerized evaluation
  • SciTrust (2024) - Trustworthiness evaluation framework for scientific LLMs (truthfulness, hallucination, sycophancy)
  • SciBench - College-level scientific problem-solving evaluation across multiple domains

Academic Review & Evaluation

  • AgentReview - LLM agents simulating academic peer review ecosystems
  • LLM-Peer-Review - Web application for LLM-assisted manuscript review and annotation

Domain-Specific Research Agents

  • BioDiscoveryAgent - AI agent for biological discovery and research automation
  • MOOSE - Large Language Models for automated open-domain scientific hypotheses discovery (ACL 2024, ICML Best Poster)
  • ChemCrow - LLM agents for chemistry research with tool integration
  • Coscientist - Autonomous chemical experiment planning and execution

🏷️ Data Labeling & Curation

Weak Supervision & Auto-Labeling

  • Snorkel - Programmatic data labeling and weak supervision for scientific datasets
  • PandasAI - Conversational data analysis and visualization using natural language

⚗️ Scientific Machine Learning

Neural Differential Equations

Physics-Informed Neural Networks

  • DeepXDE - Deep learning library for solving PDEs
  • PINNs - Physics-informed neural networks
  • NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo - Open-source framework for building physics-ML models at scale (renamed from Modulus, 2025)
  • PINA - Physics-Informed Neural networks for Advanced modeling in PyTorch
  • SciANN - Keras-based scientific neural networks
  • NeuralPDE.jl - Physics-informed neural networks in Julia

Neural Operators & Model Discovery


📖 Papers & Reviews

Foundational Papers

📊 Comprehensive Surveys & Reviews (2024-2025)

AI for Scientific Research

Scientific Large Language Models

Scientific Machine Learning

Uncertainty Quantification

Automation & Self-Driving Laboratories

Policy & Strategic Perspectives

  • Artificial Intelligence for Science (CSIRO 2022) - Landmark report analyzing AI adoption across 98% of scientific fields over 60 years
  • AI for Science 2025 (Fudan University & Nature 2025) - Comprehensive report on AI's transformative impact across 7 scientific fields, 28 research directions, and 90+ challenges
  • AI in science evidence review (European Scientific Advice 2024) - Policy-focused evidence review on AI's impact in research

🚀 AI Scientist & Autonomous Research (2024-2025 Breakthroughs)

Recent Advances & Domain Applications

📈 Evaluation & Benchmarking


🔬 Domain-Specific Applications

🧬 Biology & Medicine

Protein & Drug Discovery

  • AlphaFold - Protein structure prediction
  • ColabFold (2025 Updates) - AlphaFold/ESMFold accessible implementation with AF3 JSON export, database updates
  • Protenix - Trainable PyTorch reproduction of AlphaFold 3
  • Boltz - First fully open-source model achieving AlphaFold3-level accuracy with 1000x faster binding affinity prediction (MIT)
  • xfold - Democratizing AlphaFold3: PyTorch reimplementation to accelerate protein structure prediction research
  • MegaFold - Cross-platform system optimizations for accelerating AlphaFold3 training with 1.73x speedup and 1.23x memory reduction
  • Graphormer - General-purpose deep learning backbone for molecular modeling
  • targetdiff - 3D Equivariant Diffusion for Target-Aware Molecule Generation (ICLR2023)
  • DrugAssist - LLM-based molecular optimization tool
  • mint - Learning the language of protein-protein interactions
  • Mol-Instructions - Large-scale biomolecular instruction dataset for chemistry/biology LLMs (ICLR2024)
  • ChemBERTa - Chemical language model
  • DeepChem - Machine learning for chemistry
  • DeepMol - Unified ML/DL framework for drug discovery workflows, integrating RDKit, DeepChem, and scikit-learn with SHAP explainability
  • RDKit - Cheminformatics toolkit
  • ESMFold - Protein structure prediction from ESM models

Genomics & Bioinformatics

  • LucaOne - Generalized biological foundation model with unified nucleic acid and protein language, integrating DNA/RNA/protein sequences (Nature Machine Intelligence 2025)
  • scGPT - Single-cell analysis with transformers
  • Cell2Sentence - Teaching Large Language Models the Language of Biology through single-cell transcriptomics (ICML 2024)
  • Enformer - Gene expression prediction
  • DNABERT - DNA sequence analysis
  • scBERT - Single-cell BERT for gene expression
  • GenePT - Generative pre-training for genomics

Medical AI & Clinical Applications

  • MedAgents - Multi-disciplinary collaboration framework for zero-shot medical reasoning using role-playing LLM agents (ACL 2024)
  • MedAgentGym - Scalable agentic training environment for code-centric reasoning in biomedical data science

⚛️ Chemistry & Materials

LLM for Chemistry

  • LLM4Chemistry - Curated paper list about LLMs for chemistry covering fine-tuning, reasoning, multi-modal models, agents, and benchmarks (COLING 2025)

