Getting started

RBAi answers biology questions by calling databases and tools while it works: UniProt, RCSB PDB, AlphaFold DB, Ensembl, ClinVar, STRING and more, plus a corpus of 11 million papers. Each tool call is shown with its result, and the work can become a cited literature review, a report or a talk.

Chat

Questions in plain language, answered with live tool calls, structures and code. Chat

Projects and Studio

One study’s chats and sources, with answers that cite the passage of your own files, and Studio, which makes talks, visual summaries and documents from them. Projects and Studio

Report Writer

A document editor with a co-author that writes, reviews and cites. Report Writer

Literature Review

A cited review from one research question, written from the papers it read, with the diagrams and tables its writer chose and a chat that reads every paper. Literature Review

Galaxy Lab

Galaxy tools and workflows on the Galaxy server you choose, run by asking. Galaxy Lab

Jobs

Every long-running job in one list. Jobs

Connect

Find who has a reagent, a cell line or a service, message or email them, and send your work to other members. Connect

Website

A public site for your work, designed with AI, at your own address or domain. Website

API and MCP Cloud

The paper search and the tools from your own code and MCP clients. API and MCP Cloud

1. 1

   Create an account

   At /register, sign up with your email and a password, or with Google. With email, RBAi sends a 6-digit code to confirm the address; enter it on the same page.

2. 2

   Sign in

   At /login, sign in with the same email and password, or with Google. Forgot password? emails a link to choose a new password; it works for one hour.

3. 3

   Fill in your profile

   In Settings → Profile, your position, department and research interests tailor RBAi’s answers. Each field says what it is used for. What each profile field reaches

The Free plan includes credits every month, and every plan can use every part of the app. Plans

1. 1

   Ask a question

   Open Chat and ask in plain language, for example: How does MDM2 bind p53? Show me the structure. The tool calls appear as RBAi works, above the answer.

2. 2

   Point it at a tool

   Type @ in the composer to pick a tool, such as BLAST or PyMOL, or an agent skill. A mentioned tool is the only one the agent uses for that turn.

3. 3

   Check the sources

   Open a tool call to see its input and what it returned. Structures open in Structure Studio, and code runs in a sandbox of your own. Chat

1. 1

   Create a project

   Open Projects in the sidebar and choose New project: a name, and optionally a description and instructions every chat in it follows.

2. 2

   Add sources

   In Sources, choose Add sources and drop your PDFs, Word files, spreadsheets or slides, or add papers by DOI or PMID, web pages, recordings or pasted text. Each source shows Ready to cite once it is read. Add sources

3. 3

   Ask about them

   Start a chat in the project. Answers cite the passages they used as chips such as S2 p.7; click one to open the PDF at the passage. Answers that cite the page

4. 4

   Make something from them

   In Studio, describe what you need, for example a 15-minute lab meeting talk, and press Enter. Studio

The sidebar has one entry per area. On a phone it opens from the menu button.

Chat

Your conversations with the agent. Recent chats are listed under it.

Projects

One study’s chats, sources, Studio, instructions and memory, together. Inside a project, Recent lists that project’s chats.

Report Writer

Your documents, with the co-author.

Literature Review

New and past reviews.

Galaxy Lab

Galaxy chats and runs.

Jobs

Long-running work: BLAST searches, alignments, phylogenetic trees, Galaxy jobs and workflows, literature reviews and background jobs from a chat’s sandbox. Jobs

Connect

Messages with other researchers, your requests, and RBAi’s search for who can help.

Account menu

At the bottom of the sidebar: Settings, Usage & billing, the docs and sign-out. RBAi uses a light theme.

Every chat and every section of a project has its own address, so a reload, Back and Forward keep your place, and you can bookmark or share a link to it. Chat addresses

Long work runs on RBAi’s servers, so you can close the tab or switch to something else:

• a literature review, listed on the Literature Review page and in Jobs while it runs;
• a co-author task in the Report Writer: its edits are in the document when you come back;
• a Studio output, such as a briefing doc, a presentation or a visual summary: its row shows the step it is on, and the output is there when you come back;
• an AI site design request: Site design shows its progress, and the new version is your draft when it ends;
• a long sandbox run, such as a large alignment: it becomes a background job, and its result is posted in the chat;
• energy minimisation and docking in Structure Studio, with a progress row and Cancel;
• Galaxy jobs and workflows, followed in Jobs;
• reading the sources you add to a project.

A long literature review, co-author task or presentation build is not cut at a time limit: before each 15 minutes run out, it continues in a new run on its own. Each of them stops when your credits run out and keeps what it finished. When credits run out

The Beta badge beside RBAi at the top of the sidebar says that RBAi is in an experimental phase: features change, and occasional instability, such as a slow or interrupted request, is possible. Hover over the badge, or tap it, to read the note.

AI output can contain errors, so check important results against their sources before you rely on them. Section 2 of the Terms and Conditions and section 1 of the Privacy Policy say the same.