Ten simple rules to create biological network figures for communication
Fig 6
Two network images based on data from Khaled and colleagues [22]. (A) is a recreation of the original Fig 3B shown in the paper, including the color-blind and saturated color scheme, which makes it difficult to perceive the relative importance of the nodes. The colormap also groups unrelated edges and nodes together through similar colors, whereas the node labels in light gray have low luminance contrast with the white background and are difficult to read. (B) shows an improved version, including a legend and appropriate and separate quantitative colormaps for edges and nodes. Both images were created with Cytoscape (Cytoscape Consortium; https://cytoscape.org/) and postprocessed using Photoshop (Adobe; https://www.adobe.com/) to assemble them.