Bioinformatics pipeline flow chart guidelines? I am going to start work on the Materials and Methods for a paper I contributed to a lot in the bioinformatics processing part. I have seen some papers nowadays tend to first present the processing steps that they followed as a flow chart, to show the reader what happened generally before going into details in the written M&amp;M section.

Are there any specific guidelines for creating this flowchart? Do you have any tips or advice from personal experience?
This sadly doesnt seem to be stated as a question proper for the site as noted in the comments. Perhaps you can rephrase it and add some examples.

From personal experience, UML is widely accepted for the symbols and flow of charts on various charts. There are software to so it easily like DIA (openware), flowchart (online) or Microsoft Visio. But there are plenty of sowftwares to do it. What you must abide to, however, is to be consistent.