Pattern at Broad Institute

We are a group of designers, engineers, and scientists specializing in visualization at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (@broadinstitute).

[Sumaiya Iqbal @Sumaiyalqbal]

📢 We released the 2022-end v2 of the Genomics 2 Proteins portal @G2Pportal (https://t.co/x5Pf7sIwiC) with updated data and new features🥳 Incredible work by @patternvizlab and @jordan_safer, always grateful to our funder - The Merkin Institute of Data and Technology Development

[Pattern at Broad Institute @patternvizlab]

We are hiring! Join our little team of designers, software engineers, artists, and lovers of all things #dataviz @broadinstitute
We are looking for a UI/IX Designer https://t.co/FLMxkPdWn8
and a Front End Developer
https://t.co/haoUYBIZsw

[Pattern at Broad Institute @patternvizlab]

To help researchers match existing drugs to unmet therapeutic needs, we designed/developed a website with a data app and illustrated case studies for the Drug Repurposing Hub @broadinstitute. Now we + RepHub have added a new search-by-structure feature! https://t.co/RyoguXNcSv

[C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag]

Ever wonder how successful science communicators got to where they are? Read stories and advice from artists, wordsmiths and voices behind @compoundchem @MFQCPod @DCScienceComedy @patternvizlab, @thecolumnco @sciam in this special email series! https://t.co/wuplQQ63OP #scicomm

[Pattern at Broad Institute @patternvizlab]

Pattern illustrator and designer @oreillymk shared her top tips for success when designing a grant proposal figure—no special design skills required! Read all about it in our new blog post #scicomm #sciart

[Mary O'Reilly @oreillymk]

A behind-the-scenes look at how we @patternvizlab do design reviews and improve schematic figures with our researchers. Anyone can do this! No artistic talent required. #scicomm
5 Simple Design Principles for a Grant Proposal Figure Makeover by Pattern https://t.co/6iB0KR39U5

[Pattern at Broad Institute @patternvizlab]

Are your scientific figures saying what you think they are saying? It depends—check your Gestalt grouping!
@oreillymk
explains in this article how to use Gestalt Principles of Grouping to improve clarity and impact #scicomm #dataviz #sciart #science

https://t.co/zV4bDZBtwS

[Pattern at Broad Institute @patternvizlab]

2/2 Here's the final image!

[Pattern at Broad Institute @patternvizlab]

1/2 A behind-the-scenes look at the making of candidate cover art for @liugroup for Cell. A good tip to keep in mind when creating cover art is to use the journal's cover template (if available) so there are no surprises later. #primeediting

[Pattern at Broad Institute @patternvizlab]

https://t.co/gwRSUQpWUC

[Joshua Pan @joshbiology]

1) An interactive portal (https://t.co/zM1dFGX2eo) developed by @BenDexterCooley
and @tangdru @patternvizlab @CancerDataSci @BroadInstitute, in which users can query their favorite genes or functions. Summary here: https://t.co/Ymiam6V98J

[Pattern at Broad Institute @patternvizlab]

Congratulations to @joshbiology and coauthors for publication in @CellSystemsCP ! Honored to have collaborated on such innovative and groundbreaking ML approaches for computational biology. See more of the interactive portal we built below! #dataviz #scicomm

[Joshua Pan @joshbiology]

Today in @CellSystemsCP: Inferring pleiotropic gene functions from fitness screens using sparse approximation! Thanks to coauthors including @marinka_zitnik, @CancerDepMap, William Hahn. What's new from the preprint version? [a 🧵] https://t.co/OybrbavICY

[Pattern at Broad Institute @patternvizlab]

We had a busy year at the @broadinstitute! To wrap up the year, we wanted to look back at all the amazing science we were fortunate enough to contribute design and development work to. Here's our best of 2021. Thank you to all our collaborators!

https://t.co/XZYDopX3At

[Pattern at Broad Institute @patternvizlab]

New cover art out now in @CellGenomics designed by our very own @moscienceart!

#scicomm #sciart

[Amit V. Khera @amitvkhera]

Grateful to @moscienceart and the @patternvizlab team for their important contributions

including a great journal cover!

[Pattern at Broad Institute @patternvizlab]

For an upcoming paper w @joshbiology @broadinstitute, we explored a new approach to 3d UMAP #dataviz for single cell genomics. Read below about our design process behind improving the UX of navigating data in 3d space with a new "flip" method!

Blog: https://t.co/WQZnAkbe71

[Pattern at Broad Institute @patternvizlab]

Pattern is on Medium! Communicating polygenic scores to a broad audience has a particular set of challenges. We are excited to share with you how we approached these challenges throughout our journey creating https://t.co/HDrGBfggCD
Read about it here:
https://t.co/qD22uJaTPM

[Pattern at Broad Institute @patternvizlab]

Also new in the @GTExPortal @broadinstitute, we created violin plots that visualize single-cell gene expression but also dig deeper - how big was the sample, and what proportion of those cells expressed the gene? https://t.co/OYjDnlvwv0 #dataviz #singlecell #violinplot

[Pattern at Broad Institute @patternvizlab]

Get a birds-eye view of where in our bodies our genes are expressed using our new Multi-Gene Single Cell Viewer, made in collaboration with our wonderful partners @GTExPortal @broadinstitute #dataviz #singlecell #asterplot

[GTEx Portal @GTExPortal]

Our new Multi-Gene Single Cell Viewer, developed with the @patternvizlab, displays cell expression data for a list of genes. https://t.co/yyqGQyr2yS

[Pattern at Broad Institute @patternvizlab]

When we learned it was too late to submit cover art, we turned our concept into a poster for the @liugroup's latest base editing victory - changing a sickle cell-causing hemoglobin into a benign one. Thnx to @Broad_ChemBio & Congrats to @davidrliu and co-authors (see in poster)!

[Pattern at Broad Institute @patternvizlab]

How will people comprehend a report detailing their polygenic risk score for coronary artery disease? Our team co-authored this user testing study that set out to answer this question. https://t.co/yrDn37Wd6y #polygenicrisk #scicomm

[Pattern at Broad Institute @patternvizlab]

Looking beyond BMI, @amitvkhera and colleagues correlated specific regions of fat with risk for diabetes and coronary artery disease. Happy we could help them to visualize how they did it! #scicomm

[Amit V. Khera @amitvkhera]

By converting 3D MRI data into 2-dimensional projections from the front and side

we reduced data input size for ML model 830-fold!

but still allowed for near-perfect estimation of fat depot volumes in a holdout dataset

[Pattern at Broad Institute @patternvizlab]

To help get kids back to school safely @tangdru and @bendoesdataviz from our team volunteered their time and talents to create this dashboard for Safer Teachers, Safer Students K-12 SARS-CoV-2 Testing Collaborative. https://t.co/jnGGYkfTU8 Read more here! https://t.co/XPAMTqTlIr