Site structure
Publication and update dates use Pacific Time (PST/PDT); event schedules use the stated event timezone.
The site is organized into six main areas:
- Learn — practical, hands-on tutorials for practitioners, plus a directory of courses & programs — classes, degrees, and certifications.
- Insights — real-world use cases, editorial articles, and the monthly Signal digest.
- Community — a peer forum for questions, discussion, and support.
- Products & Services — a living directory of AI products and services across the life sciences.
- Events — conferences, summits, webinars, workshops, and more. On any event page you can tap Attending to mark your interest; the button shows only the total count of Allbio.AI members attending — there is no per-person list.
- HIRE — Human Intelligence, Resources, and Experience: jobs at the intersection of AI and the life sciences.
Creating your account & profile
You can browse everything anonymously, but you'll need a free account to bookmark, upvote, post in the community, submit content, or post a job.
- One way to start. Use the Create your account page to sign up with your email and a password — you're signed in straight away.
- Passwords must be at least 8 characters. We also check new passwords against known breach lists, so common compromised passwords won't be accepted. A strength meter appears as you type to help you choose a secure one.
- Two quick steps unlock full membership. First, complete a short profile (name, role, company/institution). Second, click the confirmation link we email you — posting, commenting, and listing stay locked until you do. You can browse the whole time, and a banner at the top of the site shows any step that's still outstanding, with a resend button for the confirmation email.
- Policy acknowledgement. When you create an account or finish your profile, you'll be asked to confirm that you are 18 years old or older and that you agree to our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Cookies Policy, and Acceptable Use Policy.
- Complete your profile right after signing up. It asks for four things only: your real first and last name, current title/role, and current company/institution. Once your profile is complete and your email is confirmed, full membership features — posting, commenting, listing, and connecting with other members — are unlocked and you are listed in the member directory. If you head to a member-only area first, we send you to Complete your profile with a banner explaining why. After you save, a Profile saved screen confirms it, with links to start exploring or add optional details. Your first and last name lock once saved — contact support if they need correcting. You can resend the confirmation email from that screen or the banner (once every 10 minutes).
- Everything else lives on your account page. Your Account profile is where you add a photo, a short bio (max 1,000 characters, encouraged but entirely optional), up to 20 areas of expertise, location, LinkedIn, experience, education, certifications, publications, patents, links and languages — and where you set your email preferences, connection and privacy settings. None of it is required, and anything you leave blank simply doesn't appear.
- Control what's visible. Your email is always private. From Your Account profile you can toggle your photo and location between all members and connections only, and choose who can see your list of connections.
- Preview your public profile. Use the Preview how members see your profile → link at the top of your Account profile. When you're viewing your own profile, a View as control lets you check exactly how it looks to all members versus connections only.
- What saves automatically. On/off switches (email preferences, connection requests) and dropdown settings (profile visibility, connection list) save the moment you change them. Text you type — bio, title, experience and so on — needs Save changes; a save bar appears at the bottom as soon as you edit, and you're warned if you try to leave with unsaved text.
Finding people: directory, connections & messages
Allbio.AI has a member network built into the site. Once your profile is published:
- Browse the member directory (linked from your Account area) to find other members, filter by expertise, and open their profiles.
- Send connection requests from a member's profile via the Connect button. They get an email notification (if they haven't opted out) and can accept or decline; you manage requests from Account → Connections. The Connect button stays greyed out until your email is confirmed and your profile is finished.
- Your Connections page lists accepted connections alphabetically, showing each member's title/role, company/institution, and the date you connected. Use Search connections to find someone by name, title/role, or company/institution.
- Message your connections from Account → Messages — the Members tab (the default) shows your member-to-member conversations, most recent first. Sending messages needs a confirmed email and a finished profile.
- Mute a member with the Mute button in a conversation, or the more (⋯) menu on their profile. You stay connected, but you stop receiving their emails and unread counts. They can still send you messages and you'll still see them in the conversation — use Block if you want messages to stop. Muting is private and reversible — just select Unmute in the same place.
- Remove a connection from Account → Connections or the more (⋯) menu on their profile — messaging between you stops until one of you sends a new connection request.
