Terms of Use

These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of Protplex, including the Protplex website, search tools, account features, APIs, MCP-compatible tools, and supported integrations. Protplex is operated by Straintest LLC, Hagenholzstrasse 62, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland. References in these Terms to Protplex, we, us, or our mean Straintest LLC.

Straintest Bio Initiative is a public-facing initiative or project name used by Straintest LLC. By accessing or using Protplex, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use Protplex.

Protplex provides protein-structure search, retrieval, ranking, summarization, and related account and integration features through the Protplex website and supported integrations, including MCP-compatible clients and third-party assistant platforms where made available.

We may update, improve, limit, suspend, or discontinue features at any time. Service descriptions, documentation, examples, and search coverage are provided for general information and do not guarantee that any feature, dataset, integration, or result will remain available or meet your requirements.

Some features require sign-in or an integration-specific authorization flow. You must provide accurate account information and keep it current. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials, tokens, API keys, and authorized client sessions, and for all activity that occurs under your account or authorized client.

You must promptly notify us if you believe your account, credentials, tokens, or authorized sessions have been compromised. We may rotate, revoke, throttle, or disable credentials or integrations to protect Protplex, users, third-party platforms, data sources, or legal compliance.

Protplex may be accessible through ChatGPT, OpenAI services, MCP-compatible clients, or other third-party assistant or agent platforms. Your use of those platforms is governed by their own terms, policies, privacy notices, and account rules. Protplex is an independent service and is not made, endorsed, operated, or guaranteed by OpenAI or any other third-party platform unless expressly stated.

You must not use Protplex through a third-party platform in a way that violates that platform's terms, usage policies, safety rules, or developer requirements. We may limit, suspend, or refuse integration access where necessary to comply with platform rules, protect users, or prevent misuse.

You may access Protplex only through the website, documented interfaces, authorized integrations, or other methods we make available. You must not use automated systems, scripts, agents, crawlers, or MCP clients in a way that exceeds documented limits, degrades service performance, circumvents quotas, hides usage, or creates unreasonable load.

Unless we expressly allow it, you may not cache, redistribute, resell, or bulk-republish Protplex results or third-party scientific data obtained through Protplex except as permitted by applicable third-party licences and documented Protplex functionality.

Protplex may reference, link to, rank, summarize, or derive information from third-party scientific resources, including the Protein Data Bank and related public datasets. Protplex does not own or control third-party scientific databases. We do not guarantee that third-party data is complete, current, accurate, available, properly attributed, or suitable for your intended use.

Your use of third-party materials remains subject to applicable third-party terms, licence conditions, citation norms, and attribution requirements. You are responsible for reviewing and complying with those requirements.

As between you and Straintest LLC, you retain ownership of content, prompts, queries, search parameters, identifiers, files, feedback, and other materials you submit to Protplex, which we call User Content. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, process, transmit, display, and use User Content as necessary to provide, secure, maintain, debug, and improve Protplex, subject to our Privacy Policy.

You represent that you have the rights and permissions needed to submit User Content to Protplex and that your User Content does not violate law, third-party rights, confidentiality duties, or these Terms. We do not claim ownership of your User Content.

Subject to these Terms and any third-party terms, licences, or attribution requirements that apply to underlying scientific data, you may use outputs generated for you by Protplex for your research, evaluation, educational, publication, collaboration, and business purposes, subject to third-party terms, licences, citation requirements, and attribution requirements. Outputs may not be unique, and similar or identical outputs may be provided to other users.

Protplex outputs may include, link to, summarize, rank, or derive from third-party scientific resources. Your use of third-party materials remains subject to the applicable third-party terms, licences, citation requirements, and attribution requirements.

Protplex, including the website, software, APIs, MCP tools, user interface, workflows, rankings, indexes, models, databases created by us, documentation, logos, names, and other service materials, is owned by Straintest LLC or its licensors and is protected by intellectual-property and other laws.

Except for the limited right to use Protplex under these Terms, we do not grant you any ownership interest or licence in Protplex or our intellectual property. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, sublicense, or create derivative works from Protplex except as expressly permitted by these Terms, documented interfaces, or applicable law.

You may not use the Protplex, Straintest, or Straintest Bio Initiative names, logos, or branding in a way that implies endorsement, partnership, or sponsorship without our prior written permission.

Protplex is intended to support scientific discovery, literature triage, protein-structure search, and related research workflows. Protplex is not a medical device, clinical decision-support system, diagnostic tool, regulatory compliance tool, laboratory safety system, or substitute for professional scientific judgment.

Search results, rankings, summaries, annotations, links, and other outputs may be incomplete, inaccurate, outdated, mis-ranked, or based on third-party data that contains errors. You are responsible for independently verifying outputs against primary scientific sources, experimental evidence, applicable protocols, and professional judgment before relying on them for scientific, clinical, regulatory, operational, commercial, or safety-related decisions.

Do not use Protplex as the sole basis for diagnosis, treatment, patient care, regulatory filings, laboratory procedures, hazardous experiments, intellectual-property decisions, or commercial development decisions.

Some features may require a paid plan. Prices, quotas, limits, billing intervals, renewal terms, and cancellation options will be disclosed at purchase. Unless stated otherwise, subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Fees are non-refundable except where required by law or expressly stated at purchase. You are responsible for applicable taxes, duties, and similar charges.

If Protplex is currently offered without charge or as an experimental service, we may introduce paid plans, quotas, usage limits, or subscription features in the future. Paid features may be subject to additional terms disclosed at purchase or activation.

We may suspend, throttle, revoke, or terminate access if we reasonably believe you have violated these Terms, created security or abuse risk, violated third-party platform or data-source rules, or if continued access would expose us, users, third-party platforms, data sources, or others to legal, operational, or security harm.

Upon suspension or termination, your right to access Protplex ends immediately. Sections that by their nature should survive will survive, including ownership, third-party terms, disclaimers, liability limits, indemnity, governing law, and payment obligations. We may retain or delete data associated with your account according to our Privacy Policy and legal obligations.

Protplex is provided as is and as available. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including warranties of accuracy, availability, reliability, security, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement.

We do not warrant that Protplex will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, current, complete, or compatible with your systems or workflows.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Straintest LLC and its affiliates, officers, employees, contractors, licensors, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, scientific opportunity, business opportunity, regulatory approval, or research progress, arising from or relating to Protplex or these Terms.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability arising from or relating to Protplex or these Terms will not exceed the greater of CHF 100 or the amount you paid to us for Protplex in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable law, including liability for intentional misconduct or any mandatory consumer rights that cannot be waived.

We may update these Terms from time to time. If changes are material, we will take reasonable steps to provide notice, such as posting an updated version, changing the Last updated date, sending email, or providing in-product notice. Changes become effective when posted unless a later date is stated.

Your continued use of Protplex after the effective date means you accept the updated Terms. If you do not agree, you must stop using Protplex.

Questions about these Terms can be sent to protplex@straintest.co.

Legal notices must be sent to Straintest LLC, Hagenholzstrasse 62, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland, with a copy to protplex@straintest.co.