Introduction

Antibodies are used more or less frequently in basic research in life sciences and medicine. Antibodies have different application scenarios, many markers, and there are often multiple antibodies available on the market for the same marker, so we need to select the one we need from millions of antibodies, and thus citeab appeared.

CiteAb (www.citeab.com) was founded in 2014 under the leadership of Dr. Andrew Chalmers of the University of Bath in the U.K. It is claimed to be the world's largest antibody search engine, which contains nearly five million antibodies from 204 antibody suppliers and aggregates more than two million antibody citations, and which continues to be updated with the The site is constantly being updated with the latest data. Entering a keyword (e.g., CD3) and clicking search will bring up all eligible antibodies. The platform currently includes 6.99 million antibodies from 335 suppliers, with more than 4.24 million citations. A special feature of the site is that the search results are sorted according to the number of times the antibody has been cited in the literature, and in general, the more cited the product, the more quality is often guaranteed. citeab has a simple interface, and not only can you search for antibodies, but you can also search for biochemical reagents, experimental methods, reagent kits and proteins.

Register for an account

Register at https://www.citeab.com/accounts/sign_up Here we need to use the university edu email address, only after registering can we use citeab's search engine service.

In order to register convenient this tutorial to the United States edu mailbox. As shown in the picture below:

Create your free CiteAb account today Create your free CiteAb account today.

Register for an account to maximize the benefits of our reagent search engineRegister for an account to maximize the benefits of our reagent search engine

Please use your institutional email address, enter your institutional email address, usually an academic email address, the university edu email address is an academic email address.

Country Country select the country where the institution is located, Institution or organisation name Institution or organization name, Usage Type select Academia Academic.

Account Verification

After we fill out the information and click OK, the edu email will receive an email confirmation email confirming the CiteAb accountConfirmation instructions

"You can confirm your account email and start using CiteAb by following the link below:" You can confirm your account email and start using CiteAb by following the link below.

Thank you for signing up to CiteAb, Please check your inbox Thank you for signing up to CiteAb, Please check your inbox

We need to confirm your email address. A message with a confirmation link has been sent to czane13sb@stu.xx.edu

We need to confirm your email address. A message with a confirmation link has been sent to czane13sb@stu.xx.edu

Please click the link to activate your account and gain full access to CiteAb.

Your link should arrive within a few minutes. If you haven't received an email please check your spam or request that we resend your confirmation link Your link should arrive within a few minutes. If you haven't received an email please check your spam or request that we resend your confirmation link

Successful registration

After we clicked on authentication, we were prompted: Your email address has been successfully confirmed.

Usage

Let's take the commonly used internal reference β-actin as an example for CiteAb search. Input the name of the query antibody "β-actin" in the search field, select "Antibodies" in the catalog at the back of the search field, and click "Search Click "Search" to get the following results.

As you can see, the page simply records several basic information about the antibody, including the item number and antibody company in red font as well as the antibody host type (source), applicability, species reactivity, and clone type (monoclonal or polyclonal), next to the number of times the antibody has been cited, and the search results are arranged according to the number of times the antibody has been cited, from high to low, with the higher the number of times the antibody has been cited indicating that the antibody is relatively more reliable.

In addition, the left column can be classified according to the antibody's primary or secondary antibody type, clone type, recombinant or not, host type, validation method, experimental application type, species reactivity, supplier and other catalog categories to find the right antibody for your experiment quickly.

We randomly clicked on an antibody to go in and there was more detailed information added, as well as most importantly, a list of literature applying the antibody, which can be said to be very reliable.