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Physical Education, Sports Medicine & Physiology: Protocols

what is?

In the natural sciences a protocol is a defined written procedural method in the design and implementation of experiments.

Selected Protocol databases

PubMed - resource for finding recent protocols.

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols: full-text published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.

Current Protocols [Wiley]
Access Current Protocols in Toxicology,  bioinformatics, Control Protocols in Field Analytical Chemistry, and others.

Methods in Enzymology

Nature Protocols

Springer Nature Experiments
Alternative Name(s) & Keywords: Springer Protocols (BioMed Protocols)
Experimental procedures in biochemistry, bioinformatics, biotechnology, cancer biology, cell biology, genetics/genomics, imaging/radiology, infectious diseases, microbiology, molecular biology and medicine, neuroscience, pharmacology/toxicology, plant sciences, and protein science.
Online versions of Methods in Molecular Biology and Methods in Molecular Medicine.

Clinical Studies and Trials

ClinicalTrials.Gov.
A clinical study involves research using human volunteers (also called participants) that is intended to add to medical knowledge. There are two main types of clinical studies: clinical trials (also called interventional studies) and observational studies. ClinicalTrials.gov includes both interventional and observational studies.