Friday, March 23, 2018

BenchSci, an "antibody search platform"



BenchSci, a relatively new site (launched July 2017), indexes antibody use in scientific journals, including things like the techniques and tissues involved. It is free, though an institutional email is necessary to sign up for an account; they would like for it to remain free to all academic members. BenchSci is based out of Toronto.

BenchSci is still working with publishers, including Cell Press, to index more content. However, it currently includes SpringerNature, and Wiley, among others, and include many Open Access publications. 

The following blurb is from BenchSci:

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BenchSci is a free online platform designed to help scientists find antibodies from publications. Their proprietary machine-learning algorithm was trained by PhD-level scientists to identify and understand the usage of commercial antibodies in the research literature.

When searching for a specific protein target, BenchSci curates published data in the form of figures to simplify the literature search process. The figures can then be filtered by specific experimental contexts cited in the paper such as techniques, tissue, cell lines, and more, to help users pinpoint antibodies that have been published under experimental conditions matching their study interest.

For more information about BenchSci, please refer to this article: https://blog.benchsci.com/7-features-to-find-antibodies

To learn how to navigate BenchSci, please watch this short video: https://youtu.be/EFaDwTtqlv4

For further inquiries or feedback, contact Maurice Shen, PhD, the Head of Academic Relations at BenchSci, at maurice@benchsci.com

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