pAbmAbs: Independent Antibody Reviews

Tired of spending precious money and time purchasing and trouble-shooting commercial antibodies that ultimately don’t work in your system? Are you sheltering-in-place at home, but still looking to make valuable contributions to the scientific community? Check out pAbmAbs:

pAbmAbs, a self-described Tripadvisor for antibodies, is a nonprofit resource to help researchers identify antibodies that work well or do not work well for their particular application by cataloguing both positive and negative community-submitted antibody reviews. FlyBase has partnered with pAbmAbs in an effort to increase the number of reviews submitted by Drosophila researchers and thereby increase pAbmAbs’ usefulness to the fly community. Submitting antibody reviews is easy and takes only a few minutes; we’ve even compiled some guidelines for you below. Please go to the pAbmAbs website to submit your reviews today!

For more about pAbmAbs, and other information about Drosophila-specific antibodies, please visit this FlyBase wiki page.

Suggested details to include in antibody reviews:

• Antibody name
• Source/Vendor
• Catalog number
• Original antigen
• Drosophila target/ortholog
• Assay
• Tissue/Cell line
• Antibody dilution/concentration
• Important experimental details (e.g. fixation conditions)
• Reference, if published

Please note that all submitted reviews are screened by pAbmAbs so there may be a delay between submission and appearance on the website.