When the Nature Methods editors sat down last year to select a Method of the Year for 2007, it was with the firm intention of initiating a yearly tradition. This year, the editors are are asking for your opinion, so please nominate candidate methods as well as vote and comment on posted suggestions.

From the editorial in the September issue of Nature Methods (5, 749; 2008):

The Method of the Year event is a celebration of methods development and innovation because we think that methods developers should have their share of the limelight. It is also a fun opportunity to assemble Commentaries, technical information and news items about a method we consider particularly important among the developments that we, as editors, continuously observe across a broad range of disciplines. But we also wanted to take the pulse at the bench and see what you, with firsthand experience, think of recent methods developments. This online one-click voting and nomination process is your opportunity to speak up.

We are interested in methods that have come into their own in 2008 and have had a proven impact, but also in your views on burgeoning methods which, while they are not quite ready for prime time, are worth watching.