- Block a member from the more (⋯) menu on their profile, or when they send you a request. Blocking ends the connection and stops messages both ways — your past conversation stays visible for your records, but neither of you can add to it. You can unblock anytime from the Unblock button on their profile or the Blocked members list on your Connections page; after unblocking, one of you sends a new connection request before messaging resumes.
- Report a member or a message. Use Report member in the more (⋯) menu on their profile, or Report this message under an individual message in a conversation. Reports go privately to the admin team's moderation queue — the member is never told who reported them.
- Opting out is symmetric. If you turn off connection requests, your Connect button disappears, you're removed from the member directory and member search, and you can no longer browse members or send requests yourself. Existing connections and conversations stay.
Upvoting, bookmarking, flagging & sharing
Every card and detail page has a row of small action icons — here's what each one does, in the order you'll see them:
- Upvoting. Tutorials, use cases, articles, and community posts can be upvoted by signed-in members. Upvotes help surface the most useful content — higher-voted items are easier for others to discover.
- Bookmarking. Tap the bookmark icon on nearly any card — tutorials, use cases, articles, products, courses, events, community threads, and job posts — to save it to your account. See everything you've saved on your private Bookmarked page, organized by content type. When you're signed in, the bookmark icon in the header shows a counter with how many items you've saved and gives you quick access. Items are labeled active, expired, or removed so you can tell at a glance what's still relevant. Bookmarks are private — no one else can see what you've saved.
- Flagging. If something looks wrong — spam, plagiarism, a possible violation of our Acceptable Use Policy — use the Flag action and pick a reason. Flagged content stays live until an admin reviews it, and your flag is private; the author never sees who flagged it.
- Sharing. Cards and detail pages have a share action: copy a link, use your device's native share sheet, or send by email.
Community forum
The Community forum is organized by category. You can:
- Start a new thread from the New post page.
- Reply to a thread, and reply to replies — the forum supports 2 levels of threading so conversations stay readable.
- Upvote posts and replies you found useful.
- Get notified by email when someone replies to you (opt out in email preferences).
- Edit or delete your own post. You can edit a thread or reply for 15 minutes after posting (the edit window resets each time you edit). After that, only deletion is available. The short window keeps threads readable and prevents replies from becoming disconnected from the original wording.
- Reference site content in your post. Click the Link to content button above the text box, or type @ followed by a keyword to search tutorials, articles, use cases, products, learning resources, and events. Pick a result and it will appear as a compact preview card in your post, so other members can jump straight to what you're talking about. Cards update automatically when the underlying content changes — if the item is later unpublished or removed, the card shows a "no longer available" or "removed" state instead of a broken link. Jobs and community threads are intentionally not referenceable (jobs are time-boxed and threads have a native reply action).
Keep discussion focused on AI in the life sciences and follow the Acceptable Use Policy.
The Signal
The Signal is Allbio.AI's monthly on-site digest. Each issue curates the best new tutorials, use cases, products, events, and community conversations — no email subscription required.
The first issue is planned for 1–2 months after launch, then monthly thereafter. Early months focus on building membership and listings so each issue has meaningful material to curate.
- Browse the archive. Visit the Signal landing page to read the latest issue or explore past issues.
- Referenced content. Issues link directly to site content with preview cards, so you can jump straight to a tutorial, product, event, or discussion.
- No spam. Because The Signal lives on the site, there are no newsletter emails to manage.
Cards, hosted pages & link-outs
Content on Allbio.AI appears in two ways, and the editorial submission forms let you choose between them:
- Cards are the compact tiles you see in every directory — a title, a short summary, and a few actions. Clicking a card takes you to the full content, wherever it lives.
- Hosted pages are full pages on Allbio.AI itself. Choose the Write my own option on an article, use-case, or tutorial form and your piece gets its own page on the site that members can read, comment on, upvote, and bookmark.
- Link-outs point to content that lives elsewhere — your blog post, a journal article, an external tutorial. Choose the Link to an existing page option instead. Your card still appears in the directory with your summary and source name. When a member submits a link-out, it gets a hosted page on Allbio.AI that links to the source; link-outs curated by the Allbio.AI team go straight to the external site. On a member link-out page, a prominent button opens the source, with a small "Link provided by the author" note beneath it.
- One type per submission. If you type in both Write my own and Link to an existing page, only the fields for the type selected when you submit are sent. The form's Preview has Card and Full page tabs so you can check both views first.
