Paper to Protocol — Beta
Turn explicitly reported experimental methods into reviewable, scalable preparation workflows.
Upload a methods paper, check what it actually says, then scale the described preparation to your own experiment with transparent arithmetic.
Free during the LabCalc beta: 1 paper analysis per calendar month with a free account. Analyses that fail cost nothing.
How it works
Step 1
Upload a paper
A PDF of the publication you are working from. Text is read from the file; scanned images without a text layer are reported rather than guessed at.
Step 2
Identify described methods
Explicitly reported reagents, quantities, concentrations, volumes and conditions are located and structured, with the page they came from.
Step 3
Review extracted values
Nothing is used until you have checked it. Every field is labelled extracted, not specified or needs review, and you can correct any of it.
Step 4
Configure your experiment scale
Set your own sample count, replicates and volumes. The paper's reported ratios stay intact.
Step 5
Deterministic quantity calculation
Scaling uses the same LabCalc calculation functions as the public calculators — plain arithmetic with explicit units, not a language model.
Step 6
Preparation sheet
A reviewable sheet of quantities with the provenance of each value kept alongside it.
Extraction is AI. Arithmetic is not.
A language model is used for one job only: reading the paper and structuring the values it explicitly reports. Every number that changes — scaling a reaction to your sample count, converting units, computing masses and volumes — is produced by the same deterministic LabCalc calculation functions that power the public calculators. LabCalc does not invent missing experimental details: where a paper does not state something, it is marked as not specified and left to you.
What it does
- Extraction of explicitly reported quantities, concentrations and volumes
- Source-page provenance and the excerpt each value came from
- Review and correction before anything is scaled
- Missing information is identified instead of filled in
- Deterministic scaling by the shared calculation engine
- Preparation sheet generation from the reviewed method
Uploaded papers and everything extracted from them are private to your account. They are never shown to other users and never used as public content.
Scope and limits
Paper to Protocol does not validate a protocol, does not verify that an extraction is complete or correct, and makes no safety, regulatory or compliance assessment. You remain responsible for reviewing every value against the source publication before any laboratory work. LabCalc is provided as a calculation aid. Users remain responsible for verifying calculations, units, chemical compatibility, experimental procedures and applicable safety requirements before laboratory use.