RRID Robot

This is a social media account that posts about any paper that used an RRID. Our curation team uses the search term “RRID” in various publisher websites, and google scholar. In some very rare cases curators, including those at the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center, may find your paper even if you had not used an RRID and as long as there is sufficient information in the paper, they may add an RRID to something like BDSC:1234 and they translate this to RRID:BDSC1234.

The best way to get this social media attention is to use RRIDs in your manuscript in the methods section or the acknowledgements using a syntax like this RRID:XXX_###

If your RRIDs are listed in supplemental files they will be harder for curators to find, our curators are wonderful, but not perfect. Please send us a note if your paper was not processed but should have been.

If the RRID robot posts about your manuscript, it does mean that your manuscript will show up in the list of papers that used a particular resource, but your paper may not show up on the bottom of all relevant RRID pages for several weeks or a month, so please be patient, this is an automated process, but it does not run every day.

e.g.,

https:n2t.net/RRID:SAMN23408101

This human Islet tissue was used in the following paper:

Sims EK, et al. (2023) Inhibition of polyamine biosynthesis preserves β cell function in type 1 diabetes. Cell reports. Medicine , 4 (11) , 101261. (PMID:37918404)

Where authors stated “…University of Alberta Islet Core RRID:SAMN23408101 Human Islets R421 University of A…”