Efficiency through analysis
The May Editorial in Nature Methods discusses how the overall efficiency of research can be improved by comparative analysis of research method and tool performance. Although such analysis studies...
View ArticleWhere’s your ground truth?
When using or developing experimental and observational methods it is crucial to assess the method performance in an effort to ensure that the information it provides reflects reality. For experimental...
View ArticleHead-to-head comparisons of methods and tools
Choosing the best tool or method for a particular experiment can be a daunting task. Finding the right choice can mean much time and many resources and an improper one can lead to poor or inaccurate...
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Let’s give statistics the attention it deserves in biological research
This month we launch a new column ‘Points of Significance’ devoted to statistics, a topic of profound importance for biological research, but one that often doesn’t receive the attention it deserves....
View ArticleMicrobial sequencing at Nature Methods
Over the years, Nature Methods has published many methods to generate and analyze complex sequence data for microbial studies. We cover highlights from our papers below. Carl Woese set the stage for a...
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Big data jobs are out there – are you ready?
Jungwoo Ryoo, Pennsylvania State University Big data is increasingly becoming part of everyday life. Network security companies use it to improve the accuracy of their intrusion detection services....
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Seeking out stronger science: An incomplete, non-systematic list of resources
Our reporter Monya Baker runs through some of the statistical tools she found when writing her latest story. As I reported in a Nature feature published this week, I found more online courses that were...
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Opening doors to open data at #scidata16
Want to embrace open data but don’t know where to start? The tools are out there, says Matthew Edmonds. The Publishing Better Science through Better Data conference, or #scidata16 for short, took place...
View ArticleOmnity opens multilingual semantic searches up to academia
When preparing a grant or publication, where can you turn for new ideas? You can bounce ideas off colleagues, search PubMed and Web of Science for related literature, and maybe take a trip down Google...
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