Unique and persistent IDs for improved reproducibility: Addgene now supports RRIDs and compact identifiers for all plasmids
Type
Blog Post
Published
Nov. 20, 2018, 8:17 p.m.
...solution is the use of unique persistent identifiers (PIDs), a long-lasting way to identify and reference documents...Perhaps the most commonly known form of a unique PID is the Digital Object Identifier (DOI). Nearly all... to be persistent and exist online indefinitely. PIDs historically referred to objects that exist online...numbers associated with them, which serve as unique PIDs within the Addgene catalog. These IDs allow you ...now recommend or require authors to use specific PID formats. For example, several journals like eLife...which are supported by SciCrunch. Other well known PID formats are resolvable compact identifiers, which...compact identifier for every plasmid. In case these PID formats are new to you, we’ll go through examples...