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  1. 85 million cells — and counting — at your fingertips

    Article • Nature, April 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  2. No installation required: how WebAssembly is changing scientific computing

    Article • Nature, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  3. AI and science: what 1,600 researchers think

    Article • Nature, September 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  4. From better bridges to more efficient cars: how pocket calculators changed the world

    Article • Nature, August 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  5. How to make your scientific data accessible, discoverable and useful

    Article • Nature, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  6. Six tips for better coding with ChatGPT

    Article • Nature, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  7. The sleight-of-hand trick that can simplify scientific computing

    Article • Nature, May 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  8. Smart software untangles gene regulation in cells

    Article • Nature, September 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  9. A graphics toolkit for visualizing genome data

    Article • Nature, August 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  10. Six tips for better spreadsheets

    Article • Nature, August 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  11. Cut the tyranny of copy-and-paste with these coding tools

    Article • Nature, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  12. The giant plan to track diversity in research journals

    Article • Nature, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  13. How to fix your scientific coding errors

    Article • Nature, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  14. Terra takes the pain out of ‘omics’ computing in the cloud

    Article • Nature, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  15. Python power-up: new image tool visualizes complex data

    Article • Nature, December 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  16. How to make your research reproducible

    Article • Nature, October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  17. Single-cell proteomics takes centre stage

    Article • Nature, September 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  18. Reactive, reproducible, collaborative: computational notebooks evolve

    Article • Nature, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  19. Five reasons why researchers should learn to love the command line

    Article • Nature, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  20. Ten computer codes that transformed science

    Article • Nature, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  21. Sliced, diced and digested: AI-generated science ready in minutes

    Article • Nature, December 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  22. Why scientists are turning to Rust

    Article • Nature, December 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  23. tl;dr: this AI sums up research papers in a sentence

    Article • Nature, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  24. Streamline your writing — and collaborations — with these reference managers

    Article • Nature, September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  25. Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run?

    Article • Nature, August 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  26. Alexa, do science! Voice-activated assistants hit the lab bench

    Article • Nature, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  27. The software that powers scientific illustration

    Article • Nature, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  28. Synchronized editing: the future of collaborative writing

    Article • Nature, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  29. Mischief-making bots attacked my scientific survey

    Article • Nature, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  30. Make code accessible with these cloud services

    Article • Nature, November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  31. The microscope makers putting ever-larger biological samples under the spotlight

    Article • Nature, November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  32. Workflow systems turn raw data into scientific knowledge

    Article • Nature, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  33. Starfish enterprise: finding RNA patterns in single cells

    Article • Nature, August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  34. Julia: come for the syntax, stay for the speed

    Article • Nature, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  35. The computational protein designers

    Article • Nature, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  36. The new techniques revealing the varied shapes of chromatin

    Article • Nature, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  37. 11 ways to avert a data-storage disaster

    Article • Nature, April 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  38. A simple approach to dating bones

    Article • Nature, April 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  39. Pioneering ‘live-code’ article allows scientists to play with each other’s results

    Article • Nature, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  40. The race for enzymatic DNA synthesis heats up

    Article • Nature, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  41. Web service makes big data available to neuroscientists

    Article • Nature, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  42. Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice

    Article • Nature, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  43. Machine learning gets to grips with plankton challenge

    Article • Nature, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  44. A toolkit for data transparency takes shape

    Article • Nature, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  45. Software training in Antarctica

    Article • Nature, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  46. The hackers teaching old DNA sequencers new tricks

    Article • Nature, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  47. Map-making on a budget

    Article • Nature, June 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  48. Data visualization tools drive interactivity and reproducibility in online publishing

    Article • Nature, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  49. Plot a course through the genome

    Article • Nature, September 2017, Nature

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  50. Cell engineering: How to hack the genome

    Article • Nature, July 2017, Nature

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  51. Single-cell sequencing made simple

    Article • Nature, July 2017, Nature

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  52. Pocket laboratories

    Article • Nature, May 2017, Nature

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  53. The Internet of Things comes to the lab

