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We've created the checklist below to so that checking your data for key specifications and quality issues is easy to do. Covering the key specifications and quality components in your listings will assure that you are maximizing the contribution of your product data to your overall results on Biocompare.
Check your Specs:
Check your file against the specification lists below:
1. Required specifications are needed to create basic entries in our product directory.
2. Specifications that are recommended for optimal search ranking are observed by our search engine as completeness factors; including these specifications will optimize your ranking in our search results.
3. Recommended specifications will help our users to compare products and to choose the products that best fit their needs.
4. Optional specifications further define your specialized products as needed.
Notes: Specifications that are not found on these lists will not be accepted in our database. Additional Search Tool Specifications will be added as they become available. For descriptions of each specification, please see the listing guidelines.
Check your Categorization:
❑ Make sure you have included separate spreadsheets or columns to indicate categorization or product type. Click here to learn more about how to categorize your products.
Check your Data Quality:
1. Check to make sure antibody product names meet our guidelines (i.e. target is not repeated and the item name is not the target).
Examples:
❑ Allowed: Anti CD4 Antibody
❑ Allowed: CD4 antibody [1F6]
❑ Allowed: Anti-CD4 Triple A Polyclonal
X Disallowed: CD4
X Disallowed: Anti CD4 Antibody (CD4)
X Disallowed: Anti-CD4 Molecule (CD4) antibody
2. Check to make sure that the file contains concise, data-only entries as much as possible. Example fields to check: Applications, Species Reactivity, Species, Target or Molecule. Submitting concise data will maximize your product listings in Biocompare search results.
❑ Example of a concise, data-only entry for Application (good): WB, Immunohistochemsitry
X Example of an explanatory entry (not good): This product has been used successfully in Western Blots (1:100-1:10000) and Immunohistochemistry, but fails in ELISAs
3. Check References to make sure they are semicolon separated PubMed or PubMedCentral ID's.
Check your Formatting:
1. Check for non-english characters (note: Files with non-english characters will be returned for corrections).
2. Check HTML tags for anything beyond basic formatting tags – bold, italics, underline, lists, superscript, etc. are OK.
❑ Allowed tags: <b>,<i>,<em>,<strong>,<u>,<br>,<sub>,<sup>,<ul>,<li>
X Disallowed tags: <table>,<tr>,<td>,<hr>,<block>,<ol>,<p>,<div>,<a href="…">,<img>,<span>