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Online tool to create and share scientific drawings

Faculty, Staff, Students

Web



Property Value
Description Online tool to create and share scientific drawings
Access Faculty, Staff, Students
Platform Web

Description

BioRender is an online tool used to create and share scientific figures for journal articles, scientific posters, presentations, class slides, grant applications, and brainstorming.  

Example figure created in BioRender: a diagram of a phospholipid bilayer membrane showing the arrangement of phospholipids, cholesterol, and various proteins (channel, integral, peripheral, surface, globular, and alpha-helix) between the extracellular and intracellular spaces.
Example figure created in BioRender

Access

Any Swarthmore faculty member or student can request access by submitting a help ticket at support.swarthmore.edu or support@swathmore.edu.

The number of faculty and student licenses is limited to a set amount per year.

Features and Usage

Faculty have access to the Premium account features, including the rights to publish to a journal.  Student accounts have all the features except the rights to publish to a journal.  In most cases, it is best for a professor to create an account that owns the figures and collaborate with student researchers.  

Support

BioRender tutorials