Md. Hridoy Ahmed

Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics Enthusiast

Resources and Tools


Literature Review Tools

  • Unriddle.AI: An AI tool for literature reviews that simplifies reading, extracts key insights, enhances writing, and guides you through complex topics with ease.
  • ScienceOpen: A free search engine for research papers with citation metrics, altmetrics, and a user-friendly design for exploring scholarly works.
  • Semantic Scholar: An AI-powered platform for discovering and analyzing academic papers, offering deep insights into scholarly literature.
  • SciSpace: A research tool with 270+ million papers and an AI assistant, Copilot, providing summaries, explanations, and answers to aid comprehension.
  • PICO Portal: An AI tool designed to streamline systematic reviews by predicting the most relevant articles based on your criteria, reducing the number of studies you need to screen.
  • Elicit: An AI research assistant that helps in literature review by finding relevant papers, summarizing findings, and extracting key information to answer specific research questions.
  • Research Rabbit: A tool that allows researchers to create collections of papers and visualize the connections between them, aiding in the discovery of related work and the development of comprehensive literature reviews. 
  • Consensus: An AI-powered search engine that finds and summarizes research papers, helping users quickly understand the consensus in scientific literature on a given topic.

Free Courses on Research Methods, Manuscript Writing, and Publishing

Find Journer

  • JANE (Journal/Article Name Estimator): A tool that helps you find the most relevant journals for your research based on article titles or abstracts.
  • Clarivate Master Journal List: A comprehensive list of journals indexed by Clarivate, offering essential information for journal selection.
  • Scopus Journal Comparison: Allows you to compare journals indexed in Scopus based on various metrics like impact factor and citation counts.
  • Jot (Journal Targeter): A tool to help you identify the best journals for submitting your manuscript based on keywords or topics.
  • Elsevier Journal Finder: Helps you find Elsevier journals that match your research topics and manuscript.
  • Taylor & Francis Journal Suggester: This tool suggests journals from Taylor & Francis based on the title and abstract of your manuscript.
  • Think. Check. Submit: A resource to help you evaluate the trustworthiness of journals and avoid predatory publishers.
  • Wiley Journal Finder: A tool that helps you find Wiley journals by matching your manuscript with relevant journals.
  • Cabell's: Provides a directory of journals and their evaluation metrics, helping you find suitable journals for your research.
  • Journal Evaluation Tool: A tool for evaluating journals based on multiple performance metrics and journal reputation.
  • Sage Journal Recommender: Suggests Sage journals that are a good fit for your research topic using your manuscript title and abstract.

R Package for Data analysis and Visualisation

  • dplyr: A package for data manipulation, offering functions like filtering, selecting, and summarizing data. Part of the tidyverse.
  • tidyr: Focuses on tidying data, such as reshaping and separating columns. Works well with other tidyverse packages. 
  • Tidyverse: A collection of R packages (e.g., ggplot2, dplyr, tidyr, purrr) for consistent data analysis and visualization.
  • gtsummary & gt: Used for creating customizable summary tables for data frames and statistical models. 
  • ggplot2: A powerful visualization package implementing the "grammar of graphics" to create complex plots. 
  • hrbrthemes: Enhances ggplot2 plots with additional themes, color palettes, and customization options. 
  • RColorBrewer & viridis: Provide color palettes for data visualization, ideal for maps and charts. 
  • Heatmaply: Creates interactive heatmaps with customization options.

Free Courses and Tutorials for R Programming

Data Science Tools 

  • NumPy: Foundation for scientific computing, offering support for multidimensional arrays and mathematical operations.
  • Pandas: Simplifies data wrangling and analysis, providing powerful tools for handling structured data.
  • Matplotlib: Used for creating static, basic data visualizations.
  • Seaborn: Enhances Matplotlib with advanced statistical visualizations and attractive aesthetics.
  • Plotly: Enables interactive and dynamic data visualizations.
  • researchpy: data and performs statistical tests efficiently.
  • Dask: Handles big data analysis with parallel computing support.
  • scikit-learn: A versatile library for machine learning, offering tools for classification, regression, and clustering.
  • scikit-image: Provides tools for image manipulation, especially useful in life sciences.

Free Courses and Tutorials for Data Science 

Biological Illustratol Tools

  • BioArt: Hosted by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), BioArt provides over 2,000 science and medical visuals, including vectors, icons, and brushes, created by professional illustrators. 
  • Bioicon: Bioicon offers a collection of high-quality biological icons and illustrations to enhance scientific presentations and educational materials.
  • BioRender: BioRender's scientific illustration software includes an activity sheet with editable lab icons, enabling users to create publication-quality figures using pre-made icons and templates. 
  • SciDraw: SciDraw is a platform that offers a variety of scientific drawings, including vectors of cells, animals, and laboratory equipment, contributed by the scientific community.
  • Servier Medical Art (SMART): It offers over 3,000 free, high-quality medical illustrations suitable for publications and presentations. The collection encompasses various medical specialties, including anatomy, cellular biology, and general medical items.
  • Reactome: Reactome is a free, open-source, curated, and peer-reviewed pathway database that provides insights into molecular processes and pathways in human biology.
  • LabIcons: LabIcons offers free drawings of laboratory objects to improve knowledge communication in science and education, including clip arts of microcentrifuge tubes, plasticware, instruments, equipment, and glassware.
 
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