Anita Bandrowski

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Why do people still put in the town a company is in instead of the identifier (catalog num) for a reagent?

(GFAB antibody Sigma, Trenton, OH) - look familiar? When was the last time you bought something from a company by calling the switchboard for that city? That is where this practice comes from. Is...

02 February 2015 4,276 0 View

What are the steps I can take as a young scientist to maximize the impact of my article?

Should I assume that only the reviewers will read my papers unless I do things to 'market' my papers? What do you do?

11 November 2014 1,536 1 View

Is there a sustainability model for academic databases?

The funding agencies and societies have commissioned a multitude of biological databases, 2334 at last count according to the NIF Registry, and the question that we keep hearing is "my renewal is...

01 January 2014 6,048 3 View

We aggregate data, have done so for hundreds of data sets and put them on a uniform service api, is that useful to anyone?

Here are the specifics: There current data summary is here: http://nif-services.neuinfo.org/servicesv1/v1/summary?q=* The other services are based on the id of each database and can be accessed...

07 July 2013 7,354 2 View

Why not use catalog numbers for reagents in methods?

After some analysis of methods sections in various journals, we found that just about everyone is using the vendor name and location (as if anyone is actually going to write a letter to a...

07 July 2013 9,389 2 View