Credits & licences
The work listed here belongs to other people and is used under its own licence. Thank you to everyone who makes it available.
Software and fonts served with this site
| Component | Licence | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| Chart.js 4.6.1 | MIT · licence text | All charts |
| 3Dmol.js 2.5.5 | BSD-3-Clause (includes code from GLmol, Three.js and jQuery) · licence text | 3D structure viewer |
| IBM Plex Sans | SIL Open Font License 1.1 · licence text | Interface text |
| JetBrains Mono | SIL Open Font License 1.1 · licence text | Sequences and data |
| Source Serif 4 | SIL Open Font License 1.1 · licence text | Guides and long reading |
RNA folding
- ViennaRNA Package — thermodynamic RNA folding. Copyright Ivo Hofacker and co-authors, Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna; used under its licence for research and educational use. Reference: Lorenz R. et al. (2011) ViennaRNA Package 2.0, Algorithms for Molecular Biology 6:26.
Data and services
- UniProt — CC BY 4.0. AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (Google DeepMind and EMBL-EBI) — CC BY 4.0. RCSB Protein Data Bank — CC0 1.0.
- NCBI BLAST (US National Library of Medicine) and EMBL-EBI Job Dispatcher run the BLAST searches under their own terms and fair-use policies.
- Ramachandran reference regions — MolProbity Top8000 distributions (Williams et al. 2018, Protein Science 27:293–315), Richardson Laboratory, Duke University, CC BY 4.0 (licence text). Changed by us: converted to outlier / allowed / favoured regions on a 2° grid.
Using results from this site
You do not need to credit or cite Aaron's Archive. It is free for everyone, shows no advertising, and your results are yours to use in coursework, reports and publications without mentioning this site (see the Terms of use, section 6). The credits above are the site's own thanks to other people's work, not a condition placed on you.
What journals and instructors usually do expect is that you cite the databases and methods behind a result, for example NCBI BLAST, UniProt, AlphaFold or ViennaRNA. If you would still like to mention this site, an optional form is: Aaron's Archive (2026). DNA, RNA & protein analysis toolkit. https://aarons-archive-seven.vercel.app. Accessed [date].