    Article • Nature, January 2017, Nature

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  54. How scientists use Slack

    Article • Nature, December 2016, Nature

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  55. Democratic databases: science on GitHub

    Article • Nature, October 2016, Nature

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  56. ‘Kudos’ promises to help scientists promote their papers to new audiences

    Article • Nature, August 2016, Nature

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  57. THE QUEST TO DESIGN BETTER EXPERIMENTS

    Article • BioTechniques, July 2016, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  58. LIGHTING OUR MEMORIES

    Article • BioTechniques, June 2016, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  59. NIH dengue vaccine leaps into phase 3 studies

    Article • Nature Biotechnology, May 2016, Nature

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  60. The struggle with image glut

    Article • Nature, April 2016, Nature

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  61. DEMOCRATIZING MASS SPECTROMETRY

    Article • BioTechniques, April 2016, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  62. The manuscript-editing marketplace

    Article • Nature, March 2016, Nature

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  63. WHEN TWO IS BETTER THAN ONE

    Article • BioTechniques, February 2016, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  64. The code librarian

    Article • Nature, January 2016, Nature

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  65. Xenotransplantation makes a comeback

    Article • Nature Biotechnology, January 2016, Nature

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  66. Annotating the scholarly web

    Article • Nature, December 2015, Nature

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  67. THE BACTERIA AMONG US

    Article • BioTechniques, December 2015, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  68. Eight ways to clean a digital library

    Article • Nature, November 2015, Nature

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  69. MAKING SENSE OF OUR VARIATION

    Article • BioTechniques, November 2015, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  70. SINGLE MOLECULE ENZYMOLOGY FINDS ITS STRIDE

    Article • BioTechniques, October 2015, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  71. Biomedical research: Drug hunters wanted

    Article • Nature, August 2015, Nature

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  72. Lab-inventory management: Time to take stock

    Article • Nature, August 2015, Nature

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  73. MAPPING CHROMOSOME NEIGHBORHOODS

    Article • BioTechniques, June 2015, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  74. The trouble with reference rot

    Article • Nature, May 2015, Nature

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  75. GUIDING OUR PCR EXPERIMENTS

    Article • BioTechniques, May 2015, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  76. CRISPR/CAS FACES THE BIOETHICS SPOTLIGHT

    Article • BioTechniques, May 2015, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  77. THE IMMORTAL CHALLENGE

    Article • BioTechniques, April 2015, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  78. Rate that journal

    Article • Nature, March 2015, Nature

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  79. Programming: Pick up Python

    Article • Nature, February 2015, Nature

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  80. Spotlights on RecentJACSPublications

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, January 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  81. FINDING FLAVOR IN FOOD

    Article • BioTechniques, January 2015, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  82. MAPPING NEURAL CONNECTIONS

    Article • BioTechniques, November 2014, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  83. Molecular biology: Genetic touch-ups

    Article • Nature, October 2014, Nature

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  84. Scientific writing: the online cooperative

    Article • Nature, October 2014, Nature

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  85. CORRELATING LIGHT AND ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

    Article • BioTechniques, October 2014, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  86. OPTOGENETICS TURNS 10

    Article • BioTechniques, July 2014, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  87. CELL CULTURE'S SPIDER SILK ROAD

    Article • BioTechniques, June 2014, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  88. The Twisted Path to Pluripotency

    Article • BioTechniques, April 2014, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  89. The Antibody Challenge

    Article • BioTechniques, March 2014, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  90. Decoding protein structure, one femtosecond at a time

    Article • BioTechniques, February 2014, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  91. Seamlessly rewriting the lab cloning manual

    Article • BioTechniques, January 2014, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  92. BioTechniques:Celebrating 30 Years of Methods Development

    Article • BioTechniques, November 2013, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  93. Assume Nothing: The Tale of Circular RNA

    Article • BioTechniques, August 2013, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  94. How low can you go? Studying transcription at the single-cell level

    Article • BioTechniques, July 2013, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  95. Visiting “Noncodarnia”

    Article • BioTechniques, June 2013, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  96. The chemist in the kitchen

    Article • BioTechniques, May 2013, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  97. The New Genetic Engineering Toolbox

    Article • BioTechniques, April 2013, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  98. In vivo imaging: Raman-style

    Article • BioTechniques, March 2013, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  99. Finding the true $1000 genome

    Article • BioTechniques, February 2013, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  100. Pimp my spec!

