Nature MethodsPub Date : 2024-11-07DOI: 10.1038/s41592-024-02489-y
Michael Eisenstein
{"title":"Pushing the limits of MRI brain imaging","authors":"Michael Eisenstein","doi":"10.1038/s41592-024-02489-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41592-024-02489-y","url":null,"abstract":"A new generation of increasingly powerful magnets is dramatically extending the resolution, speed and analytical capabilities of magnetic resonance imaging for brain research.","PeriodicalId":18981,"journal":{"name":"Nature Methods","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":36.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-024-02489-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142595676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature MethodsPub Date : 2024-11-07DOI: 10.1038/s41592-024-02485-2
Lorenz A. Fenk, Felix Baier, Gilles Laurent
{"title":"The bearded dragon Pogona vitticeps","authors":"Lorenz A. Fenk, Felix Baier, Gilles Laurent","doi":"10.1038/s41592-024-02485-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41592-024-02485-2","url":null,"abstract":"The Australian bearded dragon is so called for its distinctive ‘beard’ of spiky scales that can darken and expand during social and defensive displays. This lizard has become a reptilian model system to study the evolution, function and dynamics of neurons and neural circuits (including during sleep) in the amniote brain.","PeriodicalId":18981,"journal":{"name":"Nature Methods","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":36.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142595732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature MethodsPub Date : 2024-11-07DOI: 10.1038/s41592-024-02509-x
Arunima Singh
{"title":"Multi-pass nanopore for single-molecule protein sequencing","authors":"Arunima Singh","doi":"10.1038/s41592-024-02509-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41592-024-02509-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18981,"journal":{"name":"Nature Methods","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":36.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142595714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature MethodsPub Date : 2024-11-07DOI: 10.1038/s41592-024-02531-z
{"title":"Microscopic art","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41592-024-02531-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41592-024-02531-z","url":null,"abstract":"With a pictorial Editorial this month, we celebrate the beauty of microscopy images.","PeriodicalId":18981,"journal":{"name":"Nature Methods","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":36.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-024-02531-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142595733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature MethodsPub Date : 2024-10-31DOI: 10.1038/s41592-024-02478-1
Milan Avila Clasen, Max Ruwolt, Cong Wang, Julia Ruta, Boris Bogdanow, Louise U Kurt, Zehong Zhang, Shuai Wang, Fabio C Gozzo, Tao Chen, Paulo C Carvalho, Diogo Borges Lima, Fan Liu
{"title":"Proteome-scale recombinant standards and a robust high-speed search engine to advance cross-linking MS-based interactomics.","authors":"Milan Avila Clasen, Max Ruwolt, Cong Wang, Julia Ruta, Boris Bogdanow, Louise U Kurt, Zehong Zhang, Shuai Wang, Fabio C Gozzo, Tao Chen, Paulo C Carvalho, Diogo Borges Lima, Fan Liu","doi":"10.1038/s41592-024-02478-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-024-02478-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Advancing data analysis tools for proteome-wide cross-linking mass spectrometry (XL-MS) requires ground-truth standards that mimic biological complexity. Here we develop well-controlled XL-MS standards comprising hundreds of recombinant proteins that are systematically mixed for cross-linking. We use one standard dataset to guide the development of Scout, a search engine for XL-MS with MS-cleavable cross-linkers. Using other, independent standard datasets and published datasets, we benchmark the performance of Scout and existing XL-MS software. We find that Scout offers an excellent combination of speed, sensitivity and false discovery rate control. The results illustrate how our large recombinant standard can support the development of XL-MS analysis tools and evaluation of XL-MS results.</p>","PeriodicalId":18981,"journal":{"name":"Nature Methods","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":36.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142558288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature MethodsPub Date : 2024-10-31DOI: 10.1038/s41592-024-02471-8
Alex R Lederer, Maxine Leonardi, Lorenzo Talamanca, Daniil M Bobrovskiy, Antonio Herrera, Colas Droin, Irina Khven, Hugo J F Carvalho, Alessandro Valente, Albert Dominguez Mantes, Pau Mulet Arabí, Luca Pinello, Felix Naef, Gioele La Manno
{"title":"Statistical inference with a manifold-constrained RNA velocity model uncovers cell cycle speed modulations.","authors":"Alex R Lederer, Maxine Leonardi, Lorenzo Talamanca, Daniil M Bobrovskiy, Antonio Herrera, Colas Droin, Irina Khven, Hugo J F Carvalho, Alessandro Valente, Albert Dominguez Mantes, Pau Mulet Arabí, Luca Pinello, Felix Naef, Gioele La Manno","doi":"10.1038/s41592-024-02471-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41592-024-02471-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Across biological systems, cells undergo coordinated changes in gene expression, resulting in transcriptome dynamics that unfold within a low-dimensional manifold. While low-dimensional dynamics can be extracted using RNA velocity, these algorithms can be fragile and rely on heuristics lacking statistical control. Moreover, the estimated vector field is not dynamically consistent with the traversed gene expression manifold. To address these challenges, we introduce a Bayesian model of RNA velocity that couples velocity field and manifold estimation in a reformulated, unified framework, identifying the parameters of an explicit dynamical system. Focusing on the cell cycle, we implement VeloCycle to study gene regulation dynamics on one-dimensional periodic manifolds and validate its ability to infer cell cycle periods using live imaging. We also apply VeloCycle to reveal speed differences in regionally defined progenitors and Perturb-seq gene knockdowns. Overall, VeloCycle expands the single-cell RNA sequencing analysis toolkit with a modular and statistically consistent RNA velocity inference framework.</p>","PeriodicalId":18981,"journal":{"name":"Nature Methods","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":36.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142558289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature MethodsPub Date : 2024-10-30DOI: 10.1038/s41592-024-02328-0
Gregory J Baker, Edward Novikov, Ziyuan Zhao, Tuulia Vallius, Janae A Davis, Jia-Ren Lin, Jeremy L Muhlich, Elizabeth A Mittendorf, Sandro Santagata, Jennifer L Guerriero, Peter K Sorger
{"title":"Quality control for single-cell analysis of high-plex tissue profiles using CyLinter.","authors":"Gregory J Baker, Edward Novikov, Ziyuan Zhao, Tuulia Vallius, Janae A Davis, Jia-Ren Lin, Jeremy L Muhlich, Elizabeth A Mittendorf, Sandro Santagata, Jennifer L Guerriero, Peter K Sorger","doi":"10.1038/s41592-024-02328-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41592-024-02328-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Tumors are complex assemblies of cellular and acellular structures patterned on spatial scales from microns to centimeters. Study of these assemblies has advanced dramatically with the introduction of high-plex spatial profiling. Image-based profiling methods reveal the intensities and spatial distributions of 20-100 proteins at subcellular resolution in 10<sup>3</sup>-10<sup>7</sup> cells per specimen. Despite extensive work on methods for extracting single-cell data from these images, all tissue images contain artifacts such as folds, debris, antibody aggregates, optical aberrations and image processing errors that arise from imperfections in specimen preparation, data acquisition, image assembly and feature extraction. Here we show that these artifacts dramatically impact single-cell data analysis, obscuring meaningful biological interpretation. We describe an interactive quality control software tool, CyLinter, that identifies and removes data associated with imaging artifacts. CyLinter greatly improves single-cell analysis, especially for archival specimens sectioned many years before data collection, such as those from clinical trials.</p>","PeriodicalId":18981,"journal":{"name":"Nature Methods","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":36.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142546485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}