Ten years of Methods
Our tenth anniversary is an occasion to celebrate methods development! Read more
Our tenth anniversary is an occasion to celebrate methods development! Read more
It was only a few months before Nature Methods was launched in October 2004 that Jan Huisken and Ernst Stelzer had published a paper in Science in which they used light sheet microscopy – what they called selective plane illumination microscopy or SPIM – to image fluorescence within transgenic embryos. Simplistically put, this century-old technique achieves optical sectioning by illuminating a sample through its width with a thin sheet of light. In the last decade, Nature Methods has published a steady stream of papers reporting developments in light-sheet imaging. Here are the highlights. Read more
The former Chief Editor of Nature Methods bids farewell to his cherished scientific journal and welcomes its new Chief. Read more
Our October 2014 issue will be a celebration of our 10 year anniversary and we want you to help us celebrate by contributing to the creation of the anniversary issue cover. Read more
This month we launch a new column ‘Points of Significance’ devoted to statistics, a topic of profound importance for biological research, but one that often doesn’t receive the attention it deserves. Read more
Beginning May 1st Nature Methods will be requiring authors of manuscripts being sent back to peer review to fill out a checklist to disclose technical and statistical information about their submission. Read more
Our popular “Points of View” column returns this month after a brief hiatus. Here is a bit of history of the column and an introduction to its new author. Read more
It is no secret that imaging, and microscopy in particular, represents a substantial fraction of the manuscripts published in Nature Methods. Our very first focus issue, in fact, was on fluorescence imaging. When that focus was published in 2005 the term ‘bioimage informatics’ didn’t even exist. Even today, the term isn’t widely used and, unlike many other bioinformaticians, those who work on the development of algorithms and software tools for analysis of biological image data have few dedicated venues for discussing or publishing their work. Read more
Data in research papers that is best presented in the form of videos gets short shrift compared to data that can be easily presented in figures and tables. Printing of representative video frames is a poor surrogate. Embedding videos in PDFs is possible but rare. Even online, where embedding videos in an HTML page is technologically easy, videos are usually provided only as links in the supplementary information for downloading video files. Read more
This month’s editorial describes recent changes that have been taking place inside the journal, most notably the addition of two new journalistic pieces “The Author File” and “Points of View”. The latter is a new monthly column with tips on how to graphically present scientific data written by Bang Wong. More information about Bang can be found on his website. Read more
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