EV-TRACK: transparent reporting and centralizing knowledge in extracellular vesicle research.

Authors:
Jan Van Deun, Pieter Mestdagh, Patrizia Agostinis, Özden Akay, Sushma Anand, Jasper Anckaert, Zoraida Andreu Martinez, Tine Baetens, Els Beghein, Laurence Bertier, Geert Berx, Janneke Boere, Stephanie Boukouris, Michel Bremer, Dominik Buschmann, James B Byrd, Clara Casert, Lesley Cheng, Anna Cmoch, Delphine Daveloose, Eva De Smedt, Seyma Demirsoy, Victoria Depoorter, Bert Dhondt, Tom A P Driedonks, Aleksandra Dudek, Abdou Elsharawy, Ilaria Floris, Andrew D Foers, Kathrin Gärtner, Abhishek D Garg, Edward Geeurickx, Jan Gettemans, Farzaneh Ghazavi, Bernd Giebel, Tom Groot Kormelink, Grace Hancock, Hetty Helsmoortel, Andrew F Hill, Vincent Hyenne, Hina Kalra, David Kim, Joanna Kowal, Sandra Kraemer, Petra Leidinger, Carina Leonelli, Yaxuan Liang, Lien Lippens, Shu Liu, Alessandra Lo Cicero, Shaun Martin, Suresh Mathivanan, Prabhu Mathiyalagan, Támas Matusek, Gloria Milani, Marta Monguió-Tortajada, Liselot M Mus, Dillon C Muth, Andrea Németh, Esther N M Nolte-'t Hoen, Lorraine O'Driscoll, Roberta Palmulli, Michael W Pfaffl, Bjarke Primdal-Bengtson, Erminia Romano, Quentin Rousseau, Susmita Sahoo, Natalia Sampaio, Monisha Samuel, Benjamin Scicluna, Bieke Soen, Anneleen Steels, Johannes V Swinnen, Maarit Takatalo, Safia Thaminy, Clotilde Théry, Joeri Tulkens, Isabel Van Audenhove, Susanne van der Grein, Alan Van Goethem, Martijn J van Herwijnen, Guillaume Van Niel, Nadine Van Roy, Alexander R Van Vliet, Niels Vandamme, Suzanne Vanhauwaert, Glenn Vergauwen, Frederik Verweij, Annelynn Wallaert, Marca Wauben, Kenneth W Witwer, Marijke I Zonneveld, Olivier De Wever, Jo Vandesompele, An Hendrix
Year of publication:
2017
Volume:
14
Issue:
3
Issn:
1548-7091
Journal title abbreviated:
NAT METHODS
Journal title long:
Nature methods
Impact factor:
47.990
Abstract:
We argue that the field of extracellular vesicle (EV) biology needs more transparent reporting to facilitate interpretation and replication of experiments. To achieve this, we describe EV-TRACK, a crowdsourcing knowledgebase (http://evtrack.org) that centralizes EV biology and methodology with the goal of stimulating authors, reviewers, editors and funders to put experimental guidelines into practice.