This is a presentation explaining the Antibody Registry

1. The Antibody Registry and
Research Resource Identifiers
(RRIDS)
improve trust in science

2. PROBLEM

3. CAN YOU FIND THIS ANTIBODY?

4. HOW IT CAN IMPACT YOUR COMPANY?
Can’t you find the antibody? Ask the help center!
Poor antibody identification can lead to increased support calls
and emails from future customers.
No validation for your company!
Your company cannot use this paper to validate your
antibodies because it does not lead to a specific product.
Less trust
Antibodies that cannot be verified can make an entire study
untrustworthy
Compliance
Top journals require RRIDs from authors for publication

5. HOW DOES IT IMPACT SCIENCE?
“More than 70% of researchers have
tried and failed to reproduce
another scientist's experiments.”
This figure is part of Nature's survey
of 1,576 researchers who took a brief
online questionnaire on
reproducibility in research.
Reproducibility crisis: Blame it on the Antibodies. Nature (2015)
1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility. Nature 533, 452–454 (2016)

6. SOLUTION

7. RRID TO THE RESCUE
Links to reagents are added by journals
2 clicks to your website!
Easy for customers to find the antibody they
need.
Build trust with your future customers!

8. HELPING SCIENCE
All NIH grants (2017+) require “Reagent authentication” for antibodies and other
key biological resources.
Help NIH funded researchers to authenticate your products by ensuring that
each antibody has an RRID.

9. HOW DOES AN AUTHOR FIND AN RRID?
Author copies
“Proper
citation” text
into
manuscript
Author
searches for an
antibody on the
RRID Portal
Journals direct
author to the
RRID search
portal
Paper is
published with
RRIDs in it!

10. IT IS ALREADY HAPPENING
Be part of the solution!

11. SCIENCE REQUIRES RRIDS
Editor-in-Chief of Science asks all authors to
fill in & include the
MDAR Reproducibility Checklist which
includes providing RRIDs

12. OVER 1,500 JOURNALS ASK FOR RRID

13. Overall growth in antibody identification
22%
36%
16%
32%
15%
90%
40%
97%
14
%
43%
MANY JOURNALS ENFORCE
ANTIBODY IDENTIFICATION
POLICIES
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00104-6 Menke et al., iScience, 2020
1.6 mil paper processed

14. ONBOARDING PROCESS

15. Antibody Registry
Your company
At Onset of
Membership
● Joint work on a blog / social media
● Company logo will be published on
the antibodyregistry.org website
Curation
(1-3 weeks)
● ABR staff curate your data and
provide RRIDs
● RRIDs can be added
to your company’s
website
Helps customers!
Publication ● RRID records are linked to your
company
● Data released to RRID portal, dknet,
neuinfo, scicrunch, resolvers
● Curators detect RRIDs in the
literature
● Provides antibody
data catalog as
.csv file

16. YOUR BENEFITS

17. WEEKLY PERKS
● Weekly update of antibody data to include new citations
● Weekly @RobotRRID tweets @your company if a paper containing
one of your antibodies is published
YEARLY PERKS
● Annual reports (& csv file) of your antibody RRIDs used in scientific
literacy
● Direct links to your individual product from the antibodyregistry.org

18. WHEN WE FIND RRID OUR ROBOT TWEETS ABOUT IT!
@RobotRrid tweets about the
paper, increasing the Altmetric
Attention Score which increases
product visibility

19. REPORT

20. CONTACT US
abr-help@scicrunch.org