Siegel Vivian
Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 01239.
Mol Biol Cell. 2020 Dec 15;31(26):2879-2882. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E20-07-0487.
Incomplete methods sections have made it difficult for researchers to replicate and build on the work of others, contributing to problems in reproducibility. It is important to increase the level of detail in our methods sections and to share step-by-step protocols in protocol repositories or journals. Request a Protocol is a new feature in that allows readers to request detailed protocols directly from the methods section of the research article, with links between the protocols and the research articles, and has the potential to improve research reproducibility and help everyone design and execute robust life science experiments.
不完整的方法部分使研究人员难以复制他人的工作并在此基础上进行拓展，从而导致了可重复性方面的问题。增加方法部分的详细程度并在协议库或期刊中分享逐步的实验方案非常重要。“请求协议”是一项新功能，它允许读者直接从研究文章的方法部分请求详细的实验方案，在协议和研究文章之间建立链接，并且有潜力提高研究的可重复性，并帮助每个人设计和执行可靠的生命科学实验。
