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Describe the experiment you want — Vara's AI builds the cards, steps, parameters, and workflow for you.

Break every experiment into steps you can see

Let AI power your experiments and take the busywork out of research.

Human organoids with an autologous tissue-resident immune compartment

Recaldin et al · Nature · 2024

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Sampling & ethics

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T_RM isolation

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Gut organoids

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IIO co-culture

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mIF staining

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Live imaging

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scRNA-seq

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Drug induction

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Stop manually copying methods sections and guessing missing parameters. AI extracts, you verify, then execute.

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Drop in a PDF, Word doc, or even a photo of handwritten notes. Supports 10 discipline-specific parsers.

AI Extracts, You Verify

AI extracts the full protocol and tags every field with a confidence level (explicit / partial / inferred / missing) so you know exactly what to verify.

Verify, Execute, Iterate

Resolve risk items, start a run, check off steps as you go. Something failed? One-click iterate to the next version.

Who is Vara for?

Graduate Students

Reproducing a paper for the first time, unsure if the parameters are right

Researchers

Managing multiple experiment versions and tracking changes across iterations

PIs & Lab Leads

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Core Features

Project & Experiment Management

Organize projects, experiment groups, sub-experiments, and procedure steps in a structured workflow.

AI Paper Reproduction

Upload a protocol PDF and let AI extract the full procedure and parameters to create an executable workflow.

Smart Parameter Management

Define variables with formulas, link them to steps, and use AI to check parameter consistency.

Run Logging & Tracking

Record observations, deviations, and outcomes for each experiment run with full traceability.

AI Experiment Q&A

Chat with AI about your experiment data — analyze steps, parameters, and results through multi-turn conversations to accelerate iteration.

Document Parsing

Auto-extract methods and parameters from literature, kit manuals, and SOPs to reduce manual entry.

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Your experiment data belongs to you

We built privacy into the architecture, not on top of it. Four guarantees below.

Invisible to admins

Platform administrators can only see project names and aggregate statistics. They cannot access your experiment steps, parameter values, run logs, or any specific content.

Complete data isolation

Each user's data is fully isolated at the database level. All queries enforce ownership verification — no one else can access your data.

Never used for AI training

Your experiment data is never used to train any AI model. AI features only process data when you invoke them — nothing is retained afterwards.

End-to-end encryption

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