Methods publishes original review and research articles that cover emerging methodology in many areas of life and health sciences. The research areas covered by Methods include, but are not limited to,

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Editor-in-Chief
Kenneth W. Adolph
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Editor
Sun Kim
Seoul National University Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Brian McFarlin
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States
Michelle Peckham
University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Editorial Board
Jurg Bahler
University College London, London, United Kingdom
Vytas Bankaitis
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Toni Cathomen
University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Jonathan Chaires
University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States
David Corey
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER, Dallas, Texas, United States
Nancy Cox
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Erica A. Golemis, PhD
Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Allan Jacobson
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Ulf Landegren
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
David M.J. Lilley
University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
James Manley
Columbia University, New York, New York, United States
Lynne Maquat
University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States
Tom Misteli, PhD
National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Stephen Neidle
University College London, London, United Kingdom
Michael Pfaffl
Technical University of Munich Chair of Animal Physiology and Immunology, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
Cenk Sahinalp
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Thomas Schmittgen
University of Florida Health Science Center, Gainesville, Florida, United States
Marc H.V. Van Regenmortel
Higher School of Biotechnology Strasbourg, Illkirch, France
Johannes Walter
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Nils Walter
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Wei Wang
University of California San Diego Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, La Jolla, California, United States
Limsoon Wong
National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Jerry Workman
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States