The portal Antibodypedia (www.antibodypedia.com) was launched in 2008 to allow sharing of information regarding validation of antibodies. The database provides a resource of publicly available antibodies to human proteins with accompanying experimental evidence supporting an individual validation score for each antibody in an application-specific manner. The resource now contains information for antibodies corresponding to over 19,000 human protein targets.

Key publication

• Björling E et al., Antibodypedia, a portal for sharing antibody and antigen validation data. Mol Cell Proteomics. (2008)
  PubMed: 18667413 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.M800264-MCP200

Other selected publications

• Cottingham K., Antibodypedia seeks to answer the question: "how good is that antibody?". J Proteome Res. (2008)
  PubMed: 18767878 DOI: 10.1021/pr800626d

• Jonasson K et al., The 6th HUPO Antibody Initiative (HAI) workshop: sharing data about affinity reagents and other recent developments. September 2009, Toronto, Canada. Proteomics. (2010)
  PubMed: 20514648 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.201090040

• Alm T et al., A chromosome-centric analysis of antibodies directed toward the human proteome using Antibodypedia. J Proteome Res. (2014)
  PubMed: 24533432 DOI: 10.1021/pr4011525

• Alm T et al., Introducing the Affinity Binder Knockdown Initiativeâ¿¿A publicâ¿¿private partnership for validation of affinity reagents. EuPA Open Proteom. (2016)
  PubMed: 29900101 DOI: 10.1016/j.euprot.2016.01.002