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
Over the summer we asked for contributions from our readers for the cover of our tenth anniversary issue. We asked for images of the number “10” made using biological research tools and techniques. We were delighted to have many excellent submissions and to be able to use them all on the cover. Here is a bit more detail about these images. Read more
In the September 2014 issue of Nature Methods, authors at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology argue in a Commentary that a productive way to frame the discussion about the reproducibility of biological results is to focus on how best to make good measurements. In other words, increasing the confidence in measurements is likely to also increase the reproducibility of the results of those measurements. Notably, in complex biological systems, making good measurements is not trivial. Read this month’s editorial introducing this topic here and link to the Commentary here. 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
To study a primordial nervous system, Leonid Moroz brings the tools of biology to the open sea. Nature Methods spoke with the neurobiologist turned sea adventurer. Meet neurobiologist Leonid Moroz of the University of Florida, the inventor of Ship-Seq. His hair is not always this wild, although his ideas tend to be. Read more
The editors of a scientific journal have an editorial prerogative to publish articles that fall under the editorial scope of the journal as they see it. But defining this scope in a way that is clear to those outside the editorial team can be difficult and any definition can become dated as science and the journal evolve. Here we discuss the scope of Nature Methods. Read more
Alberto Cairo responds to a Correspondence criticising the use of storytelling techniques in scientific research articles and journalism. Read more
Some thoughts and advice from the editors at Nature Methods on communicating with us and our reviewers, particularly on matters of disagreement. Read more
Part one of our 3-part series on the dos and don’ts of communicating with editors and reviewers. Read more
A well written rebuttal letter is critical in any resubmission. … Read more
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