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RRIDs are associated with a lower reported use of problematic cell lines in the biomedical literature
- 05:38pm January 29, 2019
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- News, Rigor and Reproducibility
The impact of Research Resource Identifiers (RRIDs) is shown in a new study published in eLife by Babic and colleagues: Incidences of problematic cell lines are lower in papers that use RRIDs to identify cell lines. This study shows that the use of RRIDs in papers is associated with decreased use of misidentified or contaminated cell lines.
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