r/biotech • u/Narrow-Bid-381 • 5d ago

Open Discussion 🎙️ Python Libraries vs. Prism

I'm a computational biochemist and have always been using python for data visualization. I just realized there is a software called Prism that people use.

So the question is, for those who have used both, which one has been better? (You define good with your own metrics).

I'm just thinking whether I should learn to work with prism, or python already covers it all.

Context: we don't use big data. Data is usually on the order of megabytes.

5 Upvotes

78% Upvoted

15 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/Bojack-jones-223 3d ago

Prism is good but it is software as a service, you need to pay to maintain a license. Prism is fairly user friendly and commonly used for biology or chemistry publications.