Software tool to draw endocytic pathways

[Dries Vercauteren]

Dear all,

I was wondering if you could help me to find a decent tool to draw endocytic tools or cell processes?

Which software packages are often used and hopefully free to download to draw endosomes, plasmamembrane, proteins, cel organelles, etc?

Examples are Biodraw Ultra, Coreldraw, .. ?

Thanks in advance,

Dries.
-- 

Dries Vercauteren, PhD student
Master of Bioscience Engineering: Cell and Gene Biotechnology

Ghent Research Group on Nanomedicines
http://www.ugent.be/fw/en/research/pharmaceutics/biofys
Faculty of pharmaceutical sciences, Ghent University
Harelbekestraat 72, 9000 Ghent
Belgium

Phone:  [phone]
Mobile: [phone]
E-mail: [hidden email]
          [hidden email]

[sabarinath radhakrishnan]

Dear Dries,

I am part time meical illustrator and would like to recommend Adobe
Illustrator. It might take some time to get trained but once you learn
the basics you find it very useful  for all your preseantations.

regarding software packages to ownload biology samples and shapes:

Please do check out : http://www.motifolio.com/

These are basically powerpoint packs with Ready-to-use Biology,
Anatomy, Signaling Pathway, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology diagrams


Best Wishes,

Shabree

Sabarinath Radhakrishnan
SHO Oncology/ Haematology,
BHR NHS trust
Queens hopital
Romford
UK




On 6/16/10, Dries Vercauteren <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I was wondering if you could help me to find a decent tool to draw endocytic
> tools or cell processes?
> Which software packages are often used and hopefully free to download to
> draw endosomes, plasmamembrane, proteins, cel organelles, etc?
>
> Examples are Biodraw Ultra, Coreldraw, .. ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Dries.
> --
> Dries Vercauteren, PhD student
> Master of Bioscience Engineering: Cell and Gene Biotechnology
>
> Ghent Research Group on Nanomedicines
> http://www.ugent.be/fw/en/research/pharmaceutics/biofys
> Faculty of pharmaceutical sciences, Ghent University
> Harelbekestraat 72, 9000 Ghent
> Belgium
>
> Phone:  [phone]
> Mobile: [phone]
> E-mail: [hidden email]
>           [hidden email]
>

[mahogny]

There are some open source alternatives. in particular

http://www.inkscape.org/

Runs well on linux but is rather quirky on mac; don't know about windows.

By all means do not *ever* use a raster graphics program like photoshop.
The end-result is usually so bad it can be spotted within a second that
you used one of these programs.

/Johan

sabarinath radhakrishnan wrote:

> Dear Dries,
>
> I am part time meical illustrator and would like to recommend Adobe
> Illustrator. It might take some time to get trained but once you learn
> the basics you find it very useful  for all your preseantations.
>
> regarding software packages to ownload biology samples and shapes:
>
> Please do check out : http://www.motifolio.com/
>
> These are basically powerpoint packs with Ready-to-use Biology,
> Anatomy, Signaling Pathway, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology diagrams
>
>
> Best Wishes,
>
> Shabree
>
> Sabarinath Radhakrishnan
> SHO Oncology/ Haematology,
> BHR NHS trust
> Queens hopital
> Romford
> UK
>
>
>
>
> On 6/16/10, Dries Vercauteren <[hidden email]> wrote:
>  
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I was wondering if you could help me to find a decent tool to draw endocytic
>> tools or cell processes?
>> Which software packages are often used and hopefully free to download to
>> draw endosomes, plasmamembrane, proteins, cel organelles, etc?
>>
>> Examples are Biodraw Ultra, Coreldraw, .. ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Dries.
>> --
>> Dries Vercauteren, PhD student
>> Master of Bioscience Engineering: Cell and Gene Biotechnology
>>
>> Ghent Research Group on Nanomedicines
>> http://www.ugent.be/fw/en/research/pharmaceutics/biofys
>> Faculty of pharmaceutical sciences, Ghent University
>> Harelbekestraat 72, 9000 Ghent
>> Belgium
>>
>> Phone:  [phone]
>> Mobile: [phone]
>> E-mail: [hidden email]
>>           [hidden email]
>>
>>