# llms.txt for https://bio-protocol.org

Bio-protocol is a peer-reviewed journal and community platform that publishes and shares step-by-step life science protocols to improve research reproducibility. 
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# WHAT MAY BE USED WITHOUT A LICENSE
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# - Indexing and crawling of public protocol pages
# - Retrieval and citation in AI-generated responses
# - Non-commercial research and educational use
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# WHAT REQUIRES A LICENSE
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# - Systematic retrieval by a commercial product
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# - Any use for training, fine-tuning, RL, or model improvement
# - Construction of evaluation / benchmark sets from our content

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