BAI Tools
BioRender
A web-based illustration platform with life-science icons and templates for figures, mechanisms, posters, and graphical abstracts.
life scienceresearch figures
View entry RESEARCH CATEGORY
Scientific Visualization
Create research figures, diagrams, and data graphics. The database currently includes 30 tools, models, databases, or infrastructure entries in this category.
GInfrastructure
GraphPad Prism
A desktop application that combines biostatistical analysis, curve fitting, and scientific graphing.
biostatisticsscientific graphs
View entry PInfrastructure
Plotly
Open-source graphing libraries for interactive visualization in Python, R, and JavaScript, with related application tooling.
interactive chartsPython
View entry RInfrastructure
RAWGraphs
An open-source web application that converts tabular data into a range of conventional and less common visual forms.
open sourcecharts
View entry DInfrastructure
Datawrapper
A browser-based tool for creating and publishing charts, maps, and tables without programming.
chartsmaps
View entry FInfrastructure
Flourish
A template-based platform for interactive visualizations, animated charts, maps, and data stories.
data storiesinteractive graphics
View entry TInfrastructure
Tableau
A visual analytics platform for connecting data, exploring relationships, building dashboards, and sharing results.
visual analyticsdashboards
View entry OInfrastructure
OriginPro
A Windows application for scientific data analysis, curve fitting, and publication-oriented graphing.
scientific graphingcurve fitting
View entry GInfrastructure
ggplot2
An open-source R package based on a grammar of graphics for building reproducible statistical visualizations.
Ropen source
View entry MInfrastructure
Matplotlib
An open-source Python library for static, animated, and interactive visualizations.
Pythonopen source
View entry PInfrastructure
ParaView
An open-source application for interactive analysis and visualization of large two- and three-dimensional scientific datasets.
3D visualizationscientific computing
View entry UInfrastructure
UCSF ChimeraX
Desktop software for visualization and analysis of molecular structures, density maps, and related biomedical data.
molecular visualizationstructural biology
View entry VInfrastructure
VMD
Software for displaying, analyzing, and rendering molecular systems and simulation trajectories.
molecular visualizationsimulation trajectories
View entry SInfrastructure
seaborn
An open-source Python statistical-graphics library built on Matplotlib with a high-level, data-frame-oriented interface.
statistical graphicsPython
View entry VInfrastructure
Vega-Lite
An open-source high-level grammar and toolchain for defining interactive statistical graphics with concise declarative JSON specifications.
declarative visualizationinteractive charts
View entry VInfrastructure
Vega-Altair
An open-source Python library that builds declarative statistical visualizations on the Vega-Lite specification.
statistical visualizationPython
View entry BInfrastructure
Bokeh
An open-source Python library for interactive browser graphics, data applications, and linked visual exploration.
interactive visualizationPython
View entry PInfrastructure
PyVista
An open-source Python library for three-dimensional visualization and mesh analysis, with a NumPy-oriented interface over VTK.
3D visualizationmesh analysis
View entry OInfrastructure
OVITO
Scientific software for visualizing and analyzing atomistic, molecular, and particle-simulation data, available as open-source Basic tools and a proprietary Pro edition.
particle simulation3D analysis
View entry VInfrastructure
VisIt
An open-source application for interactive and parallel visualization and quantitative analysis of mesh-based scientific data.
scientific visualizationparallel analysis
View entry CInfrastructure
Cytoscape
An open-source desktop platform for visualizing, analyzing, and extending complex networks, with broad use in molecular and biological network research.
network analysisbiological networks
View entry GInfrastructure
Gephi
Open-source software for interactively exploring, laying out, filtering, and presenting complex networks on desktop or in a browser.
network visualizationgraph analysis
View entry MInfrastructure
Mayavi
An open-source Python library and interactive application for two- and three-dimensional scientific-data visualization built on VTK.
3D visualizationPython
View entry VInfrastructure
VTK
An open-source toolkit for processing and visualizing scientific data, with capabilities spanning 2D plots, image processing, volume rendering, and 3D graphics.
scientific visualization3D rendering
View entry HInfrastructure
HoloViews
An open-source Python library that uses declarative objects to connect data semantics with static or interactive visualizations.
Pythondeclarative visualization
View entry DInfrastructure
Datashader
An open-source Python rasterization pipeline that projects, aggregates, transforms, and shades large datasets into viewable representations.
large-scale datarasterization
View entry PInfrastructure
plotnine
An open-source Python visualization package based on a grammar of graphics, using layers and aesthetic mappings to compose statistical plots.
Pythongrammar of graphics
View entry VInfrastructure
VisPy
An open-source Python library that uses GPU and OpenGL acceleration for interactive two- and three-dimensional data visualization.
GPUinteractive visualization
View entry MInfrastructure
Mol*
An open-source web technology stack for visualizing and analyzing large macromolecular structures and associated experimental data.
molecular visualizationstructural biology
View entry NInfrastructure
NGL Viewer
An open-source JavaScript viewer that uses WebGL to display proteins, nucleic acids, other molecular structures, and trajectories in a browser.
molecular visualizationWebGL
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