Methods Section Writer
Drafts a Materials and Methods paragraph from your experiment details, leaves unsupplied details as placeholders, and lists what ARRIVE, MIQE and SAMPL would still ask for.
How it works
Generates Materials and Methods prose from the parameters you supply, in passive voice and past tense, structured to satisfy ARRIVE and MIQE reporting requirements. Placeholders mark details only your lab can supply, such as catalogue and lot numbers.
Frequently asked questions
What must a reproducible methods section include?
Enough detail for an independent lab to repeat the work: exact reagent identities with vendor, catalogue and where relevant lot numbers, cell line source and passage range, antibody RRIDs and dilutions, instrument models and settings, software with version numbers, the number of independent biological replicates, and the statistical tests applied with the exact p-values reported rather than thresholds.
What are the ARRIVE and MIQE guidelines?
ARRIVE covers reporting of animal research — species, strain, sex, housing, sample size justification, randomisation and blinding. MIQE covers quantitative PCR — RNA quality and quantification, reverse transcription conditions, primer sequences, amplification efficiency, and reference gene selection. Both exist because omitting these details is the most common reason published experiments cannot be reproduced.