The short summary is what goes on the card. Cards show roughly the first three lines of it (the character limit for your form is shown by the counter next to the field); the full summary and body appear on the hosted page. Keep the key point within the card's visible length — check it with the preview before you submit.
Which should you pick? Link-outs are best when the full piece already exists elsewhere. Hosted pages are best when you want to write something new for the community, or when you want comments and discussion attached to it.
Reference IDs. Every item gets a short reference code (like AR-1042 for an article or JB-0871 for a job). You'll see it on the detail page and on your Submission status page — quote it when you contact support so we can find your item instantly. You can also search for it in site search.
Listing statuses. Your My listings page shows one of four statuses for each item. Draft means it isn't submitted or paid for yet — you can keep editing it. In review means it's being screened; after payment this usually takes a few minutes, and only longer (1–2 business days) if it's flagged for a person to check — we email you either way. Live means it's visible on the site and your paid term is running. Expired means the term has ended — you can renew it from the edit page.
Private feedback. When a reader sends private feedback on one of your listings, it appears in a "Private feedback" section on that listing's card under My listings — look for the "new feedback" pill on the card. We also email you when it arrives, as long as the feedback email preference is on.
Events vs. courses & programs
Events and courses can feel similar, but they are listed separately on Allbio.AI because the audience is different.
- Events are dated gatherings people attend: conferences, summits, webinars, workshops, meetups, hackathons, symposiums, expos, forums, seminars, and info sessions.
- Courses & Programs are structured instruction people enroll in, which may result in a certificate, credential, degree, diploma, badge, CE credits, PDUs, or an assessed portfolio.
- A one-off, non-credentialed workshop belongs in Events. A workshop-style intensive that awards a certificate belongs in Courses & Programs.
If you are unsure, choose the category that best describes how a member would participate — by attending once, or by enrolling and completing a program.
Use cases vs. articles
These two live side by side in Insights and are easy to mix up:
- A use case describes one workflow end to end — the inputs, the model or tool, how it was validated, and the decision it changed. "How Company X cut screening time with a surrogate model" is a use case.
- An article reasons across workflows — how to think, decide, staff, buy, govern, or measure. "How to evaluate an AI vendor" or "What the FDA draft guidance means for ML teams" is an article.
Quick test: if a reader comes away knowing how one specific thing was done, it's a use case. If they come away with a way to think about several situations, it's an article.
Contributing content
Members can submit content across the site. Every submission is screened automatically — most go live right away, and anything the screen flags is reviewed by the team, usually within 1–2 business days (see How submissions are screened).
- Tutorials — suggest a tutorial from the tutorials page: write your own or link to a useful one elsewhere. Community-submitted tutorials are listed together with Allbio.AI-written ones on the Tutorials page under the Community tab, with a safety disclaimer noting they haven't been tested by Allbio.AI.
- Use cases and articles — anyone can submit; approved items are upvotable by the community.
- Products & Services and jobs — self-serve paid listings (see below).
- Events and courses & programs — free to list only when the entire event or course is free. Trials, donations, memberships, paid certificates, upgrades, add-ons, freemium access, or any other charge require a paid listing. Free listings go through the same automatic screen as everything else.
The Suggest a topic box at the bottom of the tutorials, use cases and articles directories is a member feature: sign in, confirm your email address, and finish your profile (name, role, and company/institution) to use it.
Scope reminder: all submissions must be related to AI in the life sciences / bio industry. Off-topic content will be rejected.
Your submissions
Anything you submit — a tutorial, use case, article, product, course, event, or job — shows up on your private Submission status page in your Account profile.
- Pending — flagged by the automatic screen and waiting for a person to review it. Most items are reviewed within 1–2 business days.
- Approved / Published — live on the site.
- Rejected — didn't meet the guidelines. You'll typically see a short reason.
- Withdraw submission — while an item is pending or rejected you can withdraw it, which removes it from the review queue. Drafts can be deleted outright.
- Expired — a paid term or free-course confirmation period has ended.
If it's been more than 2 business days and your item is still pending, use the Contact & Support form.
How submissions are screened
Every submission — a tutorial, use case, article, event, course, product, job, community post, or comment — passes a quick automatic screen when you submit it.
