Behind the scenes: Addgene’s new search engine and more
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...have perfected processes to curate the data our depositors share and enrich it with sequencing data; as ...categories — catalog, educational resources, and depositors — each with subcategories such as plasmids and...educational resources, and labs and institutions for depositors (see below). Even if the user experience is similar...scoped to plasmids shows filters for expression and vector type, while a search scoped to viral preps shows... match. For example, matches of a name in the depositor field will rank higher than matches of the same...that contains a plasmid with the catalog ID). Depositor suggestions provide shortcuts to matching PI labs...