Nature Protocols

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Protocols is 30. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Design and application of the transformer base editor in mammalian cells and mice1024
Author Correction: Z-REX: shepherding reactive electrophiles to specific proteins expressed tissue specifically or ubiquitously, and recording the resultant functional electrophile-induced redox respo481
Author Correction: cfSNV: a software tool for the sensitive detection of somatic mutations from cell-free DNA435
Cytosine and adenosine base editing in human pluripotent stem cells using transient reporters for editing enrichment353
ChromEMT: visualizing and reconstructing chromatin ultrastructure and 3D organization in situ331
Open-vessel polymerization of N-carboxyanhydride (NCA) for polypeptide synthesis313
Open thoracic surgical implantation of cardiac pacemakers in rats269
GLORI for absolute quantification of transcriptome-wide m6A at single-base resolution254
Isoform-specific RNA structure determination using Nano-DMS-MaP227
Routine culture and study of adult human brain cells from neurosurgical specimens226
Generating human bone marrow organoids for disease modeling and drug discovery196
Analysis of combinatorial CRISPR screens with the Orthrus scoring pipeline193
Generation of heart-forming organoids from human pluripotent stem cells190
Purification and functional characterization of novel human skeletal stem cell lineages185
Visualization of metabolites and microbes at high spatial resolution using MALDI mass spectrometry imaging and in situ fluorescence labeling179
Reproducible strategy for excisional skin-wound-healing studies in mice175
Protocols for clinical use at Nature Protocols171
Fabrication of thin-film electrodes and organic electrochemical transistors for neural implants163
Implantation of Neuropixels probes for chronic recording of neuronal activity in freely behaving mice and rats162
Generation and characterization of hair-bearing skin organoids from human pluripotent stem cells160
Three-dimensional human neural culture on a chip recapitulating neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration159
Quantitative molecular imaging using deep magnetic resonance fingerprinting159
SubCellBarCode: integrated workflow for robust spatial proteomics by mass spectrometry152
High-throughput fabrication of antimicrobial phage microgels and example applications in food decontamination145
Spatially resolved epigenome sequencing via Tn5 transposition and deterministic DNA barcoding in tissue144
Author Correction: Reliable detection of somatic mutations in solid tissues by laser-capture microdissection and low-input DNA sequencing134
Fabrication of electron tunneling probes for measuring single-protein conductance131
Head-mounted central venous access during optical recordings and manipulations of neural activity in mice130
Author Correction: Chromatin integration labeling for mapping DNA-binding proteins and modifications with low input129
Publisher Correction: Rapid reaction optimization by robust and economical quantitative benchtop 19F NMR spectroscopy121
Rapid reaction optimization by robust and economical quantitative benchtop 19F NMR spectroscopy119
How to isolate channel-forming membrane proteins using the E. coli expression system117
Small RNA structural biochemistry in a post-sequencing era113
Publisher Correction: In vivo pulse labeling of isochronic cohorts of cells in the central nervous system using FlashTag113
Photoimmunotechnology as a powerful biological tool for molecular-based elimination of target cells and microbes, including bacteria, fungi and viruses112
Tutorial: using nanoneedles for intracellular delivery110
Precise tracking of nanoparticles in plant roots108
Hyperosmolar blood–brain barrier opening using intra-arterial injection of hyperosmotic mannitol in mice under real-time MRI guidance108
Stable isotope tracing to assess tumor metabolism in vivo108
Bioengineering human intestinal mucosal grafts using patient-derived organoids, fibroblasts and scaffolds100
Chromatin accessibility profiling by ATAC-seq100
Sequential orthogonal assays for longitudinal and endpoint characterization of three-dimensional spheroids96
Generation of iPSC-derived human forebrain organoids assembling bilateral eye primordia96
mRNA lipid nanoparticle formulation, characterization and evaluation90
Honey bee functional genomics using symbiont-mediated RNAi87
Large-scale growth of C. elegans and isolation of membrane protein complexes87
Collections from Nature Protocols86
Gene expression and chromatin state mapped in space86
A ‘print–pause–print’ protocol for 3D printing microfluidics using multimaterial stereolithography86
Generation and long-term culture of human cerebellar organoids from pluripotent stem cells85
A versatile tissue-rolling technique for spatial-omics analyses of the entire murine gastrointestinal tract85
Unraveling cell–cell communication with NicheNet by inferring active ligands from transcriptomics data84
Structural connectome construction using constrained spherical deconvolution in multi-shell diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging83
Controlling the polarity of human gastrointestinal organoids to investigate epithelial biology and infectious diseases81
