Blog pour janvier, 2022

I get often questions about how to write the Marterial and Method section of a manuscript including microscopy data. The diversity of technologies and applications in the field of microscopy may be complicated for some users and help of a microscopy specialist is often required.

Here I would like to present a usefull tool called MicCheck that provides a checklist of what to include in the material and method section of a manuscript including microscopy data. MicCheck is a free tool to help you. It is described in details in the following article. 

Montero Llopis, P., Senft, R.A., Ross-Elliott, T.J. et al. Best practices and tools for reporting reproducible fluorescence microscopy methods. Nat Methods 18, 1463–1476 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01156-w