Hi, I have tried to draw a metro-map for #C038XMTQWBT; it looks like this. However, I am not sure if this is clear, and I assume there is room for improvement. There are some things that are not completely accurate: Each step in polishing / scaffolding produces one fasta file. The QC happens on each fasta file that is produced, and the pipeline also performs annotation liftover from a reference on each fasta that comes out of the pipeline. However, I do not know how to add this information into the image without turning it into an incomprehensible mess.. Any suggestions, or other comments on this drawing?

For draw.io I think we have to ask @Louis Le Nézet (I think who was the person who first recommended that)

Sorry I didn't correctly read the question ^^ To select multiple vertices use "Shift"

Thanks @James Fellows Yates I will give it a try with a larger canvas, the squishiness is a bit annoying for drawing anyway. The logo & placement of legends I will do properly once the graph is done 🙂

It's always a bit tricky in drawing software. It's the same in inkscape 😅

> You should use a SVG version of the logo not a PNG (it's fuzzy now), try

nf-core pipelines create-logo

when I do this with

--format svg

the font in the svg is not maven pro

If you open SVG in e.g. inkscape it should render properly. You may also need to install the font (Maven Pro - it's on google fonts) so it renders nicely

So, I took your advice to make it larger, which gave me extra space to fill with stuff.. I tried to make the image reflect better what actually happens, but, well, it is a bunch of things

I think this overkill now, this won't help the reader understand what is going on

Hm, yeah, i mainly felt that the QC steps in the original version were kinda unclear, since they pop up after the subworkflows (grey boxes), but they actually act on the outputs of the processess (nodes in the subworkflow). Do you think that was clear from the previous version? Maybe I am also kind of hung up on the continuity of the metro line, there are many steps that happen, but are kind of independent of each other (e.g. the scaffolding steps)..

I went for this approach for mag, as it also has too many QC output steps

Basically, if I understand you correctly, remove all the grey lines stuff from the larger version?

Yeah, ok, I guess using the multitool blobs is a good approach to avoid making things look like they happen sequentially

Oh haha actually now you mention that 😆

Haha, no.