Establishment of human induced trophoblast stem cells via reprogramming of fibroblasts81
Preparation and quantitative analysis of multicenter luminescence materials for sensing function78
Preparation of selective organ-targeting (SORT) lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) using multiple technical methods for tissue-specific mRNA delivery78
Mitochondrial single-cell ATAC-seq for high-throughput multi-omic detection of mitochondrial genotypes and chromatin accessibility77
Comprehensive synthesis of Ti3C2Tx from MAX phase to MXene76
Publisher Correction: A reconstituted cell-free assay for the evaluation of the intrinsic activity of purified human ribosomes75
Divergent synthesis of amino acid-linked O-GalNAc glycan core structures74
Author Correction: Efficient and strand-specific profiling of replicating chromatin with enrichment and sequencing of protein-associated nascent DNA in mammalian cells74
Integrating genome-wide CRISPR screens and in silico drug profiling for targeted antidote development72
Inverse electron demand Diels–Alder click chemistry for pretargeted PET imaging and radioimmunotherapy69
Plant sperm cell sequencing for genome phasing and determination of meiotic crossover points69
High-throughput single-cell transcriptomics of bacteria using combinatorial barcoding68
Genome-wide quantification of transcription factor binding at single-DNA-molecule resolution using methyl-transferase footprinting66
Scalable tissue labeling and clearing of intact human organs65
All-optical interrogation of neural circuits in behaving mice65
Surface nanocoating of bacteria as a versatile platform to develop living therapeutics65
Chemometric analysis in Raman spectroscopy from experimental design to machine learning–based modeling64
A bifunctional molecule-assisted synthesis of mimics for use in probing the ubiquitination system62
Electrochemical molecular intercalation and exfoliation of solution-processable two-dimensional crystals62
An in vitro batch fermentation protocol for studying the contribution of food to gut microbiota composition and functionality62
Web-based multi-omics integration using the Analyst software suite62
In vitro reconstitution of COPII vesicles from Arabidopsis thaliana suspension-cultured cells62
CONIPHER: a computational framework for scalable phylogenetic reconstruction with error correction62
Author Correction: Capture-C: a modular and flexible approach for high-resolution chromosome conformation capture62
Use of synthetic circular RNA spike-ins (SynCRS) for normalization of circular RNA sequencing data61
A guide to precise measurements of isotope abundance by ESI-Orbitrap MS61
Genome-wide analysis of the biophysical properties of chromatin and nuclear proteins in living cells with Hi-D60
A guide to building a low-cost centrifuge force microscope module for single-molecule force experiments59
Enhancing consistency in brain imaging research for population neuroimaging58
Sonication-assisted protein extraction improves proteomic detection of membrane-bound and DNA-binding proteins from tumor tissues56
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
Identification and validation of microbial biomarkers from cross-cohort datasets using xMarkerFinder52
Easy and accurate protein structure prediction using ColabFold52
Accurate determination of protein:ligand standard binding free energies from molecular dynamics simulations51
Design and simulation of DNA, RNA and hybrid protein–nucleic acid nanostructures with oxView51
GlYcoLISA: antigen-specific and subclass-specific IgG Fc glycosylation analysis based on an immunosorbent assay with an LC–MS readout50
Seed amplification assay for the detection of pathologic alpha-synuclein aggregates in cerebrospinal fluid50
Comprehensive microcrystal electron diffraction sample preparation for cryo-EM50
Capturing acyl–enzyme intermediates with genetically encoded 2,3-diaminopropionic acid for hydrolase substrate identification49
High-confidence and high-throughput quantification of synapse engulfment by oligodendrocyte precursor cells49
CellPhoneDB v5: inferring cell–cell communication from single-cell multiomics data49
Construction of complex bacteriogenic protocells from living material assembly49
Outcome devaluation as a method for identifying goal-directed behaviors in rats48
Droplet-based functional CRISPR screening of cell–cell interactions by SPEAC-seq48
Analyzing somatic mutations by single-cell whole-genome sequencing47
In vivo and ex vivo electrophysiological study of the mouse heart to characterize the cardiac conduction system, including atrial and ventricular vulnerability47
Optimal 13C NMR investigation of intrinsically disordered proteins at 1.2 GHz47
Constructing and interpreting volcano plots and activity maps to navigate homogeneous catalyst landscapes47
Spatial analysis of tissue immunity and vascularity by light sheet fluorescence microscopy46
Annotating genetic variants to target genes using H-MAGMA46
An optimized culture system for efficient derivation of porcine expanded potential stem cells from preimplantation embryos and by reprogramming somatic cells46
Applications of and considerations for using CRISPR–Cas9-mediated gene conversion systems in rodents44
