''Current Protocols'' is a series of laboratory manuals for life scientists. The first title, ''Current Protocols in Molecular Biology'', was established in 1987 by the founding editors Frederick M. Ausubel,

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, Robert Kingston, David D. Moore, Jon Seidman, Kevin Struhl, and John A. Smith of the

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Department of Molecular Biology and the Harvard Medical School Departments of Genetics and Biological Chemistry, along with Sarah Greene of Greene Publishing Associates The Current Protocols series entered into a partnership with by Wiley-Interscience, John Wiley and Sons, and was then acquired by Wiley in 1995, and has continued to introduce additional titles. Scientists contribute methods that are

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s. The core content of each title is updated, and new material is added, on a quarterly basis. In 2009, the Current Protocols website was launched. The site features online versions of all of the texts, research tools, video protocols, and a blog. As of March, 2018, several Current Protocols titles are indexed in MEDLINE and searchable by PubMed: CP Molecular Biology, CP Immunology, CP Cell Biology, CP Protein Science, CP Microbiology.

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