Meet Helix.
The AI lab partner that thinks like a scientist.
An AI assistant built for the bench — from experimental design and protocol troubleshooting to literature synthesis and manuscript drafting. Free for researchers and students at organizations and universities.
No credit card. Work or school email required.
Built for how scientists actually work
Generic chatbots don't know an assay from an aliquot. Helix starts from your expertise and meets you there.
Tuned to your bench
Helix learns your role, training, and research focus during sign-up, then calibrates every answer to your depth, so you never have to re-explain who you are.
Grounded in the literature
Ask for mechanisms, comparisons, or a synthesis of recent papers and get answers written for scientists at full depth.
From protocol to manuscript
Draft methods sections, troubleshoot assays, design primers, and reason through experimental design in one place.
Your work stays yours
Organization and school accounts only. Built on the same trust foundation as the rest of the AminoCloud platform.
Up and running in under a minute
Sign in with your work or school account
Helix is free for researchers at organizations and universities. Verify with Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.
Tell us about your science
Three quick questions about your role, training, and what you work on. This is what makes Helix feel like a colleague.
Start the conversation
Open a clean chat workspace tuned to you, with your history, saved threads, and a generous weekly allowance.
Free to start. More when you need it.
Helix is free for every researcher. Upgrade to Pro for a bigger weekly allowance and deeper power when your work demands it.
Standard
Free for every researcher
Free forever with a work or school account
Create your free account- Persona-tuned to your science
- Web search & literature grounding
- Data analysis & code execution
- A generous weekly usage allowance
Connect all your tools, read-only:
Live
Public beta
Pro
When your work demands more
Self-serve upgrade — cancel anytime
Upgrade to ProEverything in Standard, plus:
- 3× the weekly usage allowance
- Deep reasoning (high-effort mode)
- More files per message
Teams & Organizations
Helix built into your lab's platform
Org-wide, single-tenant deployment
Talk to usEverything in Pro, plus AminoCloud's lab platform:
- Inventory & asset management
- Records & documentation
- Compliance Hub
- Electronic Lab Notebook
- Accessioning & test ordering
- Instrument interfacing
- Result validation & reporting
Your next experiment, with a partner who keeps up
Join the researchers using Helix to move faster — for free.
Create your free account