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UKE Paper of the Month May 2025
Tidyplots empowers life scientists with easy code-based data visualization
Jan Broder Engler
ABSTRACT:
Code-based data visualization is a crucial tool for understanding and communicating experimental findings while ensuring scalability and reproducibility. However, complex programming interfaces pose a significant barrier for life scientists. To address this challenge, tidyplots provides a user-friendly code-based interface for creating customizable and insightful plots. With its consistent and intuitive syntax, tidyplots empowers researchers to leverage automated data visualization pipelines while minimizing required programming skills.
STATEMENT:
Tidyplots is a code-based visualization tool designed to make high-quality scientific plotting both accessible and efficient. In an era where data transparency, reproducibility, and automation are more critical than ever, tidyplots addresses a major gap by offering a user-friendly yet powerful interface tailored to the needs of life scientists. By lowering the technical barrier to code-based visualization, tidyplots empowers researchers at all skill levels to create insightful, reproducible graphics with minimal coding effort. Its intuitive design, built-in teaching resources, and accessibility features—such as colorblind-friendly palettes—make it ideal not only for research but also for education and collaboration. We believe tidyplots will have a broad and lasting impact by fostering better data communication, accelerating discovery, and promoting a more open and reproducible scientific culture.
BACKGROUND:
Tidyplots was developed by Senior Scientist Jan Broder Engler at the Institute of Neuroimmunology and Multiple Sclerosis (INIMS). In his work, Jan Broder Engler explores strategies to protect neurons against neuroinflammation and develops open-source software tools to make code-based data visualization accessible to everyone. This work was supported by the Gemeinnützige Hertie-Stiftung through a Hertie Network of Excellence in Clinical Neuroscience Fellowship awarded to Jan Broder Engler (grant no. P1200009).
https://doi.org/10.1002/imt2.70018
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Next PoM: To apply, the publication must have been published in May2025. Applications will be considered in two rounds of the selection process, i.e. two months. Please send your completed PoM application to Dr. Anne Wulf by 30/06/2025.