When I do the research of optogenetics, I find an extraordinary list called ‘Method of the Year’ by Nature Methods from 2007 till now
There are events of the year, persons of the year, images of the year…. We could not resist: why not a Method of the Year?
Methods are a driving force of scientific progress. We think they should be celebrated as such. So the editors set out, a couple of months ago, to select the most notable method of 2007 — not a method just off the inventor’s bench but rather one that came into its own in 2007 and had a wide-ranging impact.
As my naive view, lists are important to systematized learning, and this list, also a frontier one, which chose one method in the field of biology as a yearly review, hopefully, there are more marvelous frontier lists in other science fields may exist, but I didn't get the answer by my hasty searching
I will write a roughly series for ‘Method of the Year’ from 2007–2018 by the next 12 articles, and maybe my first step into the field of biology
