CiteAb: a searchable antibody database that ranks antibodies by the number of times they have been cited

BMC Cell Biology

Database

Katrina James¹  Dave H Kelly²  Tulay Gulsen³  Christopher J Caunt³  Chris Bryant³  Ben Sharpe³  Paul Whitley³  Gail Doughton³  Joe R Fenn⁴  Andrew D Chalmers⁴  Matthew A Helsby⁴  Paul M Leader⁵  Adam D Pope⁵ 

[1] CiteAb, Carpenter House, BA1 1UD, Bath, UK;CiteAb, Carpenter House, BA1 1UD, Bath, UK;Storm Consultancy, 14 New Bond Street, BA1 1BE, Bath, UK;Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, BA2 7AY, Bath, UK;Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, BA2 7AY, Bath, UK;CiteAb, Carpenter House, BA1 1UD, Bath, UK;Storm Consultancy, 14 New Bond Street, BA1 1BE, Bath, UK;

关键词: Antibodies;    Monoclonal;    Polyclonal;    Western blotting;    Flow cytometry;    Immunohistochemistry;    ChIP host species;    Species reactivity;    Citations;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2121-15-6

 received in 2013-10-08, accepted in 2014-01-29,  发布年份 2014

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundResearch antibodies are used by thousands of scientists working in diverse disciplines, but it is common to hear concerns about antibody quality. This means that researchers need to carefully choose the antibodies they use to avoid wasting time and money. A well accepted way of selecting a research antibody is to identify one which has been used previously, where the associated data has been peer-reviewed and the results published.DescriptionCiteAb is a searchable database which ranks antibodies by the number of times they have been cited. This allows researchers to easily find antibodies that have been used in peer-reviewed publications and the accompanying citations are listed, so users can check the data contained within the publications. This makes CiteAb a useful resource for identifying antibodies for experiments and also for finding information to demonstrate antibody validation. The database currently contains 1,400,000 antibodies which are from 90 suppliers, including 87 commercial companies and 3 academic resources. Associated with these antibodies are 140,000 publications which provide 306,000 antibody citations. In addition to searching, users can also browse through the antibodies and add their own publications to the CiteAb database.ConclusionsCiteAb provides a new way for researchers to find research antibodies that have been used successfully in peer-reviewed publications. It aims to assist these researchers and will hopefully help promote progress in many areas of life science research.

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