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User interfaces for biology have drastically improved over the last 10 years. Domain-specific tools like genome browsers, protein viewers, or phylogenetic expl
by eweitz 4y ago
User interfaces for biology have drastically improved over the last 10 years.
Domain-specific tools like genome browsers, protein viewers, or phylogenetic explorers [1-3] almost all look and feel a lot better than they did in 2012.
The biggest exception here is UCSC Genome Browser, which has an old-school design and web technology stack. That said, it's steadily added features over the years, has substantially sleekened UX in its periphery, and remains widely used.
There are also bespoke visual design resources for biology applications that are good and getting better, like BioRender and PhyloPic [4-5]. There are multi-tiered packages like Dash Bio that wrap biology components together [6]. There's a Blender biology community, too!
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1. Genome browsers and components: https://jbrowse.org/jb2/ https://jbrowse.org/jb2/, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/gdv https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/gdv, https://igv.org/app https://igv.org/app, https://eweitz.github.io/ideogram https://eweitz.github.io/ideogram
2. Protein viewers: https://pymol.org/ https://pymol.org/, https://nglviewer.org/ngl/ https://nglviewer.org/ngl/
3. Phylogenetic explorers: https://clades.nextstrain.org/ https://clades.nextstrain.org/
4. https://biorender.com/ https://biorender.com/
5. http://phylopic.org/ http://phylopic.org/
6. https://github.com/plotly/dash-bio https://github.com/plotly/dash-bio, https://dash.gallery/Portal/?search=[Pharma] https://dash.gallery/Portal/?search=[Pharma]