The RRID, research resource identifier, initiative is a system for identifying the following in the methods sections of journal articles: antibodies, cell lines, plasmids, organisms, and tools, which may include software and hardware used to conduct the experiments Similar to the CAS system for chems., the RRID is a persistent unique identifier, provided by an authoratative database for a particular resource type. An example is the Antibody Registry, which provides RRIDs for antibody reagents, while Cellosaurus provides RRIDs for cell lines. The RRID system is built on top of these core atuhorities and allows authors to search for all RRIDs in a single portal (rrid.site), pointed to by multiple publishers including NatureResearch, AACR, Wiley and Sons, and PLoS. Making chem. journal articles more FAIR should include properly labeling all resources including antibodies and statistical or phys. tools. Statistical tools, especially those that are created by individual laboratories may be quite useful yet are not often subjected to thourough quality control, resulting in bugs are only uncovered years later as was recently demonstrated by Neupane et al, 2019 (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03216). These researchers uncovered that chem. shift value calculations for NMR experiments were effected by operating system used. In the field of Neuroimaging, a similar discovery was made roughly a decade ago, where one of the most popular MRI programs was observed to change the answer for a measurement of cortical thickness depending on the operating system that it was running on. In neuroimaging, the package was updated by source developers and is a known bug tested for when code is released. The problem, however, remains in the literature because the bug potentially effected hundreds of studies that can't be identified because authors failed to add sufficiently granular information about software into their manuscripts. We have found that the use of cell lines that are misidentified or contaminated at the repository where they are purchased, may effect as much as 16% of the articles that use cell lines. Use of the RRID system allows anyone to reveal the articles that may be affected by a particular problem resource with nothing more than the RRID and google scholar. We have also shown that the use of the RRID system by authors before publication substantially reduces the use of problematic reagents in the scientific literature.