Materials Discovery

  • FAIRChem (OMat24) - Meta's comprehensive ML ecosystem for materials/chemistry with 118M+ DFT calculations, EquiformerV2 models achieving top Matbench Discovery performance
  • MACE - Machine learning interatomic potentials
  • MatterSim - Deep learning atomistic model across elements, temperatures, and pressures
  • Crystal Graph CNNs - Crystal property prediction
  • MatBench - Materials informatics benchmark
  • Best of Atomistic Machine Learning - Curated list of atomistic ML projects for materials science

Chemical Synthesis

🌌 Physics & Astronomy

Machine Learning for Physics

Astronomy & Astrophysics

🌍 Earth & Climate Science

Climate Modeling

  • ClimaX - First foundation model for weather and climate by Microsoft, Vision Transformer-based architecture trained on heterogeneous datasets (ICML 2023)
  • ClimateBench - Climate data benchmark for ML models
  • WeatherBench - Weather prediction benchmark
  • WeatherGFT - Physics-AI hybrid modeling for fine-grained weather forecasting (NeurIPS'24)
  • Awesome Large Weather Models - Curated list of large weather models for AI Earth science
  • TerraTorch - Python toolkit for fine-tuning geospatial foundation models
  • Earth-Agent - LLM agent framework for Earth Observation with 104 specialized tools across 5 functional kits
  • AI for Earth - Microsoft's environmental AI

🌾 Agriculture & Ecology

Agricultural AI

  • PlantNet - Plant identification using AI and citizen science
  • AgML - Agricultural machine learning platform

Ecological Modeling


🤖 Foundation Models for Science

General Science Models

  • Galactica - Large language model for science
  • MinervaAI - Mathematical reasoning
  • PaLM-2 - Scientific reasoning capabilities

Domain-Specific Models

  • ESM - Protein language models
  • ChemGPT - Chemistry-focused language model
  • BioGPT - Biomedical text generation

📈 Datasets & Benchmarks

Multidisciplinary

Biology & Medicine

Chemistry & Materials

Physics


💻 Computing Frameworks

Machine Learning

  • PyTorch - Deep learning framework
  • JAX - High-performance ML research
  • TensorFlow - End-to-end ML platform

Scientific Computing

Scientific Machine Learning Frameworks

  • SciML - Scientific machine learning ecosystem
  • DifferentialEquations.jl - Multi-language suite for high-performance differential equation solving and scientific machine learning (3.0k+ stars)
  • ModelingToolkit.jl - Acausal modeling framework for automatically parallelized scientific machine learning (1.5k+ stars)
  • SciMLBenchmarks.jl - Scientific machine learning benchmarks & differential equation solvers
  • NeuralPDE.jl - Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) for solving partial differential equations (1.1k+ stars)
  • DiffEqFlux.jl - Neural ordinary differential equations with O(1) backprop and GPU support (900+ stars)
  • Optimization.jl - Unified interface for local, global, gradient-based and derivative-free optimization (800+ stars)
  • PaddleScience - SDK & library for AI-driven scientific computing applications
  • Flux.jl - Machine learning in Julia

Specialized Frameworks

  • MDAnalysis - Molecular dynamics analysis
  • ASE - Atomic Simulation Environment for materials modeling
  • PyMC - Probabilistic programming
  • OpenMM - High-performance molecular simulation toolkit

🎓 Educational Resources

Courses & Tutorials

Open Access Educational Materials

📋 Paper Collections & Repositories

YouTube Channels


🏛 Research Communities

Conferences

Organizations

Online Communities


📚 Related Awesome Lists

This project builds upon and complements several excellent resources:

🎯 Specialized Collections

📊 Paper & Research Collections

🌟 Key Insights from These Collections

  • Current Focus: Shift from tool-level assistance to autonomous scientific agents
  • Emerging Trends: Multi-modal scientific models, self-improving research systems
  • Research Gaps: Evaluation frameworks, ethical governance, human-AI collaboration
  • Future Directions: Fully autonomous discovery cycles, robotic lab integration

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see our Contributing Guidelines for details.

How to Contribute

  1. Fork this repository
  2. Add your resource in the appropriate section
  3. Ensure the format matches existing entries
  4. Submit a pull request with a clear description

Contribution Guidelines

  • Ensure the resource is actively maintained
  • Include a brief, clear description
  • Check for duplicates before adding
  • Use proper markdown formatting

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.


🙏 Acknowledgments

Special thanks to all researchers and developers pushing the boundaries of AI for Science. This list is inspired by the awesome community and the transformative potential of AI in scientific discovery.

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Last updated: October 2025 - Enhanced with 2024-2025 breakthroughs in autonomous research, document parsing, and scientific agents

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