Nature Protocols

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Protocols is 10. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Author Correction: Z-REX: shepherding reactive electrophiles to specific proteins expressed tissue specifically or ubiquitously, and recording the resultant functional electrophile-induced redox respo1206
Author Correction: cfSNV: a software tool for the sensitive detection of somatic mutations from cell-free DNA676
Inducible CRISPR–Cas9 screening platform to interrogate non-proliferative cellular states548
Isoform-specific RNA structure determination using Nano-DMS-MaP520
Design and application of the transformer base editor in mammalian cells and mice431
Routine culture and study of adult human brain cells from neurosurgical specimens406
Open thoracic surgical implantation of cardiac pacemakers in rats396
Spontaneous and experimental models of lymph node metastasis305
Expansion of human pluripotent stem cell–induced nephron progenitor cells (iNPCs) and the generation of nephron organoids from iNPCs305
Reproducible strategy for excisional skin-wound-healing studies in mice276
GLORI for absolute quantification of transcriptome-wide m6A at single-base resolution274
Purification and functional characterization of novel human skeletal stem cell lineages269
Open-vessel polymerization of N-carboxyanhydride (NCA) for polypeptide synthesis206
Visualization of metabolites and microbes at high spatial resolution using MALDI mass spectrometry imaging and in situ fluorescence labeling204
ChromEMT: visualizing and reconstructing chromatin ultrastructure and 3D organization in situ204
Generating human bone marrow organoids for disease modeling and drug discovery201
Author Correction: Reliable detection of somatic mutations in solid tissues by laser-capture microdissection and low-input DNA sequencing190
Head-mounted central venous access during optical recordings and manipulations of neural activity in mice187
Author Correction: Chromatin integration labeling for mapping DNA-binding proteins and modifications with low input186
Publisher Correction: Rapid reaction optimization by robust and economical quantitative benchtop 19F NMR spectroscopy183
Preparation and biomedical applications of single-metal atom catalysts169
Publisher Correction: In vivo pulse labeling of isochronic cohorts of cells in the central nervous system using FlashTag161
Sonicated inks and focused-ultrasound writing enable deep-penetration acoustic volumetric printing149
Metabolomics using anion-exchange chromatography mass spectrometry for the analysis of cells, tissues and biofluids146
Photoimmunotechnology as a powerful biological tool for molecular-based elimination of target cells and microbes, including bacteria, fungi and viruses146
Small RNA structural biochemistry in a post-sequencing era145
Expansion and fluctuations-enhanced microscopy for nanoscale molecular profiling of cells and tissues138
Fabrication of thin-film electrodes and organic electrochemical transistors for neural implants133
SubCellBarCode: integrated workflow for robust spatial proteomics by mass spectrometry132
Three-dimensional human neural culture on a chip recapitulating neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration128
How to isolate channel-forming membrane proteins using the E. coli expression system123
Precise tracking of nanoparticles in plant roots116
Bioengineering human intestinal mucosal grafts using patient-derived organoids, fibroblasts and scaffolds114
High-throughput fabrication of antimicrobial phage microgels and example applications in food decontamination113
Spatially resolved epigenome sequencing via Tn5 transposition and deterministic DNA barcoding in tissue108
Fabrication of electron tunneling probes for measuring single-protein conductance107
Quantitative molecular imaging using deep magnetic resonance fingerprinting104
Rapid reaction optimization by robust and economical quantitative benchtop 19F NMR spectroscopy104
Generation and characterization of hair-bearing skin organoids from human pluripotent stem cells103
Large-scale growth of C. elegans and isolation of membrane protein complexes97
Chromatin accessibility profiling by ATAC-seq97
Collections from Nature Protocols96
A practical guide to identifying associations between tandem repeats and complex human traits using consensus genotypes from multiple tools95
Gene expression and chromatin state mapped in space94
Sequential orthogonal assays for longitudinal and endpoint characterization of three-dimensional spheroids93
Scalable growth of vertical graphene nanosheets by thermal chemical vapor deposition87
Generation of iPSC-derived human forebrain organoids assembling bilateral eye primordia85
mRNA lipid nanoparticle formulation, characterization and evaluation84
Generation and long-term culture of human cerebellar organoids from pluripotent stem cells84
