arXiv:2608. 04942v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: CheMLFlow is an open-source platform for building and executing end-to-end, high-throughput, and agentic workflows for scientific and technological applications.
By Brendan Smith, Susana Lopez-Moreno, Eric Dolores-Cuenca, Sangil Kim, Jose L. Mendoza-Cortes, Nijamudheen Abdulrahiman
arXiv:2608. 06961v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Early-stage molecular design is an iterative process, not just a task of generating molecules.
By Zhu Wang, Jiangyu Chen, Yingjun Shang, Yuhui Yao, Laiao Lu, Tianfan Fu, Na Zou
El Agente Potente is an agentic system that integrates typed execution graphs and a coding mode to facilitate machine‑learning interatomic potential (MLIP) driven atomistic simulations. Typed execution graphs offer structured, provenance‑aware workflows where large language models handle planning and routing while deterministic Python code performs scientific computation and validation. The coding agent builds customized workflows for tasks needing procedural flexibility, invoking existing Potente functions for supported calculations. The system is demonstrated across materials discovery, energy‑landscape exploration, adsorption, and catalytic reaction workflows, with benchmarks on reproducibility and LLM token cost.
By Tsz Wai Ko, Jiaru Bai, Thomas Swanick, Yeonghun Kang, Changhyeok Choi, Angelina Qihong Jiang, Aiwei Yin, Varinia Bernales, Al\'an Aspuru-Guzik
OSWorld-Science is a benchmark and evaluation environment for computer-using agents that use visual language models (VLMs) to perform scientific software tasks. It includes 12 VLMs and 146 high-quality tasks across domains such as molecular drawing, pathology image analysis, statistical computing, and physical simulation, with artifact-based evaluation and a harness that logs interactions and supports model comparison. The benchmark was developed through expert proposals and iterative human–AI co‑design, and results show that current VLMs still struggle with key scientific questions, offering insights into factors like language, reasoning, and context length.
By Dingyuan Dai, Heli Qi, Lei Liu, Yinxi Li, Baiding Chen, Zijun Dou, Qingcheng Zeng, Qi Kang, Oliver Sun, Eric Wang, Bo Zhou, Haixin Wang, Yufan Du, Shi Bo, Ruihan Lin, Mengqi Yuan, Dunjie Lu, Steven Dillmann, Yiming Shi, Tina Su, Amy Xin, Minghao Liu, Xi Wang, Xu Huang, Ge Zhang, Pengyu Nie, Zhen Yang, Jie Tang, Juanzi Li, Weihao Xuan, Tianyu Liu
arXiv:2607. 22677v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientific datasets intended for AI use require both computational readiness for model training and metadata readiness for discovery, sharing, and reuse.
By Sean R. Wilkinson, Polina Shpilker, Wesley Brewer
arXiv:2607. 02771v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Leadership computing facilities steward large-scale scientific datasets that routinely require substantial transformation before serving as AI training data.
By Sean R. Wilkinson, Valentine G. Anantharaj, Jong Youl Choi, Ketan Maheshwari, Marshall McDonnell, Massimiliano Lupo Pasini, Polina Shpilker, Renan Souza, Patrick Widener, Sarp Oral, Wesley Brewer
FrontierChallenge is a cross‑domain benchmark that releases 300 end‑to‑end scientific workflows, of which 97 are evaluated in this study. The benchmark covers diverse fields such as quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics, materials characterization, analytical chemistry, life science, and electrochemistry/environment, and requires agents to produce a bundle of fixed scientific deliverables. Twelve frontier models were tested, and the best configurations completed only 20 of the 97 tasks, achieving a 20.6% pass rate; high partial scores and confident completion claims often did not translate into full delivery, especially in analytical chemistry and electrochemistry/environment.
By Liangcai Su, Zhaopeng Feng, Zhuo Chen, Zhen Zhang, Xiang Lin, Ruilin Li, Handuo Zhang, Ning Wang, Kailong Wen, Yueqi Guo, Feng Xing, Yiling Guo, Chenxiong Qian, Simon Shaolei Du, Lidong Bing, Xinyu Wang
arXiv:2606. 18425v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientific workflow management systems (WMS) support scalable and reproducible execution of complex pipelines, but workflow design, implementation, and debugging remain largely manual and require significant expertise.
By Komal Thareja, Hamza Safri, Rajiv Mayani, Anirban Mandal, Ewa Deelman
OpenAI4S is an open‑source scientific research agent that treats code as action and science as sessions, combining a persistent computing runtime with structured session management. It uses tool calls for orchestration, executes code cells in persistent Python and R kernels, and records an append‑only Action Ledger, per‑cell execution logs, versioned artifacts, environment snapshots, and workspace checkpoints to preserve provenance and enable session recovery, branching, and extension. Evaluated on 36 research scenarios—including retrosynthesis, molecular dynamics, and protein design—OpenAI4S achieved a higher overall score (7.83) than a general‑purpose coding harness, especially on long‑horizon, computation‑intensive workflows, though reproducibility remains an open challenge.
whyItMatters":"The system demonstrates that persistent execution coupled with session‑level provenance can enhance the reliability of AI‑assisted scientific workflows, as evidenced by its superior performance across diverse research scenarios."
By Gongbo Zhang, Hao Li, Yu Wang, Mujie Lin, Liuzhenghao Lv, Yicheng Mao, Yimi Wang, Jun Zhu, Minhan Tang, Zhengxiang Jiang, Yusong Wang, Jiayu Yao, Kunpeng Ning, Dawei Pang, Yonghong Tian, OpenAI4S Community, Yuyang Liu, Li Yuan
arXiv:2608. 02642v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accelerating scientific discovery is among the most consequential applications of AI, and computational biomolecular simulation stands out as a particularly promising target within this broader effort.
By Nithishwer Mouroug Anand, Wei-Tse Hsu, Kyle Vaccaro, Eden James Gage, Jonathan David Colburn, Linda Xi Phan, Minjoon Seo, Kevin Guan, Philip C. Biggin
arXiv:2607. 16038v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific work increasingly spans heterogeneous artifacts -- papers, code, datasets, scientific file formats, model outputs, figures, manuscripts, and team decisions -- yet general-purpose AI assistants rarely preserve these objects as a coherent, auditable research state.
By SciForge Team, Zhangyang Gao, Minghao Fang, Yifei Liu, Hanhui Yang, Xinyu Gu, Shixiang Tang, Siqi Sun, Lei Bai, Cheng Tan, Mengdi Liu, Hao Wu, Shuizhou Chen
arXiv:2608. 02027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present scikit-fingerprints, a comprehensive, fully scikit-learn compatible library for molecular machine learning in Python, based on RDKit.
By Jakub Adamczyk, Adam Staniszewski