Hi Albert,
I do very little free hand drawing, but when I do, I use adobe illustrator. Alternatively, there is a PowerPoint document call the "PPT tool kit-Neuroscience" that contains many useful pre-drawn shapes including templates for many types of neurons and synapses. I highly recommend it. I typically import these stock images into illustrator and modify them to my desire. For me this is typically faster than drawing neurons de novo. give it a try. http://motifolio.com/neuroscience.html.
Cheers,
Kevin
Hi Albert,
I do very little free hand drawing, but when I do, I use adobe illustrator. Alternatively, there is a PowerPoint document call the "PPT tool kit-Neuroscience" that contains many useful pre-drawn shapes including templates for many types of neurons and synapses. I highly recommend it. I typically import these stock images into illustrator and modify them to my desire. For me this is typically faster than drawing neurons de novo. give it a try. http://motifolio.com/neuroscience.html.
Cheers,
Kevin
There are several of them, check out this list:
http://diademchallenge.org/algorithms.html
These software are used for neuronal reconstructions but some of them allow you to draw.
Hi Albert,
I used VAA3D
http://home.penglab.com/proj/vaa3d/Vaa3D/About_Vaa3D.html
Thanks so much for the answers and recommendations. It really helped.
BioRender might be a good option (https://biorender.io/)
It's an online app that contains a library of pre-made cells, proteins, membrane shapes, organs, lab equipment, etc. that you can drag-and-drop so you don't have to spend time drawing each element of the figure yourself. Saves a LOT of time and the final figures you create are professional-looking. Plus, it's free for educational use.
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