EV-TRACK: transparent reporting and centralizing knowledge in extracellular vesicle research.
EV-TRACK Consortium None., Van Deun J., Mestdagh P., Agostinis P., Akay Ö., 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., Gärtner 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., Monguió-Tortajada M., Mus LM., Muth DC., Németh 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., Théry 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.
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.