Begin with the question you are trying to answer
If you want to understand one compound, begin in the Compound Library. If you are comparing two records, use Compare. If you are trying to see overlap or gaps across several compounds, use Stack Explorer.
If a term, study type, laboratory result, or interpretation feels unclear, Learn is the right place. The goal is not to force everyone through a course; the right guide should appear when the question becomes relevant.
Keep the information layers separate
Published evidence, Relay’s explanation, and Community Intelligence are displayed as distinct layers. They may inform the same question, but they do not become the same kind of evidence when shown together.
A community pattern can suggest a question worth studying. It cannot establish cause and effect. A plausible mechanism can explain why an effect might occur. It cannot establish a human outcome without direct testing.
Use the labels before using the conclusion
Look for the evidence type, population, measured outcome, source, limitations, unknowns, and review date. These details explain how far a conclusion can reasonably travel.
If Relay says evidence has not established something, that is not the same as saying the effect is impossible. It means the available record cannot support the stronger conclusion.
Keep personal organization private and separate
My Relay and Protocol tools help users organize their own records, calculations, saved comparisons, and research context. Organization and arithmetic do not become recommendations simply because the tools make them easier to manage.
Community contributions require a separate, explicit choice. Private workspace information is not silently turned into public evidence.
Key terms
- Published evidence
- Source-linked research findings presented with their design and limitations.
- Relay interpretation
- A plain-language explanation of what the evidence supports and where it stops.
- Community Intelligence
- Structured self-reported experiences that may reveal patterns but remain anecdotal.
- Unknown
- A question the available evidence has not answered adequately.
Relay diagram
One question, clearly separated layers
What this can—and cannot—tell us
What it can tell us
- What kinds of evidence support a claim and what limitations remain.
- How compound records differ without declaring a universal winner.
- Where community experience aligns, conflicts, or remains too sparse to interpret.
- Which questions remain unanswered.
What it cannot establish alone
- What a specific person should take or do.
- That a comparison is a recommendation.
- That a saved protocol has been medically reviewed.
- That Relay’s current record is complete or permanently final.
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Why Compare does not choose a winner
Two compounds may differ in target, population, outcome, study quality, approval status, and uncertainty. A single better label would erase the reason the difference exists.
Compare organizes dimensions side by side so users can understand the record without turning indirect evidence into a head-to-head conclusion.
Why Relay is correctable
Every guide and compound record should show sources and a review date. Material corrections should be recorded rather than silently hidden.
A trustworthy research library is not one that claims it never changes. It is one that makes its reasoning visible and updates when better evidence warrants it.
The takeaway
If you only remember one thing from this guide:
Use Relay to understand the evidence and its limits—not to outsource a personal decision.
Sources and support4 sources
- Compound Library Peptide Relay
The platform record for individual compounds, with evidence and uncertainty kept visible.
- Compare Peptide Relay
The side-by-side research view that avoids unsupported winner language.
- Stack Explorer Peptide Relay
The multi-compound research view for overlap, gaps, combination evidence, and unknowns.
- Community Intelligence Peptide Relay
The separately labeled layer for structured self-reported experience.