Saturday, October 10, 2009

Fungal Protocols at Molecular Station

Some Fungal protocols are posted at Molecular Station. Molecular Station seems to be an aggregator of sorts, and all of the things posted under "Fungal Protocols" are certainly not protocols in the standard sense of the term.

So what is a protocol. For the purposes of MycoTechnica, a protocol is a procedure and method written in such as way so that it can be followed and carried out by a practitioner. It does not include a paper that is just "helpful advice" or "suggestions" for how to do or improve something (not even another protocol!).

The "protocols" at Molecular Station are divided betwen three categories—Aspergillus, Neurospora, and Fungi Genetics. There are 117 listed, but how many of them are actual protocols is unclear.

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