Mitochondrial single-cell ATAC-seq for high-throughput multi-omic detection of mitochondrial genotypes and chromatin accessibility82
A ‘print–pause–print’ protocol for 3D printing microfluidics using multimaterial stereolithography82
Achieving transient and reversible optical transparency in live mice with tartrazine82
Fibrous polyisocyanide hydrogels for 3D cell culture applications79
A versatile tissue-rolling technique for spatial-omics analyses of the entire murine gastrointestinal tract78
Sonoafterglow nanoprobes for deep-tissue imaging of peroxynitrite78
Expansion of human hepatocytes and their application in three-dimensional culture and genetic manipulation77
Unraveling cell–cell communication with NicheNet by inferring active ligands from transcriptomics data76
Establishment of human induced trophoblast stem cells via reprogramming of fibroblasts76
Comprehensive synthesis of Ti3C2Tx from MAX phase to MXene74
Honey bee functional genomics using symbiont-mediated RNAi72
Structural connectome construction using constrained spherical deconvolution in multi-shell diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging71
Preparation and quantitative analysis of multicenter luminescence materials for sensing function70
Identification of immunogenic commensal antigens using phage display69
Publisher Correction: A reconstituted cell-free assay for the evaluation of the intrinsic activity of purified human ribosomes69
Manufacturing synthetic viscoelastic antigen-presenting cells for immunotherapy69
Preparation of selective organ-targeting (SORT) lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) using multiple technical methods for tissue-specific mRNA delivery69
Integrating genome-wide CRISPR screens and in silico drug profiling for targeted antidote development67
A bifunctional molecule-assisted synthesis of mimics for use in probing the ubiquitination system66
Plant sperm cell sequencing for genome phasing and determination of meiotic crossover points64
Scalable tissue labeling and clearing of intact human organs64
CONIPHER: a computational framework for scalable phylogenetic reconstruction with error correction63
High-throughput single-cell transcriptomics of bacteria using combinatorial barcoding63
All-optical interrogation of neural circuits in behaving mice63
Surface nanocoating of bacteria as a versatile platform to develop living therapeutics62
Electrochemical molecular intercalation and exfoliation of solution-processable two-dimensional crystals61
Divergent synthesis of amino acid-linked O-GalNAc glycan core structures61
Use of synthetic circular RNA spike-ins (SynCRS) for normalization of circular RNA sequencing data60
Web-based multi-omics integration using the Analyst software suite60
Author Correction: Capture-C: a modular and flexible approach for high-resolution chromosome conformation capture60
Enhancing consistency in brain imaging research for population neuroimaging59
Sonication-assisted protein extraction improves proteomic detection of membrane-bound and DNA-binding proteins from tumor tissues59
Filter-aided expansion proteomics for the spatial analysis of single cells and organelles in FFPE tissue samples59
Integrating optical neuroscience tools into touchscreen operant systems56
Identification and validation of microbial biomarkers from cross-cohort datasets using xMarkerFinder56
Genome-wide analysis of the biophysical properties of chromatin and nuclear proteins in living cells with Hi-D56
A guide to precise measurements of isotope abundance by ESI-Orbitrap MS55
A scalable protocol for the radiosynthesis of clinical grade lutetium-177-labeled theranostic agents54
Profiling native pulmonary basement membrane stiffness using atomic force microscopy54
Enzyme-free targeted DNA demethylation using CRISPR–dCas9-based steric hindrance to identify DNA methylation marks causal to altered gene expression54
GlYcoLISA: antigen-specific and subclass-specific IgG Fc glycosylation analysis based on an immunosorbent assay with an LC–MS readout53
Design and simulation of DNA, RNA and hybrid protein–nucleic acid nanostructures with oxView53
A guide to building a low-cost centrifuge force microscope module for single-molecule force experiments53
Comprehensive microcrystal electron diffraction sample preparation for cryo-EM52
In vitro reconstitution of COPII vesicles from Arabidopsis thaliana suspension-cultured cells52
Seed amplification assay for the detection of pathologic alpha-synuclein aggregates in cerebrospinal fluid51
Easy and accurate protein structure prediction using ColabFold51
In vivo and ex vivo electrophysiological study of the mouse heart to characterize the cardiac conduction system, including atrial and ventricular vulnerability50
Accurate determination of protein:ligand standard binding free energies from molecular dynamics simulations50
Capturing acyl–enzyme intermediates with genetically encoded 2,3-diaminopropionic acid for hydrolase substrate identification50
An optimized culture system for efficient derivation of porcine expanded potential stem cells from preimplantation embryos and by reprogramming somatic cells50
Spatial analysis of tissue immunity and vascularity by light sheet fluorescence microscopy49
Construction of complex bacteriogenic protocells from living material assembly48
Preparation and use of wireless reprogrammable multilateral optogenetic devices for behavioral neuroscience48
High-confidence and high-throughput quantification of synapse engulfment by oligodendrocyte precursor cells48
Annotating genetic variants to target genes using H-MAGMA48
Analyzing somatic mutations by single-cell whole-genome sequencing47
Purifying recombinant proteins from Nicotiana benthamiana for structural studies44
Optimal 13C NMR investigation of intrinsically disordered proteins at 1.2 GHz44
A graphic and command line protocol for quick and accurate comparisons of protein and nucleic acid structures with US-align44
CRISPR screens in human neural organoids and assembloids44
Droplet-based functional CRISPR screening of cell–cell interactions by SPEAC-seq43
Directional conjugation of monoclonal antibodies to nanoparticles using metal-free click chemistry43
Outcome devaluation as a method for identifying goal-directed behaviors in rats41
CellPhoneDB v5: inferring cell–cell communication from single-cell multiomics data40
Constructing and interpreting volcano plots and activity maps to navigate homogeneous catalyst landscapes40
RNA sample optimization for cryo-EM analysis39
Author Correction: PepSeq: a fully in vitro platform for highly multiplexed serology using customizable DNA-barcoded peptide libraries39
Preparation of near-infrared AIEgen-active fluorescent probes for mapping amyloid-β plaques in brain tissues and living mice38
CRISPR-Combo–mediated orthogonal genome editing and transcriptional activation for plant breeding38
Microfluidic gradients create a stem cell model of the human central nervous system38
Fabrication of liquid cell for in situ transmission electron microscopy of electrochemical processes38
Printed photonic crystal biochips for rapid and sensitive detection of biomarkers in various body fluids37
Stabilization and structure determination of integral membrane proteins by termini restraining37
High-resolution in situ structure determination by cryo-electron tomography and subtomogram averaging using emClarity36
Circular Vectors as an efficient, fully synthetic, cell-free approach for preparing small circular DNA as a plasmid substitute for guide RNA expression in CRISPR–Cas9 genome editing36
Standardized production of hPSC-derived cardiomyocyte aggregates in stirred spinner flasks36
Surface photovoltage microscopy for mapping charge separation on photocatalyst particles36
Derivation, expansion and cryopreservation of primary fetal organoids from second and third trimester human amniotic fluid cells35
Author Correction: Production and use of antigen tetramers to study antigen-specific B cells35
High-throughput multiplex voltage-clamp/current-clamp evaluation of acutely isolated neurons35
Physical dynamic double-network hydrogels as dressings to facilitate tissue repair35
Using tunable hydrogel microparticles to measure cellular forces34
YCharOS protocol for antibody validation34
Multilevel characterization of genome editor nuclease activity with BreakTag33
Bioengineering mini-colons for ex vivo colorectal cancer research33
Co-fractionation–mass spectrometry to characterize native mitochondrial protein assemblies in mammalian neurons and brain33
Addendum: Micro-CT acquisition and image processing to track and characterize pulmonary nodules in mice33
Mapping T cell dynamics to molecular profiles through behavior-guided transcriptomics33
Synthesis of N-heterocycles through alcohol dehydrogenative coupling32
A multi-glycomic platform for the analysis of food carbohydrates32
m6A-SAC-seq for quantitative whole transcriptome m6A profiling32
Activation of mechanoluminescent nanotransducers by focused ultrasound enables light delivery to deep-seated tissue in vivo31
Visualizing epigenetic modifications and their spatial proximities in single cells using three DNA-encoded amplifying FISH imaging strategies: BEA-FISH, PPDA-FISH and Cell-TALKING31
Determining chromatin architecture with Micro Capture-C30
Improving accuracy and reproducibility of mass spectrometry characterization of protein coronas on nanoparticles30
Luciferase- and HaloTag-based reporter assays to measure small-molecule-induced degradation pathway in living cells30
Direct analysis of biotransformations with mass spectrometry—DiBT-MS30
Biomarker analysis from complex biofluids by an on-chip chemically modified light-controlled vertical nanopillar array device30
Generation of ‘semi-guided’ cortical organoids with complex neural oscillations30
Spatially resolved genome-wide joint profiling of epigenome and transcriptome with spatial-ATAC-RNA-seq and spatial-CUT&Tag-RNA-seq30
Nano3P-seq: charting the coding and noncoding transcriptome at single-molecule resolution29
A proposed framework to evaluate the quality and reliability of targeted metabolomics assays from the UK Consortium on Metabolic Phenotyping (MAP/UK)29
Tutorial: a guide to diffusion MRI and structural connectomics29
The HADDOCK2.4 web server for integrative modeling of biomolecular complexes29
A consensus platform for antibody characterization29
A detailed guide to assessing genome assembly based on long-read sequencing data using Inspector29
Universal platform for the generation of thermostabilized GPCRs that crystallize in LCP29
Graphene–molecule–graphene single-molecule junctions to detect electronic reactions at the molecular scale29
Purification of mammalian telomeric DNA for single-molecule analysis29
DARLIN mouse for in vivo lineage tracing at high efficiency and clonal diversity29
A clinically relevant model of focal embolic cerebral ischemia by thrombus and thrombolysis in rhesus monkeys29
Preparation, maintenance and propagation of synchronous cultures of photoactive Chlamydomonas cells28
Bioconjugates of photon-upconversion nanoparticles for cancer biomarker detection and imaging28
Photothermal nanofiber-mediated photoporation for gentle and efficient intracellular delivery of macromolecules28
Pan-evolutionary and regulatory genome architecture delineated by an integrated macro- and microsynteny approach28
Patient-derived and mouse endo-ectocervical organoid generation, genetic manipulation and applications to model infection28
NanoVar: a comprehensive workflow for structural variant detection to uncover the genome’s hidden patterns28
scGPT: end-to-end protocol for fine-tuned retinal cell type annotation28
A new era begins at Nature Protocols28
Labeling, isolation and characterization of cell-type-specific exosomes derived from mouse skin tissue28
Solution-based self-assembly synthesis of two-dimensional-ordered mesoporous conducting polymer nanosheets with versatile properties28
Inferring cellular and molecular processes in single-cell data with non-negative matrix factorization using Python, R and GenePattern Notebook implementations of CoGAPS28
The OBSERVE guidelines provide refinement criteria for rodent oncology models27
Synthesis of ordered mesoporous metal oxides by solvent evaporation-induced cooperative assembly27
Designing and executing prime editing experiments in mammalian cells27
Proteome-wide profiling of S-nitrosylated proteins using the SNOTRAP probe and mass spectrometry-based detection27
Generation of quality-controlled SARS-CoV-2 variant stocks27
Molecular recording using DNA Typewriter26
Integration of diverse bioactivity data into the Chemical Checker compound universe26
Ultra-fast supercritically solvothermal polymerization for large single-crystalline covalent organic frameworks26
Generation and characterization of vestibular inner ear organoids from human pluripotent stem cells26
Bio-orthogonal tuning of matrix properties during 3D cell culture to induce morphological and phenotypic changes26
A guide to reverse metabolomics—a framework for big data discovery strategy26
Facile synthesis of mesoporous TiO2 architectures with tunable configurations and nanometer precision26
In vivo ultrasound-induced luminescence imaging via trianthracene derivatives nanomaterials26
Visualizing infection by single positive-sense RNA viruses using virus infection real-time imaging (VIRIM)26
The use of methanol as a C1 building block25
Scanorama: integrating large and diverse single-cell transcriptomic datasets25
Precise mutagenesis in zebrafish using cytosine base editors25
A versatile toolkit for drug metabolism studies with GNPS2: from drug development to clinical monitoring25
Measuring key human carbohydrate digestive enzyme activities using high-performance anion-exchange chromatography with pulsed amperometric detection25
Author Correction: Constructing a cost-efficient, high-throughput and high-quality single-molecule localization microscope for super-resolution imaging24
Reprogramming fibroblast into human iBlastoids24
Detection of intramolecular protein dynamics on nanosecond-to-microsecond timescales by nanoparticle-assisted NMR spin relaxation (NASR)24
Mapping protein–RNA binding in plants with individual-nucleotide-resolution UV cross-linking and immunoprecipitation (plant iCLIP2)24
In vivo identification of astrocyte and neuron subproteomes by proximity-dependent biotinylation24
Real-time imaging of axonal membrane protein life cycles24
Tutorial: design, production and testing of oncolytic viruses for cancer immunotherapy24
Retina-specific laminin-based generation of photoreceptor progenitors from human pluripotent stem cells under xeno-free and chemically defined conditions23
A puromycin-dependent activity-based sensing probe for histochemical staining of hydrogen peroxide in cells and animal tissues23
