Scientific Figure Design - TeSS (Training eSupport System)

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Bioinformatics and Biomathematics Training Hub

The Bioinformatics and Biomathematics Training Hub (BBTH) is a BBSRC-funded collaborative project to coordinate the development and sharing of training materials and expertise across the UK’s National Institutes of Bioscience (NIB — http://www.nib.ac.uk/) for the increasingly important areas of bioinformatics and biomathematics.

Guided by our NIB partners, researcher surveys, and interactions with interested bodies such as Elixir-UK, we will work to ensure that best use is made of existing assets and capabilities, that best practice is shared across the NIB, and that redundant effort is minimised going forwards.

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Scientific Figure Design

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This course provides a practical guide to producing figures for use in reports and publications. It is a wide ranging course which looks at how to design figures to clearly and fairly represent your data, the practical aspects of graph creation, the allowable manipulation of bitmap images and compositing and editing of final figures.

The course will use a number of different open source software packages and is illustrated with a number of example figures adapted from common analysis tools.

Course Content

Data Visualisation Theory Lecture
Data Representation Practical
Ethics of Data Representation Lecture
Design Theory Lecture
GIMP Tutorial
GIMP Practical
Inkscape Tutorial
Inkscape Practical
Final Practical

Course Material

Licence: Other (Non-Commercial)

Keywords: Figure design, Babraham Institute

Authors: Simon Andrews, Anne Segonds-Pichon, Boo Virk

Scientific topics: Data visualisation