The role of science is to create (or discover) new knowledge about nature
This knowledge is given as explanations of phenomena we observe
Explanations can be given in text or in drawings
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Naito et al. Wnt signaling and aging-related heart disorders. doi:10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.110.223776
Sawa H., Korswagen H. C. “Wnt signaling in C. elegans” (December 9, 2013), WormBook, doi:10.1895/wormbook.1.7.2, http://www.wormbook.org Copyright: © 2013 Hitoshi Sawa and Hendrik C. Korswagen.
Scott McCloud (1993) “Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art”
Advantages:
Disadvantages:
Only good for simple things
Describe your graph, the computer draws it for you
Graph visualization is a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks
Official site: https://graphviz.org/
Online editors:
digraph dogma {
DNA -> Transcription -> RNA -> Translation -> Proteins
Transcription [shape=box]
Translation [shape=box]
}
digraph {
rankdir=LR;
node [shape=box];
edge [arrowhead=open; arrowtail=open];
test -> prediction -> explanation [dir=back];
nature -> observation -> pattern -> question -> explanation;
observation -> knowledge -> "peer-review" -> test [dir=back];
{rank=same nature "peer-review" test}
{rank=same observation knowledge prediction}
{rank=same pattern question explanation }
}
Naito et al. Wnt signaling and aging-related heart disorders. doi:10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.110.223776
The Systems Biology Graphical Notation is a project by the most important researchers in this area, including:
We can immediately understand the meaning
Draw your work:
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