Organism RRID? What is this?

Please check here for latest URLs for data submission (https://scicrunch.org/resources/about/guidelines#organism) Organisms obtained from stock centers should be listed with their stock center generated or approved RRIDs. We list the authorities for each organism below, there are also stock centers that provide RRIDs directly. Please consult the latest information at the RRID portal for organisms.

  • Mice, authority: Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI)

  • Rats, authority: Rat Genome Database (RGD)

  • Worm, authority: Wormbase

  • Fly, authority: Flybase

  • Zebrafish, authority: Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN)

  • Xiphophorus, authority: XGSC

  • Frog (Xenopus), authority: Xenbase

  • Salamander (Ambystoma), authority: AGSC

  • Pig, authority: NSRRC

  • Tetrahymena, authority: Tetrahymena Stock Center

  • Please note, each authority may have one or more associated stock centers. Please check with the RRID portal to find the right organism.

RRIDs are unique identifiers for organisms 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:MMRRC_036118-UNC resolves to this record at MMRRC mouse repository:

https://www.mmrrc.org/catalog/sds.php?mmrrc_id=36118

Potential problems with SciScore recognition

SciScore does not recognize any of my organisms. What should I do?

Please add the RRID for each organism that can be identified with an RRID into your paper and please separate each organism with the full information for each.

My animal subject is wild caught. What should I do?

For wild caught animals please use the NCBITaxon ID for the species. RRIDs are typically used for common laboratory species, especially transgenics available from repositories such as Jackson Labs or Bloomingron Drosophila Stock Center. Many of these repositories have RRIDs on their own websites, but they work with their authority database curators and the RRID project to ensure that the data about each animal is accurate and can be easily tracked in the scientific literature.

My mouse has been modified in my lab so it is not the same as the mouse that was bought from the MMRRC repository. What should I do?

While not all organisms have a model organism community database, your friendly neighborhood model organism database is usually the nomenclature authority for your animals. For mice please reach out to Mouse Genome Informatics database, the expert curators there will help you make sure that the nomenclature you used in your manuscript is accurate and they can provide an RRID specific for your mouse. https://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/submissions/amsp_submission.cgi

Including a STAR 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.