Researcher Resources

Protocols and Methods

Curated entry points for experimental protocols in chromatin, nuclear organization, imaging, and antibody validation.

Protocol details change with organism, tissue, fixation, antibody, and sequencing platform. Treat these links as starting points and check the original method papers before experimental use.

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General Protocol Libraries

3 resources

Protocols.io

Versioned community protocols, including nuclear biology and chromatin workflows.

Open resource

Nature Protocols

Peer-reviewed methods articles and detailed workflows.

Open resource

Bio-protocol

Open protocols with reproducibility-focused detail.

Open resource

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Technique-Specific Starting Points

7 resources

Hi-C 3.0

Improved genome-wide chromosome conformation capture protocol using dual cross-linking and dual restriction digestion (Lafontaine et al., 2021; Akgol Oksuz et al., 2021).

CUT&RUN

Antibody-targeted chromatin profiling with low background.

Open resource

CUT&TAG

Tagmentation-based chromatin profiling with low input requirements.

Open resource

DamID

DNA adenine methyltransferase identification protocol for mapping in vivo protein–DNA interactions and lamina-associated domains (Vogel, Peric-Hupkes & van Steensel, 2007).

Open resource

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Antibody Validation

2 resources

CiteAb

Citation and use evidence for commercial antibodies.

Open resource

Antibodypedia

Antibody validation data by application and target.

Open resource