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Specimen Atlas of Research Peptides82 plates · MIT
PeptidesDBan atlas

Governance · Disclosure

Independence

Independence you can verify beats independence you are asked to believe.

§ 01 · Who owns thisBuilt and funded by a peptide seller.

PeptidesDB is built and funded by the founder of CertaPeptides, a company that sells research peptides. We are stating that in the first sentence on purpose. The peptide market runs on “trust me” — so we built the thing that lets you verify instead, including verifying us.

A conflict of interest that is hidden is a liability. A conflict of interest that is disclosed, firewalled, and independently checkable is something no anonymous vendor blog will ever offer you. That is the whole design of this atlas.

§ 02 · The firewallWhat the seller does not get.

  • No editorial input. CertaPeptides does not choose which peptides appear, what the plates say, how evidence is rated, or which citations are used.
  • No preferential coverage. Compounds CertaPeptides sells are held to the same evidence bar as everything else. There is no “house favourite” tier.
  • No selling inside the atlas. A build-time gate (audit-editorial.ts) hard-blocks links to certapeptides.com and any “buy” language from appearing inside plate content. The firewall is not a promise — it fails the build.
  • Symmetric verification. When lab-result provenance ships, CertaPeptides’ own batches are verified by the identical rules, and we publish that they are.

§ 03 · How to verify usDon’t trust the disclosure. Check it.

Every plate is a YAML file in a public, MIT-licensed repository. Every change ships as a pull request you can read. Every claim carries a citation ID, or it is marked uncited.

The citation audit that checks every reference against live PubMed is in that repo (audit-citations.ts). You can clone it and re-run it yourself — the reputation of “every claim was checked” is earned by being reproducible, not by being asserted. Read the methodology for how that works, and the corrections log for every fix we have made and why.

The links from CertaPeptides product pages back to this atlas are marked rel="sponsored nofollow" and labelled “same owner.” We pass ourselves zero search authority and we say so on the page.

§ 04 · Where this is goingToward an owner that is not a vendor.

The committed direction is to move the trademark and domain into a neutral, non-profit vehicle that licenses the dataset to every vendor — including CertaPeptides — on equal terms. The vendor stops owning the authority and holds a licence like anyone else. Announcing that direction early is itself a commitment; see the funding page for the revenue model that has to stand up first.