Terms of Use
1. Acceptance
By using this website you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the site.
2. What the service is
Aaron's Archive provides free tools for analysing DNA, RNA and protein sequences (statistics, alignments, primers, mutation effect prediction, CRISPR guide design, BLAST searches, structure viewing, phylogenetic trees and optional AI commentary). It is provided for education and general research. It is not medical, clinical or genetic-counselling advice and must not be used to diagnose, treat or make decisions about any person's health.
3. Accuracy of results
Results depend on algorithms, simplifying assumptions and third-party databases we do not control. BLAST and structure results come from EMBL-EBI, NCBI, UniProt, RCSB PDB and AlphaFold DB. AI commentary is generated by a third-party model and can be wrong or misleading. Always verify important results with primary sources and appropriate professional tools.
4. Your responsibilities
- Use the site lawfully and do not try to disrupt, overload or bypass the limits of the site or of the services it connects to. Automated or bulk use is not permitted.
- Only submit sequences you are allowed to share. Searches are passed to third-party services (see the Privacy Policy), so do not submit confidential, proprietary or unpublished sequences, or another person's genetic data without their permission.
- If you use the AI feature you supply your own key. You are responsible for that key, for any charges or limits on it, and for following the provider's terms.
5. Third-party data and software
- UniProt data is available under CC BY 4.0. AlphaFold Protein Structure Database data is available under CC BY 4.0. RCSB PDB data is available under CC0 1.0. NCBI and EMBL-EBI services are subject to their own terms and fair-use policies, which apply to searches run through this site. Individual database records may carry their own conditions.
- The Ramachandran plot uses the MolProbity Top8000 reference distributions (Williams et al. 2018, Protein Science 27:293–315; Richardson Laboratory, Duke University), licensed under CC BY 4.0. We converted them into outlier / allowed / favoured regions.
- RNA folding uses the ViennaRNA Package (Ivo Hofacker and co-authors, Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna), used under its licence for research and educational use.
- This site includes third-party open-source software under the licences of its authors: Chart.js (MIT), 3Dmol.js (BSD-3-Clause), and the IBM Plex Sans, JetBrains Mono and Source Serif 4 fonts (SIL Open Font License 1.1). These components stay under their own licences; none of the terms below restrict them. The full list, with links to the licence texts, is on the Credits & licences page.
6. Ownership and permitted use
Aaron's Archive is free to use and shows no advertising. The site is proprietary: its source code is private, and its own code, design, text, guides, logo and other original material are © 2026 the operator, all rights reserved. Third-party components (section 5) are the exception and remain under their own licences.
We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable permission to use the website for your own learning, study and research. Without our written permission you may not:
- copy, republish, mirror or redistribute the site or a substantial part of its code, design, text or guides, or build a competing or derivative service from them;
- scrape the site, or use it automatically or in bulk (see section 4);
- reverse-engineer, decompile or try to extract the server-side code, except where the law does not allow this to be restricted;
- use the name or logo “Aaron's Archive” in a way that suggests we endorse you or your work.
This does not limit any right the law gives you that cannot be excluded by contract, such as quoting short passages with credit.
Your sequences and results are yours. We claim no ownership of what you enter or of the results you generate, and you may use results in coursework, reports and publications, subject to the third-party licences above. You do not need to credit or cite this site. Journals and instructors usually expect the underlying databases and tools to be cited; if you would like to mention this site as well, the Credits page has an optional form.
If you send us a suggestion or bug report, we may use it to improve the site without obligation or payment to you.
7. No warranty
The site is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, to the fullest extent permitted by law. We do not guarantee that it will be uninterrupted, error-free or that any result is accurate or fit for a particular purpose.
8. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the operator is not liable for any loss or damage arising from your use of, or inability to use, the site or from reliance on its results. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.
9. Changes and availability
The site is free to use at the moment and we do not intend to show advertising on it. We may nevertheless change, add limits to, suspend or end the site or these terms at any time. The “Last updated” date above shows the current version; continued use means you accept the changes.
10. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of India, without affecting any mandatory consumer rights you have under the law where you live.
11. Contact
Questions about these terms: aj2006.oommen@gmail.com ( · write in Gmail). You can also use the contact page.