Antibody RRID? What is this?

All antibodies used in your study should be listed with the company name, catalog number and RRID. It is also a good practice to add the lot number, just in case there is lot variability.

RRIDs are unique identifiers for antibodies and other resources that largely overlap with the resource types that have been labeled as particularly problematic by the National Institutes of Health in recent changes to their grant review criteria, please see "key biological resources", e.g., antibodies, cell lines and transgenic organisms. The RRID initiative is led by community repositories that provide persistent, unique identifiers to their resources, such as transgenic mice, salamanders, antibodies, cell lines, plasmids and software projects such as statistical software. RRIDs are described on the rrids.org website and in a primer by Bandrowski and Martone in 2016.

RRIDs are unique numbers that resolve to a particular database record, for example, the RRID:AB_90755 resolves to this record for an antibody: https://antibodyregistry.org/AB_90755.

Potential problems with SciScore antibody recognition

My antibodies are all recognized and suggested accurately, why don’t I get “full credit”?

Please add the RRID for each antibody into your paper, not just the catalog number. Company catalogs are not persistent, they may sell their products to another company or may discontinue your reagent. Please make sure that the antibody RRID record is accurate and matches your antibody records.

My antibody has an RRID but the other information about the same antibody is not recognized with the RRID?

Please try to keep the company name, catalog number and the RRID for each antibody relatively close together. Sometimes if the information is scattered in the sentence SciScore gets confused and marks a second antibody. In most cases, if this happens one time out of many antibodies this will not reduce the score noticeably (fractional points are rounded to the nearest whole number).

My antibody sentence describes a lot of antibodies but SciScore only recognized a couple. What should I do?

Please add the RRID for each antibody into your paper, not just the catalog number. SciScore sometimes gets confused about which antibody is associated with which information. The best way to get SciScore and your readers to be less confused is to add each antibody with all of its information lumped together. Sentences that discuss antibodies from one company later those from another company tend to be more difficult to parse and also to remember to add all pertinent information for each reagent.

Including a STAR reagent table in your manuscript is a good way to clearly identify all reagents used in your study. SciScore reads STAR tables so don’t forget to submit the table with your methods section.