Baranzini Lab · UCSF

The AI-native
biomedical research environment.

Biorouter combines local, institutional and commercial models in one place. Private data stays private, inside your institution, and shared workflows carry the method, never the data.

Free and open source · macOS, Windows, Linux · v1.94.0

NewBiorouter at Jupyter Day 2026, Recording available

One interface, every model.

Local models on your computer, models your institution hosts, commercial APIs, and the Claude Code or Codex plan you already pay for. Switch inside a chat.

Principles

01

Private stays private.

A chat that uses a private model or private data becomes private, and stays private. It is never sent to a model hosted outside your institution, and public chats cannot read it.

02

Share the method, not the data.

A workflow carries instructions, never records. Each site runs the same workflow on its own data, with its own models, under its own agreements.

How workflows travel

03

Built for biomedical research.

Connect clinical warehouses, knowledge graphs, literature and lab systems from the marketplace. Add skills for omics, statistics and writing. Keep what you learn in a knowledge base with a biomedical vocabulary.

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Community

Join the Biorouter Slack.

Ask questions, report problems, request features, and share workflows with researchers who use Biorouter.

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Capabilities

Workflows

Package instructions, extensions, skills and a model into one file. Run it again, or share it.

Scheduling

Run a workflow on a schedule, or loop a prompt at an interval while you work.

Skills

Teach the agent a method once. Install research skills from BAAM or write your own.

Knowledge bases

A wiki the agent writes and reads, with typed links, sources and history. BioOKF adds a biomedical vocabulary.

Built apps

Describe a tool and the agent builds it. Then it works inside the app with you.

Crew

Work with your lab in shared channels. Each person's agent runs on their own computer, with their own model.

Start with Biorouter.

Download the app, connect a model, and ask your first question. The biorouter command line tool comes with it.