I am making a poster for the first time. Can anyone tell some of the depositories for bioinformatics posters in web so that I could collect some ideas on what makes a better one?

I would also appreciate suggestions/guidelines in making a bioinformatics poster.

Thanks!

• http://posters.f1000.com/PosterList?facID=8001
• http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?searchfrom=header&q=bioinformatics+Poster
• http://vizbi.org/2011/
• http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/software/preseting-software-on-a-poster
• poster for bowtie: http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/~langmead/AGBT_Feb2009.pdf

etc...

http://vizbi.org/2011/ has a good selection available for viewing.

As does Nature Precedings.

There was also a nice series of articles in Nature Methods by Bang Wong.

Bioinformatician Michael Barton recently wrote a useful blog post with tips for creating a bioinformatics poster.

There is also eposters.net (The Online Journal of Scientific Posters).

Hi Do not put too much text! A lot of smallprint is scaring people off. Write your ideas short and precise, so it is easy to read. For results use plots/figures and for details use yourself! Posters with owner by its side have more value, you can explain the details about how you conducted a study, can get direct feedback and do networking.

That would be my personal very simple guideline ;-)

For poster design I used Inkscape, a vectorial graphics designer to produce SVG. So you will have no problem scaling it for printing.

faculty1000 collects posters from ISMB conferences. Take a look: http://posters.f1000.com/

Not for bioinformatics, but this tutorial is very helpful for making a poster.

http://connect.le.ac.uk/posters