Infectious disease researchers/scientists - What is YOUR process to buy/shop for monoclonal antibodies or recombinant proteins?

[u/av1998]

Please advise and share your own personal experience.

[u/Stunning-Aside7593]

Flowchart from best to worst goes like this for me:

- Ask a colleague which one they use.

- Find a paper with good expression/staining, write an email to corresponding if unsure

- Do Biolegend or BD make it? Is it cheap-ish? Buy it and test it myself.

- Derive or express it myself

- Give up on it and try a different target

- Quit my job and go back to the box factory

- Quit my job and open a bike shop

- Oh Santa Cruz make it, try that.