Editorials

Structural biology advances have democratized access to biomolecular snapshots, but high standards must be maintained to ensure their utility.

Nature and the Nature journals start offering anonymity to authors during the peer-review process.

Chemical biology has much to contribute to the global effort to reduce hunger, improve food safety and support sustainable agriculture.

New insights into the regulatory mechanisms of protein folding and turnover are informing the development of chemical tools and small molecules to treat proteostasis disorders.

New computational and biochemical tools and informatic rules should spur research on a relatively underexplored class of molecules.

Big Data analytic tools will be invaluable for extracting meaning from microbiome data to enable new solutions to global health problems and provide new insights into microbiology.

Chemical biologists are advancing our understanding of light's role in the natural world and expanding its applications in the research lab.

Young scientists should use conference time to maximize exposure of and get feedback on their work and to establish contacts within their scientific community.

A collection of articles illustrates ways that synthetic biology tools and tactics both draw from and stimulate chemical biology research.

Opportunities abound for chemical biologists to contribute to global initiatives designed to unlock the secrets of the human brain.

Harnessing the immune system to treat disease will be facilitated by a greater understanding of the origins and roles of peptides in immunity.

Ensuring that your research accomplishments and interests are accessible online broadens the reach of your scientific work.

Increasing the reproducibility of translational and basic science research is a responsibility shared by the entire scientific community.

Applying a rigorous chemical biology approach to the selection and validation of clinical targets will increase the success of drug discovery initiatives.

Publication of a paper initiates the process of scientific exchange that requires the ongoing participation of authors.

Public-private partnerships can reinvigorate precompetitive scientific research and de-risk drug discovery programs to help them meet demand for better and safer therapies.

The Methods section of original research papers will be published online only starting in 2013.

The launch of the International Chemical Biology Society represents an important step for chemical biology.

The ENCODE project provides fundamental insights into the genome and large-scale science, inspiring future collaboration at the genomics–chemical biology interface.

We are changing the way we evaluate papers to ensure timely dissemination of chemical biology research.