Researchers are encouraged to use the publications available within this Gateway as a guide to select renewable and specific antibodies for their research needs. For high-quality antibodies targeting human proteins not covered in this Gateway, please visit our Zenodo community with antibody characterization data for over 100 human proteins.

Antibodies are vital tools in biomedical research. Currently there are over a million unique commercially available antibodies. In collaboration with leading antibody manufacturers and knockout cell line providers, YCharOS has developed an antibody characterization platform enabling the systematic comparison of antibody performance of antibodies for western blot, immunoprecipitation and immunofluorescence.

YCharOS is a public-private partnership that aims to create an open science environment. We provide a trusted space for academic participants and industry partners to share their expertise and resources. This new antibody characterization model is generating rigorous characterization data for use by the scientific community.

This F1000 Gateway provides a place to publish the resulting data for human proteins, and to promote this work to the scientific community in an open and transparent manner without restriction. The Gateway sheds light on YCharOS's work while providing critical knowledge to the community and ultimately reducing research waste.