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

Van Deun, J; Mestdagh, P; Agostinis, P; Akay, O; Anand, S; Anckaert, J; Martinez, Za; Baetens, T; Beghein, E; Bertier, L; Berx, G; Boere, J; Boukouris, S; Bremer, M; Buschmann, D; Byrd, Jb; Casert, C; Cheng, L; Cmoch, A; Daveloose, D; De Smedt, E; Demirsoy, S; Depoorter, V; Dhondt, B; Driedonks, Tap; Dudek, A; Elsharawy, A; Floris, I; Foers, Ad; Gartner, K; Garg, Ad; Geeurickx, E; Gettemans, J; Ghazavi, F; Giebel, B; Kormelink, Tg; Hancock, G; Helsmoortel, H; Hill, Af; Hyenne, V; Kalra, H; Kim, D; Kowal, J; Kraemer, S; Leidinger, P; Leonelli, C; Liang, Y; Lippens, L; Liu, S; Lo Cicero, A; Martin, S; Mathivanan, S; Mathiyalagan, P; Matusek, T; Milani, G; Monguio-Tortajada, M; Mus, Lm; Muth, Dc; Nemeth, A; Nolte-'T Hoen, Enm; O'Driscoll, L; Palmulli, R; Pfaffl, Mw; Primdal-Bengtson, B; Romano, E; Rousseau, Q; Sahoo, S; Sampaio, N; Samuel, M; Scicluna, B; Soen, B; Steels, A; Swinnen, Jv; Takatalo, M; Thaminy, S; Thery, C; Tulkens, J; Van Audenhove, I; Van Der Grein, S; Van Goethem, A; Van Herwijnen, Mj; Van Niel, G; Van Roy, N; Van Vliet, Ar; Vandamme, N; Vanhauwaert, S; Vergauwen, G; Verweij, F; Wallaert, A; Wauben, M; Witwer, Kw; Zonneveld, Mi; De Wever, O; Vandesompele, J; Hendrix, A

doi:10.1038/nmeth.4185

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.

Van Deun J., Mestdagh P., Agostinis P., Akay O., Anand S., Anckaert J., et al. (2017). EV-TRACK: Transparent reporting and centralizing knowledge in extracellular vesicle research. NATURE METHODS, 14(3), 228-232 [10.1038/nmeth.4185].