    Article • BioTechniques, December 2012, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  101. Fresh views on DNA structure

    Article • BioTechniques, November 2012, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  102. Genome engineering: writing a better genome

    Article • BioTechniques, October 2012, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  103. Tearing the Top Off ‘Top-Down’ Proteomics

    Article • BioTechniques, August 2012, Future Science

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  104. The new molecular gastronomy, or, a gustatory tour of network analysis

    Article • BioTechniques, July 2012, Future Science

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  105. RNAi Therapeutics: The Teenage Years

    Article • BioTechniques, June 2012, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  106. Single-cell Genomics: Defining Microbiology's Dark Matter

    Article • BioTechniques, May 2012, Future Science

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  107. Go Cell, Go!

    Article • BioTechniques, April 2012, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  108. Microfluidics, macro-impacts

    Article • BioTechniques, March 2012, Future Science

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  109. Run your lab on dollars a day!

    Article • BioTechniques, March 2012, Future Science

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  110. Bridge funding: How to stay afloat

    Article • Nature, January 2012, Nature

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  111. Antibodies 2.0

    Article • BioTechniques, November 2011, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  112. The Ever Folding Protein Landscape

    Article • BioTechniques, October 2011, Future Science

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  113. Clinical science: Research and repair

    Article • Nature, August 2011, Nature

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  114. Curing Cell Lines

    Article • BioTechniques, August 2011, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  115. Copy Number Variants: Mapping the Genome’s ‘Land Mines’

    Article • BioTechniques, July 2011, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  116. Coding your way out of a problem

    Article • Nature Chemical Biology, June 2011, Nature

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  117. A STED-y route to commercialization

    Article • BioTechniques, June 2011, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  118. Metabolomics: Where seeing is believing

    Article • BioTechniques, May 2011, Future Science

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  119. What Lies Beneath: In Vivo Stem Cell Imaging

    Article • BioTechniques, April 2011, Future Science

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  120. The Human Proteome Project Takes Shape Down Under

    Article • BioTechniques, March 2011, Future Science

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  121. Making Contact with Sequencing's Fourth Generation

    Article • BioTechniques, February 2011, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  122. Bright Lights, Single Molecules

    Article • BioTechniques, December 2010, Informa UK (Informa Life Sciences)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  123. Cybersecurity: How safe are your data?

    Article • Nature, April 2010, Nature

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  124. Comparative proteomics study suggests germ-cell-derived stem cells can stand in for ESCs

    Article • Journal of Proteome Research, December 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  125. iTRAQ gets put to the test

    Article • Journal of Proteome Research, November 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  126. Novel twist on the biotin switch cracks endothelial cell S -nitrosoproteome

    Article • Journal of Proteome Research, October 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  127. Rites of (stem cell) passage

    Article • Journal of Proteome Research, May 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  128. Shrimp study exposes mechanisms of innate immunity

    Article • Journal of Proteome Research, March 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  129. Neuropeptidomics study profiles hypothalamic “nucleus”, individual cells

    Article • Journal of Proteome Research, November 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  130. A cool way to learn about climate change

    Article • Analytical Chemistry, November 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  131. Snake venomics uncoils venom composition, evolution

    Article • Journal of Proteome Research, August 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  132. A chemical killer unmasked

    Article • Analytical Chemistry, July 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  133. Identification of a c-myb attenuator-binding factor

    Article • Leukemia Research, February 2002, Elsevier

    Jeffrey M. Perkel

  134. Cloning of human and bovine homologs of SNF2/SWI2: a global activator of transcription in yeast S.cerevisiae

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 1992, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Jeffrey M. Perkel