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Democratizing AI Scientists for Science¶

ToolUniverse is a unified ecosystem that transforms any large language model (LLM)—open or closed—into a powerful AI scientist. By standardizing how LLMs identify and call tools, it integrates over 1000 scientific resources, including machine learning models, datasets, APIs, and analysis packages.

With its AI-Tool Interaction Protocol, ToolUniverse provides a common interface for seamless communication between LLMs and tools, ensuring compatibility across platforms such as GPT, Claude, Gemini, and open-source models.

🚀 Start Here¶

New to ToolUniverse? Follow this path:

  1. Quickstart (5 min) → Quick Start

    Try your first query without reading lengthy docs

  2. Getting Started (30 min) → Getting Started with ToolUniverse

    Step-by-step tutorial covering core concepts

  3. Choose Your Integration → Building AI Scientists

    Connect to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or use Python API

Already familiar? Jump to:

Important

🔍 Looking for specific tools?

ToolUniverse has 3 specialized search tools to find what you need:

  • Tool_Finder_Keyword - Fast keyword search (“protein structure”, “drug interactions”)

  • Tool_Finder_LLM - Natural language search (“find tools for analyzing gene expression”)

  • Tool_Finder - Semantic embedding search (most powerful, finds by meaning)

→ See Tool Finder Tutorial for detailed guide on finding and using tools.

Building your AI Scientists¶

Transform any LLM/Reasoning Model/Agent into a powerful research scientist with ToolUniverse’s comprehensive integration guides:

đź“– Complete Tutorial: Building AI Scientists Overview

🌍 Ecosystem & Community¶

Open Science

  • Open-source ecosystem encouraging community contributions

  • Standardized tool specifications for agentic AI

  • Integration with heterogeneous scientific workflows

Join the Community

📚 Documentation Structure¶

🚀 Getting Started

🤖 Building AI Scientists

đź’ˇ Use ToolUniverse

🔨 Add Tools to ToolUniverse

🔧 Tools

🔌 API

âť“ Reference