Antibody Exchange: Information extraction of biological antibody donation and a web-portal to find donors and seekers.

ABSTRACT: Bio-molecular reagents like antibodies required in experimental biology are expensive and their effectiveness, among other things, is critical to the success of the experiment. Although such resources are sometimes donated by one investigator to another through personal communication between the two, there is no previous study to our knowledge on the extent of such donations, nor a central platform that directs resource seekers to donors. In this paper, we describe, to our knowledge, a first attempt at building a web-portal titled Antibody Exchange (or more general 'Bio-Resource Exchange') that attempts to bridge this gap between resource seekers and donors in the domain of experimental biology. Users on this portal can request for or donate antibodies, cell-lines and DNA Constructs. This

SUBMITTER: Subramanian S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6258257 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature