What is BioRender?
BioRender is a user-friendly browser-based program used to visually communicate complex scientific ideas and data through figures, graphics, and illustrations. It was designed by scientists for scientists to improve scientific communication and accelerate research discovery and collaboration.
The key features of BioRender include:
- An intuitive drag-and-drop interface allowing users to easily create and customize publication-quality figures by searching and adding elements from BioRender's extensive library of thousands of icons and templates.
- Coverage of major scientific disciplines - molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, cell biology, development, microbiology, anatomy, ecology, evolution, and more.
- One-click export to PNG, SVG, PDF - figures retain vector editing capabilities for additional customizations.
- A collaborative platform for sharing and exporting figures into presentations, papers, posters presentations and grant applications.
- Hundreds of professionally designed templates that can be fully customized, allowing new users to quickly create complex illustrations that follow best practices for figure design.
- Style match technology which gives suggestions to help new users find relevant shapes and colors based on elements already on the canvas.
- Ability to upload custom icons or diagrams.
- An open API for users or developers to integrate other software tools.
- A companion mobile app so scientists can continue their work on-the-go.
Overall, BioRender aims to enhance visual communication skills in order to accelerate collaboration, clarity, and discovery efficiency for scientists around the world.