Building a Robust Research Toolkit 

Sharing information about research tools is critical to help the neurofibromatosis (NF) research community discover tools available to enable and support their research. The NF Research Tools Database aims to support the development of a robust research toolkit and lower the barrier of entry to NF research. The database includes information on NF-associated animal models, cell lines, antibodies, and genetic reagents; details on tool characteristics and sourcing; as well as observational and experimental data.

Information available in the database has been generously contributed by the research community, as well as aggregated from publicly-available information across several research resource catalogs. Community contributions are encouraged at both the pre-publication and published stages, and may be annotated to indicate various stages of tool development and characterization. Contributors may provide details on tool availability, including any MTA requirements, instructions, and contact information to acquire a particular research tool.

The database currently supports contributions of information about any animal models, cell lines, antibodies, genetic reagents, and biobanks that are related to the study of neurofibromatosis type 1, neurofibromatosis type 2, or schwannomatosis. If you are interested in contributing a research tool to the database, please visit How to Contribute a Tool. 

Please see below for information on how to cite the database, as well as information on upstream resources and repositories.

Citing the NF Research Tools Database

Information in this database has also been curated by many data contributors, but has also been collected by other data repositories.

To cite the NF Research Tools Database, please use the following citation:

Clayton, Ashley, et al. “Centralizing neurofibromatosis experimental tool knowledge with the NF Research Tools Database.” Database (in press). https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baac045

Acknowledgements

When a resource in our database is listed with an RRID, that indicates that some or all of the metadata was obtained from a Research Resource Identifier Initiative member. Licenses and references are described below; please consider citing these upstream repositories as necessary.

Research Resource Identification Initiative

Citation:

Bandrowski A, Brush M, Grethe JS, Haendel MA, Kennedy DN, Hill S, Hof PR, Martone ME, Pols M, Tan SC, Washington N, Zudilova-Seinstra E, Vasilevsky N; RINL Resource Identification Initiative. The Resource Identification Initiative: a cultural shift in publishing. Brain Behav. 2015 Dec 8;6(1):e00417. doi: 10.1002/brb3.417. PMID: 27110440; PMCID: PMC4834942.

AntibodyRegistry.org

Website: http://AntibodyRegistry.org

License: CC-BY-3.0

Citation:

Bandrowski,A. et al. (2011) An antibody registry for biological sciences. In, Front. Neuroinform. Conference Abstract: 4th INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics. doi: 10.3389/conf. fninf.

Cellosaurus

Website: https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/

License: CC-BY-4.0

Citation:

Bairoch A. The Cellosaurus, a cell line knowledge resource. J. Biomol. Tech. 29:25-38(2018). DOI: 10.7171/jbt.18-2902-002; PMID: 29805321; PMCID: PMC5945021

Mouse Genome Informatics

Website: http://www.informatics.jax.org/

License: CC-BY-4.0

Citation:

Bult CJ, Blake JA, Smith CL, Kadin JA, Richardson JE, the Mouse Genome Database Group. 2019. Mouse Genome Database (MGD) 2019. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 Jan. 8;47 (D1): D801–D806.

Mammalian Phenotype Ontology

Website: http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/other/Ontology_Licenses.shtml

License: CC-BY-4.0

Addgene

Website: http://Addgene.org

License: unknown

Citation:

Kamens J. (2015). The Addgene repository: an international nonprofit plasmid and data resource. Nucleic acids research, 43(Database issue), D1152–D1157. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gku893