Bikos Labs

What Bikos Labs is

Bikos Labs is a web-based, three-dimensional teaching laboratory for life sciences. Students can perform hypothesis-driven experiments online, interact in real time with peers and instructors, and encounter realistic consequences when experiments go wrong. The virtual lab combines visual models such as graphic animations with physical models represented mathematically. Instructors can customize experiments around specific learning objectives. The platform is intended to increase exposure to experimental learning, develop problem-solving and scientific skills, and prepare students for biomedical and life-sciences work. It is designed to complement physical laboratories or provide an alternative when building or maintaining one is prohibitively costly. Cloud streaming is intended to run on readily available, low-cost devices such as Chromebooks, without specialized equipment such as high-performance graphics cards or head-mounted goggles. Bikos Labs is paid, with pricing on request, and the site invites visitors to request a demo or product information.