Do.abl.es

Do you want to know you can measure DNA contour lengths using ImageJ?  Perhaps you want to stain a C. Elegans embryo for imaging?  Or possibly, you might want to test whether or not you have gotten an immune response using ELISA?

Martin Fitzpatrick sends word of a cool collection of open access scientific protocols called Do.abl.es.  For the uninitiated, protocols are the recipes that scientists use to carry out experiments in a reproducible way.  The list of protocols posted to Do.abl.es to date has a number of interesting and important biochemistry and biology experiments.

There’s also a neat companion site called Install.abl.es which concentrates on many of the same things we do – the use of open source software in the sciences.