Plasmid RRID? What is this?

Please add the full citation, including the RRID for each plasmid into your methods section.

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:Addgene_21984 resolves to this record at Addgene: https://www.addgene.org/21984/

Potential problems with SciScore antibody recognition

My plasmid sentence is missing a lot of plasmids that I used but SciScore only recognized a couple. What should I do?

Please add the RRID for each plasmid into your paper, not just the catalog number and please separate each plasmid with the full information for each reagent.

SciScore gets confused if plasmids are implicit or listed one after the other (e.g., for one experiment we used plasmids 234, 432 and 555 while for the other we used plasmids 1234-1238). One remedy may be to separate the sentence about your reagents clearly listing each plasmid with name RRID citation, then listing the next plasmid.

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.