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We celebrate the 15th anniversary issue of Nature Methods with a look back on the past decade and a half, and a look forward to the future of methods development.
To mark the 15th anniversary of Nature Methods, we asked scientists from across diverse fields of basic biology research for their views on the most exciting and essential methodological challenges that their communities are poised to tackle in the near future.
Labs in different neuropsychiatry subfields don’t always see eye to eye, but convergent approaches help them join forces to study these difficult conditions.
Single-particle techniques offer an unprecedented opportunity to understand the role of structural variability in biological function. They also call into question the meaning of ‘a structure’ and its relevance to function.