AI Tools

AI for scientific research is becoming more popular. You can efficiently solve challenging scientific problems using AI-driven technologies. Explore these tools to improve the capacity for research and drive advancement in your field.

Category	Name	Description
Large language models	Blablador	Blablador is an evaluation server for Large Language Models (LLMs) not a language model itself. Users can access a chat interface and an API to get hands-on experience with LLMs. Note: We recommended to use BlaBlaDor for you research in terms of its privacy focus (Blablador hosts both open-source models and those created by the Helmholtz Association).
	ChatGPT	ChatGPT is a free-to-use proprietary AI system from OpenAI, a BigTech company from the US. It allows users to engage in conversations, gain insights and automate NLP tasks. Note: Use not recommended due to security concerns.
	claude AI	Claude is a family of proprietary foundational AI models that can be used in various NLP applications. You can talk directly with Claude at claude.ai to brainstorm ideas, analyze images, and process long documents.
	Gemini	Gemini gives you direct access to Google AI. Get help with writing, planning, learning, and more. Gemini is the product of Alphabet (formerly known as Google) a BigTech company from the US. Note: Use not recommended due to security concerns.
	Mistral	Mistral AI is a french company that offers several customized open source LLMs
Image generation	Dall-E	Dall-E 3 is an AI system that can create realistic images and art from a natural-language description.
	Midjourney	AI image generation.
Video generation	runway	AI video generation.
	Sora	Sora is a text-to-video AI model that can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions.
Coding assistance	Aider chat	Aider lets you pair program with LLMs in your terminal, to edit code in your local git repository, and it also integrates with Blablador
	Continue	Continue enables developers to create, share, and use custom AI code assistants with open-source VS Code extensions and hub of models.
	GitHub Copilot	The extension is an AI pair programmer tool that helps you write code faster and smarter.
Research Tools	Connectedpapers	Connected Papers can be used to identify relevant papers and authors, and to understand the relationships between different studies.
	Consensus	Consensus can be used to identify areas of agreement and disagreement among researchers and can also identify gaps in current knowledge and suggest new research directions.
	Elicit	Elicit can also be used to quickly grasp the main findings and contributions of a research paper.
	Inciteful	Inciteful provides free tools to help accelerate academic research. Available tools are Paper Discovery and the Literature Connector.
	label stud	An open-source data labeling tool that supports labeling images, text, and other data types, with AI-assisted labeling options.
	litmaps	Creates interactive maps of research papers and authors. Litmaps can also be used to visualize the connections between papers
	Local citation network	The web app visualizes 'local citation networks,' subsets of the global citation network defined by the references of a given set of Seed Articles.
	Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG)	enables researchers to create, share, and reuse research knowledge in a structured and machine-readable format.
	Perplexity	Perplexity can be used to find relevant information and insights from a vast amount of scientific literature.
	Researchrabbit.ai	tool for discovering relevant research papers and academic articles.
	Scholarcy	platform that uses AI to summarize and analyze research papers to quickly understand the main findings and contributions.
	Science OS	Science-os is a set of tools (AI pdf chat, science chat, and reference manager) that helps accelerate your research.
	SciSpace	SciSpace can be used to analyze and visualize research papers, authors, and institutions.
	Scite	Uses AI to provide “Smart Citations,” categorizing citations by whether they support, dispute, or mention a given work.
	semantic scholar	Generates text, summarizes research papers, answers questions, and helps brainstorm ideas.
	Undermind	AI assistant carefully reads hundreds of academic papers for you, finding exactly what you need.