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One stop research shopping – Montana State University

Ever spent days combing the internet for that one reagent or cell line that could take your research to the next level — to no avail? A new effort, funded by a $15 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Research Resources, aims to fix that by centralizing catalogs of reagents, cell and tissue banks, and model organism lines so that researchers can spend less time scouring the internet for these tools, or worse, re-developing existing tools, and more time conducting and evaluating research.

The project, called the eagle-i Consortium, is a collaboration between researchers from Harvard Medical School, Dartmouth University, Jackson State University in Mississippi, the Morehouse School of Medicine, Montana State University http://www.montana.edu/ , Oregon Health and Science University, the University of Alaska, the University of Hawaii, and the University of Puerto Rico. Initially, the consortium will seek to connect researchers to resources — including animal models, equipment, cell and tissue banks, training opportunities, and antibodies — that were developed at the nine schools. Ultimately, though, the aim is to create a national research resource discovery network. "We’re starting with nine, but we’re hoping that over time it will expand to hundreds," Thomas Ulrich, spokesperson for Harvard’s Clinical and Translational Science Center, told The Scientist. Ulrich added that the eagle-i catalog will contain contact information that will help researchers access the tools they find.

by Bob Grant

Full Story: http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/56129/

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