The Research Resource Identification Initiative provides RRIDs to 4 main classes of resources: Antibodies, Cell Lines, Model Organisms, and Databases / Software tools.: Antibodies, Model Organisms, and Databases / Software tools. The initiative works with participating journals to intercept manuscripts in the publication process that use these resources, and allows publication authors to incorporate RRIDs within the methods sections. It also provides resolver services that access curated data from 10 data sources: the antibody registry (a curated catalog of antibodies), the SciCrunch registry (a curated catalog of software tools and databases), and model organism nomenclature authority databases (MGI, FlyBase, WormBase, RGD), as well as various stock centers. These RRIDs are aggregated and can be searched through SciCrunch.

Prefix

rrid

Keywords

annotation centrally registered identifier chemistry citation data retrieval knowledge and information systems life science resource metadata

Links

Homepage

Contact

Anita Bandrowski   0000-0002-5497-0243   bandrow

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Research Resource Identification should match this regular expression:
^[a-zA-Z]+.+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

AB_262044   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Research Resource Identification should match this regular expression:
^rrid:[a-zA-Z]+.+$

Example CURIE

rrid:AB_262044

MIRIAM Namespace Embedded in LUI

The legacy MIRIAM standard for generating CURIEs with this resource annotates the namespaceEmbeddedInLUI as true. This means that you may see local unique identifiers that include a redundant prefix and delimiter (also known as a banana) and therefore look like a CURIE. For Research Resource Identification, the banana looks like RRID:. Therefore, you may see local unique identifiers for this resource that look like RRID:AB_262044 (instead of the canonical form AB_262044) and CURIEs for this resource that look like rrid:RRID:AB_262044 (instead of the canonical form rrid:AB_262044). The Bioregistry will automatically strip off the banana when standardizing local unique identifiers and CURIEs.

Publications

• 2023 The Antibody Registry: ten years of registering antibodies
• 2022 A decade of GigaScience: What can be learned from half a million RRIDs in the scientific literature?
• 2021 Antibody Watch: Text mining antibody specificity from the literature
• 2018 Improving transparency and scientific rigor in academic publishing
• 2019 Incidences of problematic cell lines are lower in papers that use RRIDs to identify cell lines
• 2016 A proposal for validation of antibodies
• 2016 RRIDs: A Simple Step toward Improving Reproducibility through Rigor and Transparency of Experimental Methods
• 2016 The Resource Identification Initiative: A Cultural Shift in Publishing
• 2015 The Resource Identification Initiative: A cultural shift in publishing
• 2013 On the reproducibility of science: unique identification of research resources in the biomedical literature

Contributors

• contributor Anita Bandrowski   0000-0002-5497-0243   bandrow

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 4 mappings to external registries for this resource with 2 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier AB_262044 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Research Resource Identification. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.