- Most go live right away. If the screen finds nothing concerning, your submission publishes immediately — no waiting.
- Flagged items get a human review. Anything the screen flags is held for the Allbio.AI team, who usually review within 1–2 business days. You'll get an email either way — no need to resubmit.
- Paid listings are screened after payment clears, and publish as soon as the screen passes.
You can always check where something stands on your Submission status page in your Account profile.
Paid & free listings
Paid listings publish right after payment clears and the automatic screen passes, so you can see what you paid for right away. Genuinely free events and courses are screened the same way and usually go live immediately too.
- Your name stays private. Listings display the company or organizer name — never your personal name — even to other members. See Who can see what.
- Flagged listings. If the screen flags a listing, it stays in review until the team looks at it — usually within 1–2 business days. Listings that violate site policies can be taken down without a refund.
- Durations & pricing. Each listing type offers its own duration and pricing options, published in the Pricing Schedule and shown on the relevant submission page before you pay.
- Changing a listing that is already running. Use Edit on My listings. You can change the wording, images and links; your listing stays up with its current wording until a reviewer approves the changes. What you bought — the placement and the listing period — can't be changed there. You don't need to take a listing down to edit it.
- Refunds. You can ask for a full refund yourself for 15 days after your listing goes live, from My listings. That returns the whole amount and closes the listing. After 15 days a refund is at our discretion and is usually based on the time left. Full terms are in our Refund & Cancellation Policy.
- Taking a listing down. This removes the public page straight away, can't be undone by you, and does not return money on its own. If you want your money back inside the 15 days, use "Take down & request a refund" instead.
- Renewing a listing. A Renew button appears on My listings from 30 days before a paid listing ends, and stays there for 90 days after it ends. Renewing while the listing is still running adds the new days on top of the days you have left — it never restarts the clock and your listing stays up, with no new review. If the listing has already ended, you can update its wording, images and links first, then renew: it is checked once more and goes back up for the full new period. Renewal only sets the length and placement; after 90 days, submit it again as a new listing.
- Expiration reminders. You'll get email reminders before a listing expires. Free courses use the term selected on the form (6 months (180 days) by default) and can be kept renewed for free with the same Renew button and reminder emails as paid listings. Paid event listings keep their full purchased term: after the event ends they move to Recent past, then to the read-only archive when the listing term ends. Free events move to the archive when the event ends.
Current pricing for every paid listing type is published in the Pricing Schedule. Submissions start from the relevant directory: Courses, Products & Services, Events, HIRE (Jobs).
Concierge Staging
Concierge Staging is a done-for-you option for paid listings. Instead of filling in the submission form yourself, you send us the details — a link to your site, a description, images or documents — and our team builds the listing for you. You review a private preview of the finished listing and, if you're happy, purchase it with one click. It never goes public until you pay for it.
- Who it's for. Anyone listing a paid job, product or service, event, or course who would rather not handle the form. You need an Allbio.AI account, because the finished draft is delivered into your account and the conversation happens in your support thread.
- How to request it. Every paid submission form shows a "Request Concierge Staging" option. You'll pick the listing type, your preferred placement (Standard or Sponsored) and term, share a link or text about what you're listing, optionally attach up to four files, and add any notes.
- What happens next. Your request creates a private conversation between you and the team. We'll ask follow-up questions there if we need to. When the draft is ready you get an email and the draft appears under "Prepared for you" on My listings, with a link to a private preview page.
- Reviewing the draft. The preview page shows the directory card and the full hosted page exactly as they will appear — including the case study page for products that have one. Only you can see this page. You can Purchase and publish, Request changes (which posts to your conversation), or choose Edit it myself and finish the listing on the normal form.
- Purchasing. Payment uses the same secure checkout as any other listing, at the same published prices. The listing goes live as soon as payment clears and the automatic screen passes — exactly like a listing you built yourself. A concierge draft can't be published for free: the request only covers paid placements.
- Communication. Everything happens in one conversation in your messages, with an email for each update so you don't miss anything. Reply to the email or in the conversation — both reach the same place.
- Cost of the service. Complimentary Concierge Staging through 31 Dec 2026. Your private preview shows the listing placement price before you choose to publish.
- After it's live. A concierge listing is your listing like any other: edit it from My listings, renew it, or take it down under the same rules described in Paid & free listings.
