The Effect of COVID-19 on Liu Lab Plasmid Requests From Addgene Data
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...observed one complication in the China data – there is a period of 1 month, from 1/22/20–2/23/20, where...Each paper has between 1–32 plasmids and a total of 2–2,590 requests. We received plasmid requests from ...observed between Jan. 1 and Mar. 1, 2020.
Figure 2: A simple approximation of the effect of COVID-19 ...there were zero plasmid requests. Afterwards, from 2/24/20–3/15/20 (the supposed end of lockdown), request...However, it is evident that if we believe that 1/22/20–2/23/20 are the more accurate dates of lockdown in China...subfields.
Plasmid requests correlate with paper publication
The dataset includes 11,426 plasmid requests ...14%). Spikes in plasmid requests correspond to publications of popular papers.
Figure 1: Plasmid requests...