nature-structural-and-molecular-biology
Use when targeting Nature Structural & Molecular Biology (NSMB) or deciding whether a structural/molecular biology manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill nature-structural-and-molecular-biology --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Nature Structural & Molecular Biology (nature-structural-and-molecular-biology) ## Journal positioning Nature Structural & Molecular Biology is the Springer Nature specialist journal for research at the intersection of structure and function, covering proteins, nucleic acids, macromolecular complexes, and the mechanistic molecular biology they underpin. The journal is explicitly structure-function focused: high-resolution structural determination is expected to illuminate mechanism, conformational dynamics, or biology — not to be an end in itself. Readership spans structural biologists, biochemists, cell biologists, and biophysicists for whom atomic-level mechanism is a shared language. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the Springer Nature NSMB site and submission portal. ## When to trigger - The author names NSMB as the target venue for a structure-function or mechanistic molecular-biology study. - A cryo-EM, X-ray crystallography, NMR, or single-molecule manuscript needs evaluation for whether its biological insight cle
- Journal positioning
- When to trigger
- Scope & topic fit
- Method & evidence bar
- Structure & house style
- Official-submission checklist
- Pre-submission self-check
- Common desk-reject triggers
- Re-routing decision
- Output format
What does the nature-structural-and-molecular-biology skill do?
Use when targeting Nature Structural & Molecular Biology (NSMB) or deciding whether a structural/molecular biology manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill nature-structural-and-molecular-biology --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 984 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.