Nature Methods是发表生命科学中新方法和重大革创，且经实验验证的基础研究技术论坛。该刊旨在针对积极参与实验室实践中学术及从业人员的跨学科受众，并为他们提供新的研究工具，强调该项工作的实用性。该期刊以研究论文为主，同时也发表综述。同时，该刊正积极寻求与生物或生物医学有关的方法论论文，包括化学基础的方法，在生物学中也有实际应用。为了增强论文的实用性，在方法描述中附带其验证，要在重要生物学问题上的应用，以及与现有方法相比可说明其性能的结果。 
期刊收录研究方向：核酸操作、扩增和测序方法，蛋白质工程、表达和纯化方法，蛋白质组学方法（包括质谱分析、结合相互作用分析、微阵列技术、显示技术、翻译后修饰分析、糖生物学和代谢组学），系统生物学方法（包括蛋白质组学方法、蛋白质相互作用分析方法和基因组表达调控谱），生物分子结构分析技术（包括核磁共振和晶体学），化学生物学技术（包括化学标记、扩大遗传密码和定向进化的方法），生物物理方法（包括单分子和芯片实验室技术），光学和非光学成像技术（包括探针设计和标记方法、显微镜、光谱学和体内成像），基因表达的分析和操作技术（包括表观遗传学、基因靶向、转导、RNA干扰和基于微阵列的技术），细胞培养和操作方法（包括干细胞、单细胞方法和芯片实验室技术），免疫学技术（包括生产抗体、抗体为基础的化验和免疫标记），研究包括癌症在内的生理和疾病过程方法，涉及模型生物及其操作和表型的方法，用于生物数据分析、建模或可视化的计算方法和生物信息学方法，基于纳米技术的方法应用于基础生物学

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Chief Editor: Allison Doerr
Allison Doerr began conducting research in polymer chemistry as an undergraduate at Vassar College. She obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Princeton University working in George McLendon's laboratory, where she studied de novo protein receptor design and investigated protein-ligand interactions using NMR spectroscopy. She covers biochemistry and chemical biology content for the journal, including proteomics, metabolomics and structural biology. Allison joined Nature Methods in February 2005 and has been Chief Editor since November 2018. 
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Senior Editor: Nina Vogt
Nina Vogt began her research career as an undergraduate at Heidelberg University working with yeast. She conducted her Ph.D. research at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, where she studied mRNA localization in Drosophila with Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard. She then moved on to a postdoc in Claude Desplan's laboratory at New York University where she established a behavioral assay for color vision in Drosophila. She handles the neuroscience, model organism, mechanobiology and stem cell content for the journal. Nina joined Nature Methods in April 2014.
nina.vogt@us.nature.com
Senior Editor: Rita Strack
Rita Strack obtained her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Chicago. While there, she worked with Benjamin Glick and Robert Keenan to engineer improved variants of the red fluorescent protein DsRed, and also studied the chemical mechanism of chromophore formation in DsRed. She continued her research as a postdoctoral fellow in Samie Jaffrey's laboratory at Weill Cornell Medical College, where she developed fluorescent reporters for live-cell imaging of RNA such as Spinach2. She handles imaging, microscopy and probes, along with protein and RNA biochemistry content for the journal. Rita joined Nature Methods in November 2014.
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Senior Editor: Lin Tang
Lin Tang obtained his Ph.D. in Computational Biology at the CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, studying transcriptome evolution. He was an Associate Editor for Nature Communications beginning in November 2016, and joined Nature Methods as a Senior Editor in September 2019. He handles genomics and computational methods for the journal. 
lin.tang@nature.com 
Associate Editor: Lei Tang
Lei Tang started her research in polymer science as an undergraduate at Tianjin University. She then moved to the U.S. for her Ph.D. work at Duke University, where she studied template-free ssDNA synthesis methods using terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase under the supervision of Stefan Zauscher. She continued her research as a postdoc in the Zauscher laboratory, where she developed a synthesis platform for nucleic acid-based polymeric drugs. She handles biomaterials, DNA nanotechnology, cancer genomics and metagenomics content for the journal. Lei joined Nature Methods in June 2018.
lei.tang@nature.com
Associate Editor: Arunima Singh
Arunima Singh studied biochemistry as an undergraduate, but a keen interest in programming led her to pursue a master's degree in bioinformatics at the University of Pune, India. She went on to obtain her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia, USA, where she used molecular modeling to analyze protein-carbohydrate interactions and developed a web tool for generating 3D structures of glycosaminoglycans, while working with Robert Woods. She did postdoctoral research at New York University on computational characterization of protein-protein interfaces and peptide mimetic-based inhibitor design. She handles computational biology, glycobiology and structural biology content for the journal. Arunima joined Nature Methods in June 2019.
arunima.singh@us.nature.com 
Technology Editor, news and features: Vivien Marx
Vivien Marx is a multi-platform journalist who covers many areas of science and technology development. She joined Nature Methods in 2012. Her work has appeared in Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Methods and elsewhere including The Economist, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal Europe, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, ZDF/arte, Science, The Lancet, Chemical & Engineering News, Newsweek/Daily Beast and New Scientist. She speaks fluent French and German. She studied biology and computing and holds a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fellow. Among her awards are the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Science Journalism and a Knight Foundation science journalism fellowship at MIT.
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