Email preferences
You control which emails Allbio.AI sends you from Your Account profile (open the Account page from the header):
- Submission status updates — get notified when a submission is approved, rejected, or expires.
- Community reply notifications — get an email when someone replies to your thread or comment.
- Member requests and messages — connection requests, accepted connections, and new message replies.
- Weekly listing digest — a Monday summary of your live listings' performance (on by default).
- Paid-listing expiration reminders — always sent, so you don't miss a lapse.
Toggles default to on unless noted; change them any time.
Listing performance
If you own live listings — jobs, products/services, courses, or events — you can view performance metrics from your account. These are aggregate counts only: rolled-up totals of views, clicks, bookmarks, and community references. They are never tied to individual users, so you can't see who viewed or clicked — and neither can anyone else.
- All live listings included. Free and paid listings appear in your metrics; paid and sponsored listings are highlighted with a badge.
- Benchmarks. Paid listings show how they rank against other live listings in the same category, as "Top X%" — smaller is better. A ranking appears once at least 3 listings are live in that category.
- Weekly summary. Every Monday you get an email summary of your live listings and contributions: totals so far, views from the last 7 days, and a short guide to what each number means. It is on by default; turn it off any time in Email preferences.
Find them on My listings — jobs appear under the HIRE (Jobs) tab there. Aggregate measurement like this is also covered in our Privacy Policy.
Getting help
Try these in order — most questions are answered by the first one:
- Site search. The search bar in the header covers every tutorial, article, use case, product, course, event, job, and thread on the site — including reference IDs like
AR-1042. Keyboard users can press Cmd/Ctrl+K (or / outside text fields) to open search from anywhere. - Contact & Support. For anything that needs a personal reply — billing, a broken page, account access, a listing issue — use the Contact & Support form. The team aims to respond within 1–2 business days.
- Feedback. For feature ideas, general suggestions, or feedback on how the site works, use the Feedback form — it goes to the same team but into a different queue. To tell a vendor or lister something directly, use the private feedback option on their listing page instead.
- Flag. For content that may violate our Acceptable Use Policy, use the Flag action on the item itself.
- Huxley. Huxley is the AI assistant in the bottom-right corner of every page and is there for help and support. Ask how-to questions ("Where do I post a job?", "How do I bookmark something?"), get pointed to this User Guide, open the Contact & Support form, or send feedback. Huxley can also look up site content and check on a submission that hasn't appeared. Be specific, and don't share sensitive info like passwords. The minimize button keeps your chat active; the close (X) button ends and clears it — conversations aren't stored between visits.
Who can see what
Allbio.AI keeps a simple rule: content is public, identity is members-only. Everything you publish is credited to you — there is no anonymous mode — but who can see your name depends on the reader:
- Contributions (use cases, articles, tutorials) — readable by anyone and indexed by search engines. Signed-in members see your real name and a link to your profile; signed-out visitors and search engines see only "An Allbio.AI member."
- Paid listings (jobs, products, courses, events) — public and indexable. They display the company or organizer name, never your personal name.
- Community forum — members-only; not exposed to search engines.
- Comments on editorial and listing pages — members-only; not exposed to search engines.
- Member directory & messages — members-only; not exposed to search engines.
- Profile fields — each field follows the audience setting you choose (public, members-only, or hidden). Fields set to members-only or hidden are never indexed.
- Upvotes, bookmarks, views — shown only as aggregate counts, never tied to you publicly.
Every submission form repeats this in one line above the submit button, so you're never surprised after publishing. The formal wording lives in the Privacy Policy (Section 14).
Community guidelines & policies
Please review our policies — they apply to everything you submit or post:
Comments on pages
You can comment directly on tutorials, articles, use cases, events, and issues of The Signal. Comments live at the bottom of each page, so a question or a bit of hard-won experience stays attached to the thing it's about. On events, attendees, speakers, vendors, and organizers can use the thread for questions and discussion before and after the event.
We don't have comments on products and services, courses, or jobs. Those are listings, and public comment threads on them turn into vendor disputes rather than useful discussion. Instead you can:
Comments are opinions of the people who post them, not advice from Allbio.AI, and should never be treated as medical, clinical, legal, or investment advice. All comments are subject to our Acceptable Use Policy and Terms of Service.