Selecting aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase/tRNA pairs for efficient genetic encoding of noncanonical amino acids into proteins23
XomicsToModel: omics data integration and generation of thermodynamically consistent metabolic models22
Click chemistry: a transformative technology in nuclear medicine22
Precise kilobase-scale genomic insertions in mammalian cells using PASTE22
Correlative light and electron microscopy for human brain and other biological models22
Scale-up approach for the preparation of magnetic ferrite nanocubes and other shapes with benchmark performance for magnetic hyperthermia applications22
Reply to: Byproducts in the synthesis of [68Ga]Ga-PSMA-1122
Optimizing the Cell Painting assay for image-based profiling22
Report Approval for Transcranial Electrical Stimulation (RATES): expert recommendation based on a Delphi consensus study21
Versatile synthesis of uniform mesoporous superparticles from stable monomicelle units21
Engineered human blood–brain barrier microfluidic model for vascular permeability analyses21
A workflow for the development of template-assisted membrane crystallization downstream processing for monoclonal antibody purification21
Native MS-guided lipidomics to define endogenous lipid microenvironments of eukaryotic receptors and transporters21
Formulation of two lipid-based membrane–core nanoparticles for FOLFOX combination therapy20
Preparation of AIEgen-based near-infrared afterglow luminescence nanoprobes for tumor imaging and image-guided tumor resection20
A multimodal imaging pipeline to decipher cell-specific metabolic functions and tissue microenvironment dynamics20
Pooled genetic perturbation screens with image-based phenotypes20
Author Correction: Life-long functional regeneration of in vivo airway epithelium by the engraftment of airway basal stem cells20
Reconstructing phylogenetic trees from genome-wide somatic mutations in clonal samples20
Modeling heart rhythm using human engineered heart tissues20
A bioswitchable delivery system for microRNA therapeutics based on a tetrahedral DNA nanostructure20
Fabrication and characterization of optoelectronic in-sensor computing devices20
Extracting and characterizing microplastics and nanoplastics from environmental samples20
Improved sampling and DNA extraction procedures for microbiome analysis in food-processing environments19
Transcriptome-wide measurement of poly(A) tail length and composition at subnanogram total RNA sensitivity by PAIso-seq19
Neural cell isolation from adult macaques for high-throughput analyses and neurosphere cultures19
Isocyanide-based multi-component reactions for carrier-free and carrier-bound covalent immobilization of enzymes19
Subretinal injection in mice to study retinal physiology and disease19
Consensus guidelines for the use of concurrent TMS-fMRI in cognitive and clinical neuroscience19
Induction of human trophoblast stem cells19
Absolute quantification of prokaryotes in the microbiome by 16S rRNA qPCR or ddPCR19
Human primordial germ cell-like cells specified from resetting precursors develop in human hindgut organoids18
OptADMET: a web-based tool for substructure modifications to improve ADMET properties of lead compounds18
Comprehensive multiscale analysis of lactate metabolic dynamics in vitro and in vivo using highly responsive biosensors18
Multidimensional analysis of host–virus interactions using the virus-encoded CRISPR-based direct readout system (VECOS)18
Multiplexed chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing for quantitative study of histone modifications and chromatin factors18
Author Correction: Fractionation of lignocellulosic biomass to produce uncondensed aldehyde-stabilized lignin18
Transcriptomic profiling of individual bacteria by MATQ-seq18
Assembly of a stem cell-derived human postimplantation embryo model18
Preamplification-free viral RNA diagnostics with single-nucleotide resolution using MARVE, an origami paper-based colorimetric nucleic acid test17
A flow cytometry-based protocol for syngenic isolation of neurovascular unit cells from mouse and human tissues17
Streamlining spatial omics data analysis with Pysodb17
Selective footprinting of 40S and 80S ribosome subpopulations (Sel-TCP-seq) to study translation and its control17
Simple, efficient and thorough shotgun proteomic analysis with PatternLab V17
A practical guide to machine-learning scoring for structure-based virtual screening17
Controlled synthesis of noble metal aerogels mediated by salts17
High-resolution topographic surveying and change detection with the iPhone LiDAR17
Metagenome-assembled genome extraction and analysis from microbiomes using KBase17
Prototype mouse models for researching SEND-based mRNA delivery and gene therapy16
Hyperspectral confocal imaging for high-throughput readout and analysis of bio-integrated microlasers16
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