Alterlab Scientific Viz

alterlab-ieu/alterlab-scientific-viz

Orchestrates matplotlib, seaborn, and plotly with opinionated publication styles to produce journal-ready figures. Use when preparing journal-submission figures that need multi-panel layouts with bold panel labels, statistical significance annotations, error bars, colorblind-safe palettes (Okabe-Ito), or specific journal formatting (Nature, Science, Cell). Does NOT cover raw low-level plotting or fine-grained control of individual plot elements; for building custom plots from scratch or tuning every artist and rcParam prefer alterlab-matplotlib instead. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.

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Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills --skill alterlab-scientific-viz

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take alterlab-ieu/alterlab-scientific-viz from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.

Install what it needs

The instructions reference pip. Without those the skill loads but fails at the first command.