Nature Methods

Nature Methods

http://www.nature.com/nmeth/index.html

Publisher: Nature Publishing Group

Nature Methods is a forum for the publication of novel methods and  
significant improvements to tried-and-tested techniques in the life  
sciences and related area of chemistry. This monthly publication is  
aimed at a broad, interdisciplinary audience of academic and industry  
researchers actively involved in laboratory practice. It provides  
them with new tools to conduct their research and places a strong  
emphasis on the immediate practical relevance of the work presented.

The journal publishes primary research papers as well as overviews of  
recent technical and methodological developments, and detailed  
descriptions of important established methods. We are actively  
seeking primary method papers of relevance to the biological and  
biomedical sciences, including methods grounded in chemistry that  
have a practical application to the study of biological problems.

To enhance the practical relevance of each paper, description of the  
method must be accompanied by its validation, its application to an  
important biological question and results illustrating its  
performance in comparison to available approaches. Articles are  
selected for publication that present broad interest, thorough  
assessments of methodological performance and comprehensive technical  
descriptions that facilitate immediate application.

Specific areas of interest include but are not limited to: :

* Recombinant DNA and protein technologies
* Construction and screening of libraries and arrays of nucleic  
acids, proteins and chemical compounds
* Microarrays, display techniques, combinatorial chemistry, lab-on-a- 
chip technologies
* Isolation, purification and detection of biological molecules
* Separation techniques, chromatography, chiral separation, labeling,  
epitope tagging, amplification of nucleic acids, single molecule  
detection and characterization
* Methods for analysis of structure and function of biological molecules
* Molecular structure determination, mass spectrometry, binding  
assays, sequencing, detection of post-translational modifications,  
mutagenesis, chemical tagging of biomolecules
* Electrochemical methods
* Detection and characterization of redox molecules
* Techniques of analysis and manipulation of gene expression
* Gene targeting, transduction, RNA interference
* Methods for cell culture
* Imaging and probing technologies
* Microscopy, optical spectroscopy, histology, labeling,  
hybridization techniques, probe scanning, chemical tagging of  
molecules, single cell manipulation
* Immunological techniques
* Production of antibodies, antibody-based assays, immunolabeling
* Bioinformatics and cheminformatics
* Ligand and small molecule design, management and analysis of data.

ISSN: 1548-7091
EISSN: 1548-7105

Papers should be submitted via the online submission system.

Editor:

Veronique Kiermer
Email:  v.kiermer@natureny.com

Nature Methods
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New York NY 10010-1707
USA

Tel: (212) 726-9627;
Fax: (212) 696-9638
Email: methods@natureny.com

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Abstracts available online. Articles available in HTML and PDF format.

Current Issue: July 2006, Volume 3 No 7

Date: 30 June 2006