Contributors: Janick Mathys or Martin Krzywinski
This training session will provide the basics of protein structure determination and how this information is stored in databases. We will explore and search in online databases containing protein structure information. With the aid of the Yasara View program we will visualize the structure....
Operations: Visualisation
Keywords: Protein structure visualisation
Resource type: e-learning
This one-week intensive summer school in bioinformatics will focus on data analysis and high throughput biology, with a special focus on R/Bioconductor and its application to a wide range of topics across bioinformatics and computational biology. The course is intended for researchers who are...
Scientific topics: Statistics and probability, Omics, RNA-Seq, Proteomics
Operations: Data handling
Martin Krzywinski (http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/) gives a great primer on the key principles of effective visual design in biological sciences. During the talk he highlights the principles with examples from various peer-reviewed publications and discusses the practical aspects of effective figure...
Keywords: Genome, HCI, Information visualisation, Communication
Resource type: Video
Martin Krzywinski's keynote from 1st BiVi in 2014. He discusses visual design principles and communicating effectively in pictures.This talk distills core concepts of information design into practical guidelines for creating scientific figures. We will explain how to generate visual vocabularies...
Keywords: HCI, Communication
Resource type: Video