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for researchers and a content management system for data and databases. It is intended to provide a common source of data to the research community and the data about Research Resource Identifiers ( RRIDs), which can be used in scientific publications. In some respect, it is for science and scholarly publishing, similar to what Wikidata is for Wikimedia Foundation projects. Hosted by the University of California, San Diego, SciCrunch was also designed to help communities of researchers create their own portals to provide access to resources, databases and tools of relevance to their research areas

Research Resource Identifiers

Research Resource Identifiers (RRID) are supposed to be resource identifiers which are globally unique and persistent. They were introduced and are promoted by the Resource Identification Initiative. Resources in this context are research resources like reagents, tools or materials. An example for such a resource would be a

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used in an experiment or software tool used in a computational analysis. The Resource Identification Portal (https://scicrunch.org/resources) was created in support of this initiative and is a central service where these identifiers can be searched and created. These identifiers should be fully searchable by data mining unlike supplementary files, and can be updated to new versions as basic methodology changes over time.

Format for RRID citations

The recommendation for citing research resources is shown below for key biological resources: * Antibody: Millipore Cat# MAB377 (Lot) RRID:AB_2298772 * Model organism: NXR Cat# 1.0049, RRID:NXR_1.0049 * Cell line: Coriell Cat# GM03745, RRID:CVCL_1H60 * Tools: CellProfiler Image Analysis Software, (version or date) RRID:SCR_007358 The Resource Identification Portal lists existing RRIDs and instructions for creating a new one if an RRID matching the resource does not already exist.

Institutions and publishers recommending use of RRIDs

A number of publishing houses, initiatives, and

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s encourage using SciCrunch‘s RRIDs: Common Citation Format Article in Nature, Cell Press, eLife, FORCE11,

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, GigaScience, MIRIAM Registry, NIH, '' PLOS Biology'' and ''

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''.

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full list of institutes and publishers

RRID Resolver

Know More About SciCrunch and RRIDs: An Interview with Dr. Anita Bandrowski
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Research Resource Identifiers

Format for RRID citations

Institutions and publishers recommending use of RRIDs

See also

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