Title
Requirements For Documenting Electrical Cell Stimulation Experiments For Replicability And Numerical Modeling
Abstract
Thorough documentation of biological experiments is necessary for their replicability. This becomes even more evident when individual steps of in vitro wet-lab experiments are to be incorporated into computer simulation models. In the highly interdisciplinary field of electrical stimulation of biological cells, not only biological but also physical aspects play a crucial role. Simulations may help to identify parameters that influence cells and thereby reveal new insights into mechanisms of the cell biological system. However, missing or misleading documentation of the electrical stimulation step within wet-lab experiments may lead to discrepancies between reported and simulated electrical quantities. In addition, this threatens the replicability of electrical stimulation experiments. Thus, we argue that a minimal set of information is needed to enable a translation of electrical stimulation experiments of biological cells into computer simulation experiments and to support replicability. This set includes detailed information about the electronic devices and components, their set-up as well as the applied stimulus and shall be integrated into an existing guideline for cell biological experiments. Ideally, the documentation should also contain measured properties of the cellular and experimental environment. Furthermore, a realization of our proposed documentation requirements within electronic lab notebooks may provide a crucial step toward a more seamless integration of wet-lab data into simulations. Based on two exemplary studies, we demonstrate the relevance of our claim.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/EMBC.2019.8856863
2019 41ST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY (EMBC)
Field
DocType
Volume
Computer science,Electronic engineering,Human–computer interaction,Electronics,Documentation,Numerical modeling
Conference
2019
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1557-170X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kai Budde101.01
Julius Zimmermann200.34
Elisa Neuhaus300.34
Max Schröder445.86
Adelinde M. Uhrmacher575581.53
Ursula van Rienen600.68