As you prepare to start a new experiment in the lab do you find yourself spending time trying to find a protocol that is proven to work? Chances are you are relying on what other members of your lab have established and archived on the shelves in a Protocols binder, or you may even find yourself photocopying scribbled notes about a related experiment from your lab member's notebook. If you are unable to find what you need from your immediate lab members, then chances are you have to rely on searching through generic text-book protocols or searching through relevant publications, reading methods sections in order to determine the details of how a particular experiment was conducted.

It's a pity that an enormous amount of lab time is lost repetitively searching for, establishing and optimizing protocols in the life sciences, chemistry, or physics when in fact such work may have already been done by someone else.

MySharedProtocols.com believes that scientific research should have no geographical boundaries. Regardless of the type of research you do, the institution you are affiliated with or where you are located, you have the ability to connect with and learn from scientists around the world through this shared protocols site. It's a place where you can organize and share your own lab protocols, view current protocols shared by other researchers, search for published protocols from the literature or learn about protocols available from vendors, all in one central location.

MySharedProtocols.com allows you to search for and share the following types of protocols:


Published protocols - these are PubMed abstracts describing protocols published in peer-reviewed methods journals. Learn more ...

Shared community protocols - these are protocols that have been submitted by researchers worldwide. Learn more ...

Vendor protocols - these are links to protocols provided with assays and kits sold by popular vendors. Learn more ...


It's our hope that through MySharedProtocols.com, you will find that ready accessibility to scientific protocols no longer has to be limited to your individual laboratory, but is now open to a growing, worldwide pool of connected researchers.