Stabilization and structure determination of integral membrane proteins by termini restraining44
Author Correction: PepSeq: a fully in vitro platform for highly multiplexed serology using customizable DNA-barcoded peptide libraries44
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 editing44
Preparation and use of wireless reprogrammable multilateral optogenetic devices for behavioral neuroscience44
Use of deep learning to develop continuous-risk models for adverse event prediction from electronic health records44
Capture of the newly transcribed RNA interactome using click chemistry43
Thrombin generation test based on a 96-channel pipettor for evaluation of FXIa procoagulant activity in pharmaceuticals43
High-speed laser-scanning biological microscopy using FACED42
Standardized production of hPSC-derived cardiomyocyte aggregates in stirred spinner flasks42
Preparation of near-infrared AIEgen-active fluorescent probes for mapping amyloid-β plaques in brain tissues and living mice42
Whole-brain functional ultrasound imaging in awake head-fixed mice41
High-resolution in situ structure determination by cryo-electron tomography and subtomogram averaging using emClarity41
RNA sample optimization for cryo-EM analysis41
Surface photovoltage microscopy for mapping charge separation on photocatalyst particles41
CRISPR-Combo–mediated orthogonal genome editing and transcriptional activation for plant breeding41
Spatially resolved genome-wide joint profiling of epigenome and transcriptome with spatial-ATAC-RNA-seq and spatial-CUT&Tag-RNA-seq40
Fabrication of liquid cell for in situ transmission electron microscopy of electrochemical processes40
Physical dynamic double-network hydrogels as dressings to facilitate tissue repair40
YCharOS protocol for antibody validation39
Author Correction: Production and use of antigen tetramers to study antigen-specific B cells39
Addendum: Micro-CT acquisition and image processing to track and characterize pulmonary nodules in mice39
Co-fractionation–mass spectrometry to characterize native mitochondrial protein assemblies in mammalian neurons and brain39
Biomarker analysis from complex biofluids by an on-chip chemically modified light-controlled vertical nanopillar array device39
Direct analysis of biotransformations with mass spectrometry—DiBT-MS38
Mapping T cell dynamics to molecular profiles through behavior-guided transcriptomics38
Visualizing epigenetic modifications and their spatial proximities in single cells using three DNA-encoded amplifying FISH imaging strategies: BEA-FISH, PPDA-FISH and Cell-TALKING38
Simultaneous ribosome profiling of hundreds of microbes from the human microbiome37
Activation of mechanoluminescent nanotransducers by focused ultrasound enables light delivery to deep-seated tissue in vivo36
m6A-SAC-seq for quantitative whole transcriptome m6A profiling36
A multi-glycomic platform for the analysis of food carbohydrates36
Synthesis of N-heterocycles through alcohol dehydrogenative coupling35
A proposed framework to evaluate the quality and reliability of targeted metabolomics assays from the UK Consortium on Metabolic Phenotyping (MAP/UK)35
A detailed guide to assessing genome assembly based on long-read sequencing data using Inspector34
Luciferase- and HaloTag-based reporter assays to measure small-molecule-induced degradation pathway in living cells34
Generation of ‘semi-guided’ cortical organoids with complex neural oscillations34
DARLIN mouse for in vivo lineage tracing at high efficiency and clonal diversity34
Universal platform for the generation of thermostabilized GPCRs that crystallize in LCP33
Protocols and risks: when less is more33
Fabrication and use of silicon hollow-needle arrays to achieve tissue nanotransfection in mouse tissue in vivo33
A clinically relevant model of focal embolic cerebral ischemia by thrombus and thrombolysis in rhesus monkeys33
A consensus platform for antibody characterization33
The HADDOCK2.4 web server for integrative modeling of biomolecular complexes32
Tutorial: a guide to diffusion MRI and structural connectomics32
Graphene–molecule–graphene single-molecule junctions to detect electronic reactions at the molecular scale32
Determining chromatin architecture with Micro Capture-C32
Purification of mammalian telomeric DNA for single-molecule analysis32
Testing physiologically relevant conditions in minimal inhibitory concentration assays31
Inferring cellular and molecular processes in single-cell data with non-negative matrix factorization using Python, R and GenePattern Notebook implementations of CoGAPS31
A new era begins at Nature Protocols31
Photothermal nanofiber-mediated photoporation for gentle and efficient intracellular delivery of macromolecules31
Patient-derived and mouse endo-ectocervical organoid generation, genetic manipulation and applications to model infection31
Pan-evolutionary and regulatory genome architecture delineated by an integrated macro- and microsynteny approach31
Generic acquisition protocol for quantitative MRI of the spinal cord31
Deepometry, a framework for applying supervised and weakly supervised deep learning to imaging cytometry30
BAR-Seq clonal tracking of gene-edited cells30
Preparation, maintenance and propagation of synchronous cultures of photoactive Chlamydomonas cells30
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