Antibody market research 2016 from St John's Laboratory Ltd.

1. Antibody Market Research 2016
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2. before
2011
Dataset
16837 publications
From 1160 journals
Data overview
78 commonly used antibody targets
2500 antibody products
50 antibody vendors (brands)
19000 antibody applications

3. Top 15 Journals with the most antibody citations
Please note: For all the bar charts in this report, Y-axis represents
the number of citations/publications
The majority of antibody citations came from PLoS ONE and J Biol Chem. Therefore, PLoS ONE
and J Biol Chem are good places to find potential antibody customers, and to check trends of
antibody markets. Those two journals are also ideal places to obtain product citations.

4. Research areas for antibody applications
This w o r d c l o u d show s
keywords of research areas
from the dataset. The size/
colour of each word represents
the frequency it appears-the
larger/darker, the more
frequent.
We may conclude that these
research terms that have the
highest demand of antibodies:
1. Cell
2. Cancer
3. Protein receptor
4. Kinase
5. Signaling
6. factor
7. apoptosis
8. DNA
9. Disease-related
10.Stem cell
11.Cell stress

5. Top 15 countries with the most antibody citations
Obviously, USA is the biggest antibody market globally, and the second is
China.
In other districts of Asia, Japan is the biggest market.
For Europe, Germany and UK have the highest demand of antibodies.
In other districts of America, Canada and Brazil could be the most potential
market.

6. Top 10 institutions with the most antibody citations
Although antibody citations came from many different institutions, we can conclude which of them
which have the most antibody citations. Among these top 10 institutions, 8 are located in USA,
while University of California and NIH ranked in 1st and 2nd.
For those two institutions that are not located in USA, Chinese Academy of Sciences ranked the
4th, while University of Cambridge ranked 9th.

7. Antibody targets with the most citations
C
C
K C
C
K P A
MP TF
TF-Transcription factor
C-Loading control
K-Kinase
P-protease
A-Adhesion
MP-Membrane protein
PT-phosphatase
TF C
PT
K TF
Apparently, beta actin and GAPDH are the most cited for use as loading control antibodies. On
the other hand, the well-characterized protein in cancer- related pathways, Akt, is the 3rd
most
popular antibody target. To conclude, almost all of these popular antibodiesare cancer-related
receptors/regulators. Therefore, this demonstrates that cancer research is the most popular
research area for antibody uses.
Moreover, loading controls, antibodies against Kinases andantibodies againsttranscription
factors could be the most popular antibody types.

8. Antibody vendors with the most citations
Among those 50 antibody vendors, SCBT, CST and Invitrogen(Thermo Fisher) ranked in the top 3,
while Abcam only ranked 5th (This data is not equavalent to the actual sales. In Abcam’s 2016
annual report, it claimed the 1st position in the antibody market).
SCBT and CST antibody users might be the most likely to publish a paper.

9. Landscape: antibody applications
Western blot is the most common antibody
application, while Immunohistochemistry sits in
second.
For other applications, Immunofluorescence/
immunocytochemistry might have high potentials.
It seems ChIP and Immunoprecipitation are not so
popular in the market.

10. Market share monoclonal vs. polyclonal
Importantly, monoclonal antibodies are the
major force in the market, as it currently stands
for 63% market shares. Monoclonal antibodies
will be the trend in the future market.

11. Landscape: antibody host species
For host species of antibody production, rabbit
and mouse are the majorities.

12. Top 15 antibody clone numbers with the most citations

13. Top 15 catalogue antibodies with the most citations
Most cited antibodies from different vendors:
SCBT: 3 products, Sigma: 4 products, Dako: 2 products, CST: 3 products, Invitrogen: 1 product,
Abcam: 1 product, Millipore: 1 product.

14. Landscape: antibody reactivity coverage
For antibody reactivity, we might conclude that
most antibodies are anti-human and anti- mouse.
Anti-rat antibody is a minority.