Venn diagram is an excellent tool to visualize the relationship among sets. Ideally, the sizes of the circles and their overlapping area should be proportional to the relationship they convey. It is, however, quite a challenge to create a proportional Venn diagram. No worries: With BioVinci, you can get this… Read more »
Writing a scientific paper? Preparing for publication? Making a poster for a conference tomorrow? Let’s face it: People will skim through the body text of your paper/poster, and only look at the figures. We all love figures. They catch eyes, they deliver information effectively, they highlight your results. Figures are… Read more »
Heatmap, heatmap everywhere. They are an intuitive way to visualize information from complex data. You see them showing gene expression, phylogenetic distance, metabolomic profiles, and a whole lot more. In this tutorial, we will show you how to perform hierarchical clustering and produce a heatmap with your data using BioVinci…. Read more »
Histogram is one of the most popular tools to study the distribution of a variable. How to draw a histogram in a simple fashion, yet still keep it aesthetically pleasing? No worries. Here we show you how easy it can be to create and fine-tune a histogram with BioVinci. The… Read more »
Massive amounts of biological data are emerging everyday, waiting to be deciphered. There is almost no way to analyze and visualize them without writing complex code. As a biologist, you may not find it an optimal use of your time to develop such code from scratch. That is why we… Read more »
When it comes to presenting data, visuals are your friend, or so we all heard. Tables are better than large blocks of text and numbers. Graphs and charts are better than tables. Then it becomes irresistible to enliven your graphs and charts with colors, patterns, grid lines, labels, and the… Read more »
When your data span a large range, the graphs tend to get ugly. Values either crowd at the bottom or spread out at the top — a problem called poor resolution. The rate of changes is hard to display, since the graph usually has a very long tail, or a very stiff back,… Read more »
