Cold Spring Harbor Protocols is an interdisciplinary community-led journal providing a definitive source of technique-related reviews and laboratory protocols in the life sciences. Each monthly issue includes review articles and robust and reliable protocols describing well-established techniques and cutting-edge approaches. All protocols are up-to-date and presented in a consistent, easy-to-follow format. The journal, indexed in Medline/PubMed, continues Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's tradition of over 60 years as a trusted source of laboratory methods and techniques.

Articles are by invitation only and commissioned as part of Collections by the journal’s Collection Editors, active researchers recognized as experts in their respective fields. Contributions are subjected to a multi-tier review process that ensures that all manuscripts meet our scientific and editorial standards, resulting in Collections that serve as comprehensive guides for the field they cover.

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols thus represents a continuously updated collection of authoritative reviews and reliable step-by-step protocols in the life sciences, a resource that helps researchers advance their work and fosters scientific reproducibility.

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Cory Abate-Shen (New York, USA) Dany Spencer Adams (Medford, USA) Peter D. Adams (Philadelphia, USA) Ammar Al-Chalabi (London, UK) Laura Almasy (San Antonio, USA) David C. Amberg (Syracuse, USA) Brenda Andrews (Toronto, CAN) Manuel Ares Jr. (Santa Cruz, USA) Michael Ashburner (Cambridge, UK)† Carlos F. Barbas III (San Diego, USA)† Ben A. Barres (Stanford, USA)† Richard R. Behringer (Houston, USA) Barbara Beltz (Wellesley, USA) Joanne Berger-Sweeney (Wellesley, USA) Charles Boone (Toronto, CAN) Martin Bootman (Milton Keynes, UK) Lionello Bossi (Gif-sur-Yvette, FR) Stephan Brenowitz (Ashburn, USA)† Grant W. Brown (Toronto, CAN) Anne Brunet (Stanford, USA) Geert Bultynck (Leuven, BEL) Daniel J. Burke (Charlottesville, USA) Dennis R. Burton (San Diego, USA) Andrew Camilli (Boston, USA) Michael F. Carey (Los Angeles, USA) Antony M. Carr (Brighton, UK) Lewis Chodosh (Philadelphia, USA) Trisha N. Davis (Seattle, USA) Carl W. Dieffenbach (Bethesda, USA) Jennifer Doudna (Berkeley, USA) Ian Duguid (Edinburgh, UK) Maitreya Dunham (Seattle, USA) Laura B. Duvall (New York, USA) Gabriela S. Dveksler (Bethesda, USA) Stanley Fields (Seattle, USA) Marc R. Freeman (Portland, USA)	Theodore Friedmann (San Diego, USA) Stacey B. Gabriel (Cambridge, USA) Marc Gartenberg (New Brunswick, USA) Marina Gertsenstein (Toronto, CAN) Jane Glazebrook (Saint Paul, USA) Robert D. Goldman (Evanston, USA) Erica A. Golemis (Philadelphia, USA) Robert M. Grainger (Charlottesville, USA) Agnes Grallert (Manchester, UK) Michael R. Green (Worcester, USA)† Edward A. Greenfield (Boston, USA) Angelika Gründling (London, UK) Taekjip Ha (Champaign, USA) Iain Hagan (Manchester, UK) Gregory J. Hannon (Cold Spring Harbor, USA) Richard M. Harland (Berkeley, USA) Ed Harlow (Boston, USA) R. Scott Hawley (Davis, USA)† Ellie S. Heckscher (Chicago, USA) Fritjof Helmchen (Zurich, SZ) Alexander D. Johnson (San Francisco, USA) Ricky Johnstone (East Melbourne, AU) Paul J. Kammermeier (Rochester, USA) Alex C. Keene (College Station, USA) Arthur Konnerth (Munich, GER) Robert E. Krumlauf (Kansas City, USA) Joshua LaBaer (Boston, USA) David P. Lane (Stockholm, SW) Rusty Lansford (Pasadena, USA) Leslie A. Leinwand (Boulder, USA) Michael Levin (Medford, USA) Andrew J. Link (Nashville, USA) Prashant Mali (San Diego, USA) Benjamin J. Matthews (Vancouver, CAN)	David W. Mount (Tucson, USA) Andras Nagy (Toronto, CAN) Kristina Vintersten Nagy (Toronto, CAN) Timothy W. Nilsen (Cleveland, USA) Paul Nurse (London, UK) Kenneth P. Olive (New York, USA) Virginia E. Papaioannou (New York, USA) Jan B. Parys (Leuven, BEL) Carol Ann Paul (Wellesley, USA)† Nipam Patel (Berkeley, USA) Craig L. Peterson (Worcester, USA) Katerina Politi (New Haven, USA) Paul R. Pryor (York, UK) Donald C. Rio (Berkeley, USA) John Rossi (Duarte, USA) David W. Russell (Dallas, USA) Joseph Sambrook (Melbourne, AU)† Jamie K. Scott (Burnaby, CA) Paul R. Selvin (Urbana-Champaign, USA) James Sharpe (Barcelona, SP) John Silke (Parkville, AU) Gregg J. Silverman (New York, USA) Richard J. Simpson (Melbourne, AU) Neelima Sinha (Davis, USA) Hazel L. Sive (Boston, USA) Stephen T. Smale (Los Angeles, USA) David L. Spector (Cold Spring Harbor, USA) J. Claiborne Stephens (New York, USA) Beth Stevens (Boston, USA) Jeffrey N. Strathern (Frederick, USA) William Sullivan (Santa Cruz, USA) Jason R. Swedlow (Dundee, UK) Scott Waddell (Oxford, UK) Detlef Weigel (Tübingen, GER) Michael P. Weiner (Guilford, USA) Mark J. West (Aarhus, DEN) Rachel O. Wong (Seattle, USA) David I. Yule (Rochester, USA) Rafael Yuste (New York, USA) Bing Zhang (Columbia, USA)
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