BioRender
Create publication-ready scientific figures and illustrations in minutes using AI-powered design with thousands of scientifically accurate icons and templates.
Overview
BioRender is a browser-based scientific figure and illustration platform aimed at researchers, pharma teams, and research institutions. It provides tools for creating publication-ready figures, graphs, slides, posters, and presentations without requiring design skills or software installation. The platform is used by over 4 million scientists and is trusted by all top 30 pharmaceutical companies, with figures cited in more than 500,000 publications across journals including Nature, Science, and Cell.
BioRender combines a large library of scientifically accurate, editable visuals with AI-assisted tools that cover the full workflow from data analysis and figure creation through to collaboration and final presentation output.
AI-Powered Figure Creation Tools
- Converts uploaded photos, screenshots, or reference images into clean, editable visuals styled to match BioRender figures.
- Removes backgrounds from any image in a single click to produce polished figures and slides.
- Accepts text descriptions to make precise edits to individual icons or figure elements.
- Converts text input into clean, editable flowcharts suitable for team workflows.
- Transforms written methods into formatted, editable protocol drafts with layout included.
- Generates editable timelines from study descriptions, suitable for research designs, experiment schedules, and project plans.
Core Platform Capabilities
- Analyze: Supports data formatting and graphing with AI assistance to help researchers present research data.
- Illustrate: Provides AI-powered figure creation built on a library of scientifically accurate images and icons.
- Collaborate: Offers a shared workspace where teams can organize, edit, and review figures together.
- Present: Enables creation of visuals for grants, publications, posters, and presentations within the same platform.
Templates and Asset Library
- Includes thousands of customizable templates designed by expert science designers across many fields of life sciences.
- Built on a library described as the world's largest collection of editable, scientifically accurate visuals.
- Templates cover a wide range of figure types relevant to research communication.
Collaboration and Team Features
- Provides a single shared platform to replace files scattered across emails and local drives.
- Supports team-level organization, editing, and review of figures in one workspace.
- Designed to help pharma and research teams align on complex scientific content more efficiently.
Reported Outcomes
- Labs using BioRender report up to 3x higher NIH grant funding based on a published case study.
- Figures created with BioRender have been cited in over 500,000 publications.
- The platform has been used by more than 15 Nobel Prize winners to visualize their research.
BioRender runs entirely in the browser with no download required and supports MCP integrations. It is positioned as a standard tool for scientific communication across academic research, grant applications, and pharmaceutical industry settings.
