Laboratory Protocols: Home

Scientific laboratory protocol resources

Use these resources to find both standard, time-tested methods and newly-developed, specialized techniques.

Protocols Online - Databases and Journals

Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)
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o Peer-reviewed scientific video journal of methods and protocols.
o Access to 4 sections of the JoVE Video Journal: JoVE Biology; JoVE Immunology & Infection; JoVE Medicine; and JoVE Neuroscience.
o Access to 7 sections of JoVE Science Education: Analytical Chemistry; Basic Methods in Cellular and Molecular Biology; Essentials of Biology 1 and 2; General Chemistry; General Laboratory Techniques; and Organic Chemistry.
SpringerNature Experiments
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o Access to Springer Protocols, Nature Methods, Nature Protocols, & Nature Reviews Methods Primers.
o Includes the full text of Methods in Molecular Biology, Methods in Molecular Medicine, Methods in Biotechnology, Methods in Pharmacology & Toxicology, & Neuromethods.
Methods in Cell Biology
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o Techniques for studying cell biology
o Online volumes 1964-2019
Methods in Enzymology
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o Subjects include Biochemistry, Microbiology, Molecular & Cellular Biology, and Genetics.
o Online volumes from 1955 - present.
Progress in Brain Research
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o Laboratory neuroscience and clinical brain research
o Online volumes 1964-2019
PhenX Toolkit
o Catalog of recommended measurement protocols for studies (genomic, epidemiological, clinical, translational) with human participants.
o Protocol examples: gender identity, physical functioning, regret about healthcare decisions, spatial reasoning.
Bio-protocol
o Peer-reviewed, open access protocol journal for the life sciences.
o Each protocol has been validated in a research paper and then has been peer reviewed.
Biological Procedures Online
o Peer-reviewed open access journal from BioMed Central.
o Emphasis on multidisciplinary approaches that integrate methodologies from medicine, biology, chemistry, imaging, engineering, bioinformatics, computer science, and systems analysis.
MethodsX
o Multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that publishes methodological advances and protocols.
Scientific Protocols
o Protocol sharing site - part of The Reproducibility Initiative.
o Built on GitHub.
Protocols.io
o Site for protocol creation, modification, and sharing.
o Offers protocols registration, including DOI creation and long-term preservation