We're migrating all Protocol Exchange content! All protocols posted on Protocol Exchange will be migrating onto the protocols.io platform (now also part of the Springer Nature family) in 2024. This will allow protocols to be accessible and available with all of the dynamic interactive functionality of protocols.io. To prepare for the content migration, we will be turning off the ability to submit new protocols and to submit revised versions on the Protocol Exchange site at the end of May, 2024. If you have previously posted work on the Protocol Exchange, you will receive an email from us soon. During May, 2024, you can finalize any in-progress submissions and revisions on the Protocol Exchange site; however, if you wish to start a new protocol submission, please go to protocols.io. After we move the existing Protocol Exchange content to protocols.io, you will be able to submit revisions there directly. Please see this page for more information.
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