🧬 BioAlgoria

BioAlgoria is shared with the students of one course, for that course. By signing in, you accept these terms. They are short; please read them.

1. Who may use BioAlgoria

Only students who received access from the lecturer may use BioAlgoria. Your sign-in is personal: do not let anyone else use it, and do not sign in for someone else. The practice log and problem reports are recorded under your student ID, so a shared sign-in also makes them wrong.

2. Keep your access to yourself

Do not share the address of BioAlgoria, your sign-in, or the class code with anyone, anywhere: not on social media, in group chats, on forums, or with students outside the course. Someone who should have access gets it from the lecturer.

3. Only for the purpose it was shared for

The lecturer shares BioAlgoria for studying this course. Any other use is not permitted, such as teaching another course with it, building on it for a project, research or a publication, or any commercial use, unless the lecturer has agreed to it in writing beforehand.

4. Copyright

© 2026 Prof. dr. Kris Laukens. All rights reserved. This covers the labs, their texts, questions, examples, figures and design, and the software itself.

You may use BioAlgoria and take notes for your own study. You may not:

• copy, distribute, publish or sell any part of it;
• upload its content, including questions, screenshots or recordings, to another website or service, such as a study-sharing site, a file-sharing service or a public repository;
• put its content, including questions, texts, screenshots or code, into an AI tool such as a chatbot or an AI assistant, whether to have it answered, summarised, explained or reproduced;
• make a copy or adaptation of the app or of a lab available to others.

5. Using the app fairly

• Do not try to open chapters that are not open yet by other means than the app itself, for example with the browser’s developer tools.
• Do not download or harvest the app’s content with scripts or other automated tools.
• Do not test or probe the security of the server. If you come across a security problem by chance, tell the lecturer and do not use it.

6. No guarantees

BioAlgoria is a teaching aid, provided as it is. It can contain errors, may be temporarily unavailable, and may change or be withdrawn at any time. What counts as course material is decided by the handbook and the lecturer, not by this app; no rights can be derived from what a lab shows or says.

7. Personal data

BioAlgoria keeps as little about you as it can. Your progress stays in your own browser. When the course server keeps a practice log, it records under your student ID which labs you opened and completed, the error message when a lab crashes, and the problem reports you send yourself, with the version of BioAlgoria, your browser and the width of your window.

This is used only to follow how the course is practised and to fix problems. It is seen only by the lecturer, does not count towards your grade, and is deleted at the end of the academic year. Questions about your data, or a request to see or remove it, go to the lecturer.

8. Work by others

The methods, substitution matrices and reference data in the labs come from the scientific literature and public databases, and remain the work of their authors. BioAlgoria is built on open-source software, which is used under its own licences.

9. End of access, and breaches

Access is given for the duration of the course and may end with the academic year. A student who does not respect these terms may lose access, and a breach may be dealt with under the university’s education and examination regulations.

10. Changes

These terms may change; the version in the app applies. Last updated 6 October 2026.