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As the field of chemical biology has grown, Nature Chemical Biology has expanded to reflect the diversity of science at the interface of chemistry and biology. Throughout this period, the editorial team has endeavored to publish leading research and thoughtful commentary across chemical biology and to present the field’s discoveries to the widest possible audience. As we enter our sixth volume,...

Editorial: Embracing Scrutiny

are accustomed to scrutiny such as experimental protocol reviews, oversight on research conduct, and critiques provided during the peer-review publication process. We especially anticipate the post-publication period during which others attempt to reproduce, validate , and then build on our work. All this scrutiny is basic to establishing the credibility of our findings. We therefore should not...

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Using model systems to gain a better understanding of human disease and the underlying biology is standard in biological research. The power of model systems, however, has never been so great as in recent years with the growing availability of a wealth of genomic data from a variety of animals and plants and the ever more-advanced tools for probing, classifying, and characterizing these resourc...