How to Prepare Figures in Articles of Molecular Biology

Proper figures are beneficial to our article presentation.Basing on our knowledge and working experience,we introduced some essential skills of figure preparation in articles of molecular biology using Excel and Photoshop softwares in this article.Excel is an effective software not only for presentation of our experiment data,but also help us to make the finishing point when using different infilling colors and textures to aggrandize visual effects in Excel histogram.When processing figures of structure and immunoblot result,it can give prominence to subject through excision,enlargement,and adjustment of contrast and brightness using Photoshop software.When the strength of GFP fluorescence and GUS staining needs to be compared in different backgrounds,it is necessary to piece and adjust figures together as a whole one.