This is an update of the current status of the Antibodypedia initiative.
Antibodypedia Newsletter
Starting June 1st Antibodypedia returned to its academic roots after two-year collaboration with Nature. The whole project is now headed from Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden. Since June 2013, the number of antibodies, images, and references in the database has steadily increased.
Antibodies and the human genome
In early June Antibodypedia listed 650,000 antibodies, since then 530,000 additional antibodies have been listed. In mid-October last year, the database passed one million antibodies and now catalogues 1,180,000 antibodies that are available to our users. This amazing growth means that Antibodypedia now list antibodies against a total of 19,093 genes (562 additional genes as compared to June 2013), thus covering 92% of the human genome.
Images and references
To improve the ability to find the right antibody, Antibodypedia shows primary data publicly in the database. In June there was 380,000 images publicly available, now more than 110,000 additional images have been uploaded, and close to half a million (490,000) images are now available in the database.
Another way to assess an antibody’s usefulness in an application is to look for citations where the antibody is used. Almost 60,000 new references have been added since June last year and now there are approximately 115,000 references in the database.
This amazing growth has been made possible by new and existing companies on the antibody market. A total of eight new companies have joined Antibodypedia in the past half year, and to date 47 companies have their antibodies listed in Antibodypedia. The complete list can be accessed from the first page on Antibodypedia.
Recent Changes
Antibodypedia has added the application Reversed Phase Protein Array (RPPA). We encourage all antibody providers to send us data on RPPA. For users to access the RPPA-data use the Show Additional Columns in the right top corner of the Antibody Listing-page.
In addition a new feature has been added to the Antibody Template called “Epitope”. Here providers may submit information regarding where the antibody binds its target. This information is displayed on the Antibody Data-page.
We are happy to hear your suggestions for applications and features that would be of value to you. Please contact us on contact@antibodypedia.com or use our Facebook-page to send us your feedback.
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Antibody Market Report
Antibodypedia has together with Pivotal Scientific created an Antibody Market Report. Please access the report form here: Antibody Market Report.
And finally, I want to thank you for your interest in Antibodypedia. I hope we will have the opportunity to communicate directly to each other during 2014.
Please send us your feedback: What's frustrating? What changes would you like to see? And what are we getting right? Contact us on contact@antibodypedia.com if you have any questions or thoughts on how we can improve our service to you.
Yours sincerely,
Tove Alm
Manager Antibodypedia