Nature Methods, Published online: 10 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41592-026-03164-0

Towards a standardized file format and open-source analysis framework for Brillouin microscopy data

Nature Methods, Published online: 09 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41592-026-03168-w

Circuit manipulation with gap junctions

Nature Methods, Published online: 09 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41592-026-03147-1

Biological figures increasingly originate in the browser.

Nature Methods, Published online: 09 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41592-026-03166-y

Glycan atlasing in cells and tissues

Nature Methods, Published online: 09 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41592-026-03167-x

Mapping models of the tumor microenvironment

Nature Methods, Published online: 09 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41592-026-03169-9

Quantum image transmission

Nature Methods, Published online: 09 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41592-026-03161-3

Global collaboration and equitable access to reagents and data are fundamental to decentralized scientific research. This month we highlight some initiatives around the world aimed at democratizing research.

Nature Methods, Published online: 09 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41592-026-03145-3

Civil war, mass killings, humanitarian crises are reasons aplenty to abandon science. But geneticist Amna Khidir and Nile University–Sudan chose to continue in science.

Nature Methods, Published online: 09 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41592-026-03165-z

We share some recent staff updates at Nature Methods.

Nature Methods, Published online: 06 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41592-026-03142-6

This Registered Report presents the results of a study to evaluate the performance of sequence-based protein localization predictors on a curated test dataset of 3,814 human proteins.

Nature Methods, Published online: 03 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41592-026-03156-0

EviAnn surpasses existing genome annotation methods by leveraging gene expression and protein sequence homology evidence to achieve higher accuracy and efficiency.

Nature Methods, Published online: 01 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41592-026-03152-4

ClairS accurately detects somatic small variants using long-read sequencing data from tumor–normal pair samples.

Nature Methods, Published online: 30 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41592-026-03128-4

RNAbpFlow generates all-atom RNA conformational ensembles for single-chain RNA monomers without the explicit or implicit use of evolutionary information or homologous structural templates.

Nature Methods, Published online: 29 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41592-026-03151-5

Spatio-DARLIN combines the DARLIN mouse model with sequencing-based spatial transcriptomics to enable high-resolution spatial lineage tracing in mice.