Event Abstract Back to Event An antibody registry for biological sciences Anita Bandrowski1*, Vadim Astakhov1, Jeff Grethe1 and Maryann Martone1 1 University of California, San Diego, United States The neuroscience information framework (NIF) as part of its mission to make scientific resources more ‘discoverable’ undertook the aggregation of antibody data under one common data model, and one ontological framework, which we called the antibody registry. We have negotiated agreements for more than 890,000 commercially available antibodies including a unique identifier for each antibody that, we propose, should be included in any new publication of antibodies. The information includes the vendor, catalog number, clone id, antibody target, target subregion (where available), target modification, target species, raised in species, target Entrez id, clonality, name and comments. The data model was aligned with the model created by the Eagle-I project and the IEDB project (Immune Epitope Database), both tasked with cataloging non-commercial antibodies. In the near future, the data from both projects should be represented within the antibody registry. In addition we have created a web-accessible graphical interface, written in JAVA, which would serve as a search and registration tool for any scientist to search for and add antibodies. The system is deployed at: http://antibodyregistry.org To test our the extent of our holdings, we compared antibodies listed in the Journal of Comparative Neurology (JCN) database, and we found that the registry listed full information for 74% of the ~5000 antibodies in the JCN database and the missing subset is being added to the registry. To highlight antibodies heavily used by researchers we have created a “verified” tag for antibodies generated and rigorously tested by large projects such as NeuroMab at UC Davis, and added over 4000 JCN publications associated with individual antibodies. The data are now in use by the NIF search engine as well as the SWAN annotator service. With this extensive database, covering most commercial antibodies, and easy to use registration tools scientists should be able to disambiguate antibodies within papers, and tag the literature more robustly so that any text mining software, or researcher can find it. Figure 1 Keywords: General neuroinformatics Conference: 4th INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics, Boston, United States, 4 Sep - 6 Sep, 2011. Presentation Type: Demo Presentation Topic: General neuroinformatics Citation: Bandrowski A, Astakhov V, Grethe J and Martone M (2011). An antibody registry for biological sciences. Front. Neuroinform. Conference Abstract: 4th INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics. doi: 10.3389/conf.fninf.2011.08.00067 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 17 Oct 2011; Published Online: 19 Oct 2011. * Correspondence: Dr. Anita Bandrowski, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, United States, abandrowski@ucsd.edu Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Anita Bandrowski Vadim Astakhov Jeff Grethe Maryann Martone Google Anita Bandrowski Vadim Astakhov Jeff Grethe Maryann Martone Google Scholar Anita Bandrowski Vadim Astakhov Jeff Grethe Maryann Martone PubMed Anita Bandrowski Vadim Astakhov Jeff Grethe Maryann Martone Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.