NEW ยท Online Version
๐Ÿš€ BioClaw is now online

No install, no setup โ€” run the full AI bioinformatics assistant right in your browser, free to try.

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AI ยท Bioinformatics ยท Multi-Platform

BioClaw โ€” the research
assistant biologists deserve.

BLAST searches, protein structure rendering, sequencing QC, literature mining โ€” through natural language in any chat.

Get Started
BioClaw ยท agent session
$ @BioClaw BLAST this sequence against nr
 
โ–ถ Running BLAST+ ncbi/nr
  query_length=248aa ยท e-value=1e-5
 
โœ“ Top hits returned
  1. TP53_HUMAN  Score=520  E=0.0
  2. TP53_MOUSE  Score=498  E=0.0
  3. TP63_HUMAN  Score=312  E=2e-89
 
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PyMOL render complete
FastQC report ready
Multi-Platform

Works wherever your team chats

One agent, every surface โ€” real results delivered back to the conversation.

Channel config โ†’ docs/CHANNELS.md ยท Local web includes lab trace (SSE timeline) โ†’ docs/DASHBOARD.md

Capabilities

What BioClaw can do

Send a natural language message โ€” BioClaw handles the rest, returning results directly to your chat.

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Workspace Triage

Analyze files and recommend the best next analysis steps.

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FastQC Quality Control

Run FastQC on FASTQ files and deliver the QC report.

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BLAST Sequence Search

BLAST a protein sequence against NCBI nr database.

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Volcano Plot Generation

Create differential expression plots from a CSV file.

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Protein Structure Rendering

Fetch a PDB structure, render with PyMOL, send image.

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PubMed Literature Search

Search PubMed and provide structured paper summaries.

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Hydrogen Bond Analysis

Visualize H-bonds between ligand and protein.

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Binding Site Visualization

Show residues within 5ร… of a ligand as an image.

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Toolkit & skills

A full bioinformatics toolkit

Command-line tools and Python libraries pre-installed in Docker, plus 25 built-in skill guides for analyses, omics workflows, and public-database lookups โ€” all reachable in natural language.

Agent skills

25+ runtime skills

Actively growing

Workflows & utilities

bio-toolsblast-searchsequence-analysispubmed-searchsds-gel-reviewagent-browser

Omics & structural biology

scrna-preprocessing-clusteringcell-annotationchip-seqatac-seqdifferential-expressionproteomicsmetagenomicsstructural-biology

Database & API queries

query-alphafoldquery-clinvarquery-ensemblquery-geoquery-interproquery-keggquery-opentargetquery-pdbquery-reactomequery-stringdbquery-uniprot
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More skills in development
New analysis workflows, database integrations, and visualization tools are continuously being added. Check back or star the repo to stay updated.
Architecture

How it works

Built on NanoClaw. Each group runs in an isolated Docker container with a full bioinformatics environment. Powered by the STELLA framework.

Chatโ”€โ”€โ–บNode.js Orchestratorโ”€โ”€โ–บSQLiteโ”€โ”€โ–บDocker Container
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Claude Agent SDK
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Bioinformatics Toolbox
BLAST+SAMtoolsBWAPyMOLFastQCminimap2scanpyPyDESeq2BioPythonpandasmatplotlibRDKit
Container Isolation โ€” each group has its own Docker workspace
Filesystem IPC โ€” results delivered back via filesystem
Channel Agnostic โ€” Feishu ยท WeCom ยท Discord ยท Slack ยท WeChat ยท QQ ยท local web
Quick Start

Up and running in minutes

Requires Node.js 20+ and Docker Desktop. Supports Anthropic API and OpenRouter.

$git clone https://github.com/Runchuan-BU/BioClaw.git && cd BioClaw && npm install && npm start
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Citation

Cite this work

BioClaw is described in our preprint, and builds on the STELLA framework. If you use it in research, please cite the BioClaw preprint (and STELLA where relevant).

BibTeX ยท BioClaw
@article{xu2026bioclaw, title={BioClaw: Human-Bot Research Collaboration Ecosystems in Group Chats}, author={Xu, Mingyang and Yan, Jiaxian and Feng, Runchuan and Cai, Qingran and Zhang, Peng and Zhao, Chuang and He, Cao and Wei, Zongting and Li, Jianping and Lin, Shiyi and Dong, Hongyu and Jin, Ruofan and Hou, Tingjun and Liu, Qi and Zhang, Zaixi}, journal={bioRxiv}, year={2026}, doi={10.64898/2026.04.11.716807} }
๐Ÿ“„ bioRxiv
BibTeX ยท STELLA
@article{jin2025stella, title={STELLA: Towards a Biomedical World Model with Self-Evolving Multimodal Agents}, author={Jin, Ruofan and Xu, Mingyang and Meng, Fei and Wan, Guancheng and Cai, Qingran and Jiang, Yize and Han, Jin and Chen, Yuanyuan and Lu, Wanqing and Wang, Mengyang and Lan, Zhiqian and Jiang, Yuxuan and Liu, Junhong and Wang, Dongyao and Cong, Le and Zhang, Zaixi}, journal={bioRxiv}, year={2025}, doi={10.1101/2025.07.01.662467} }
๐Ÿ“„ bioRxiv๐Ÿ“‘ arXiv 2507.02004
Contact

Get in touch

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We'd love to hear from you
Research collaboration ยท Integration partnership ยท Investment inquiry ยท Bug report ยท Feature request ยท General questions โ€” all welcome.
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