The ERCC Resource Catalog was initiated by Mike McManus of UCSF and Al Charest of Harvard of the U19 Working Group during the first stage of the ERCC. The U19 WG consisted of 5 diverse research teams in San Francisco, Boston, Nashville, and New York whose mandate was to understand the biological function and mechanism of exRNAs. (See the project description here.)

A part of that mandate was to make available to the wider research community any useful tools and reagents developed during the course of their research. As ERCC Stage 1 ends, we are working to transition the still useful plasmids, cell lines, and mouse strains into public repositories.

The process is ongoing –– we list here only those materials that we have vetted and know to be easily available and useful for future research. The original full catalog is still available on the Resources/Reagents page for those looking for something specific, and the academic literature is always the best source of information about research materials. Our Resources and Technology publications and Protocols pages are good starting points.

For sharing of archived biological samples, go to the Virtual Biorepository, and to explore our dataset comparing the performance of 10 RNA isolation kits in 5 biofluids, go to the miRDaR app.