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Brown seaweeds are multicellular eukaryotes that have been evolving independently of animals and plants for more than a billion years. The filamentous brown alga Ectocarpus has been used as a model to understand the biology of these enigmatic organisms and to shed light on a range of major questions, from the molecular basis of complex developmental patterns to the evolution of sex.
Peer review is at the heart of publishing scientific papers. In this first installment of a two-part Editorial, we explain how we manage the process at Nature Methods.
Collaborations between researchers and companies can progress swimmingly and teams quickly validate findings and mature methods. All too often, things can’t advance and the ‘Valley of Death’ looms. New ways to collaborate, underpinned by computational muscle, can help.