Civil and Environmental Engineering: Protocols
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Protocols
What is a protocol?
A protocol, also known as a standard operating procedure, is a list of instructions to perform an experiment. It is a plan used to duplicate results from a previous test to allow for more accurate analysis. In a research laboratory, many protocols are needed for safety, to operate analytical equipment and to make solutions with minimal mistakes.
A good protocol can save you countless hours in the lab with proven methodologies as a starting point for your research.
Protocols and Methods Resources
- Springer Nature ExperimentsSpringer Protocols contains more than 75,000 molecular biology and biomedical peer-reviewed protocols. It includes molecular techniques; microscopy techniques; cell and tissue culture techniques; spectroscopy techniques; and antibodies.
- Cold Spring Harbor ProtocolsCold Spring Harbor Protocols is an interdisciplinary journal providing a definitive source of research methods in cell, developmental and molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, protein science, computational biology, immunology, neuroscience and imaging.
- Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is a peer reviewed, PubMed indexed journal devoted to the publication of biological, medical, chemical and physical research in a video format.
- Bio-ProtocolA rapidly growing collection of peer-reviewed, life science protocols organized by 11 different fields of study and 10 different organisms. Protocols are organized chronologically with a detailed guide on how to reproduce a given experiment. Each protocol also contains an interactive and moderated Q & A section to facilitate open communication between protocol authors and the research community.
- Current Protocols (Wiley)Six major laboratory methods and protocols series includes basic, alternate, and support protocols with literature cited and information on suppliers for standard materials and preparation information for reagents and solutions.
- Methods in EnzymologyMethods in Enzymology is the classic laboratory methods/protocols book series. The complete backfile of the full-text is available back to volume 1 from 1955. Direct article/chapter links are provided from core subject databases such as PubMed and BIOSIS Previews. Contains detailed protocols and descriptions of biochemical and biophysical techniques for research in biological and molecular sciences. More than 300 volumes are browse-able by individual volumes online from 1955 to the present or by searching across the collection by title, author, abstract, and keyword. Full-text access to articles is available in HTML and PDF formats.
- Nature ProtocolsNature Protocols is an online journal of laboratory protocols for bench researchers. Protocols are presented in a 'recipe' style providing step-by-step descriptions of procedures which users can take to the lab and immediately apply in their own research. Protocols on the site are fully searchable and organized into logical categories to be easily accessible to researchers.
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Database that index selected protocols
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Protocols from the Web
- Open WetWareis an effort to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering.
- Protocol ExchangeThe Protocol Exchange is an open resource where the community of scientists pool their experimental know-how to help accelerate research.
- Protocol Onlinea database of research protocols in a variety of life science fields. It contains protocols contributed by worldwide researchers as well as links to web protocols hosted by worldwide research labs, biotech companies, personal web sites.