Resources

Maintaining a lab notebook

1. NIH OITE Keeping a Laboratory Notebook
2. Dr. Callie Chappell’s Blog on Lab Notebooking

Scientific writing

1. Ten Simple Rules for Writing Research Papers
2. LEADERSHIP LAB: The Craft of Writing Effectively
3. Writing a scientific article: A step-by-step guide for beginners
4. A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Review Article

Yeast molecular biology and genetics

1. Primer design for fission yeast tagging and knockout
2. Tetrad Dissection

Adobe Illutrator

Introduction to Adobe Illustrator for scientific figure design

Figure design

Many of these resources are from the fantastic Bang Wong, who wrote a series of short articles for Nature Methods.

1. Color coding Aug 2010
2. Design of data figures Sep 2010
3. Salience 29 Sep 2010
4. Gestalt principles 1 28 Oct 2010
5. Gestalt principles 2 29 Nov 2010
6. Negative space 29 Dec 2010
7. Points of review 1 28 Jan 2011
8. Points of review 2 25 Feb 2011
9. Typography 30 Mar 2011
10. The overview figure 28 Apr 2011
11. Color blindness 27 May 2011
12. Avoiding color 29 Jun 2011
13. Arrows 30 Aug 2011
14. Simplify to clarify 28 Jul 2011
15. Layout 29 Sep 2011
16. Salience to relevance 28 Oct 2011
17. The design process 29 Nov 2011
18. Data exploration 28 Dec 2011
19. Heat maps 28 Feb 2012
20. Mapping quantitatve data to color
21. Power of the plane 27 Sep 2012
22. Pencil & Paper 06 Nov 2012
23. Plotting symbols 30 May 2013