The Journal of Comparative Neurology Reaches 100 RRID papers!

Have you ever wondered how can you find validated antibodies?
Have you ever wondered where most of our literature mentions come from in the antibodyregistry.org?

Well, wonder no more. Neuroscience Information Framework and more specifically the antibodyregistry.org has been working closely with the Journal of Comparative Neurology (Bandrowski et al., JCN 2013) to enhance the already high standards of antibody identification of JCN papers.

In the Research Resource Identification initiative we have just crossed a major mile stone, the 100 papers in a single journal and the journal that takes this is not surprisingly JCN. Most of these papers identify the antibodies they contain with unique identifiers in the following format RRID:AB_2298772, which can be searched for in google scholar or PubMed.

The growing number of papers and the growing number of journals (42 and counting) suggests that this standard fills a need in the community.

If you wish to join the initiative as an author, just visit the SciCruch resource portal and search for your antibodies, a convenient "cite this" button will give you the text to use in your methods section.
If you wish to join as an editor, we have draft letters to authors and author guidelines that you can use at Force11.