1. When you see this in the figure:
blob
thing

2. Draw this using the provided tools:

3. These are called “nodes”
This is called an “edge”

4. blob
thing
What if there’s no shape around the text?

5. Doesn’t matter - “thing” is still a node

6. blob
ThinG-β

7. Write upper-case and lower-case letters exactly as you see
them in the figure. Also write Greek characters exactly as you
see them (use the provided character picker).

8. blob
truck
thing

10. blob
thing

11. Set the edge type to inhibits (Choose “--|” from the dropdown)

12. The locations of the nodes and edges do not
have to exactly match the figure. Just put them
in approximately the same arrangement as you
see in the figure.

13. blob
TNF
Some objects in the figure may be labeled with abbreviations

14. Click the article tab, and search for the
abbreviation using your browser’s
search (you can usually access search
with ctrl+F)

15. Then when you add the node, type the
long name that you found in the article
in the field

16. blob
truck
thing
What if a node points to an edge?

17. Create an intermediate node with name = “_” (underscore). Both the
edges to and from the intermediate node should have the “type”
(activate/inhibit) according to the figure.

18. blob
truck
boat
thing

20. activation
inhibition
blob
truck
boat
thing
Sometimes a figure will have a legend indicating whether some
interactions should be “activate” or “inhibit”.

22. blob
thing
TEXAS

23. Please note you can’t add a “container” (“parent”) node to an existing
“child” node. You have to create the “parent” (in this case, “TEXAS”)
first, and then create the children.

24. Also note: this is not the same as just dragging nodes to be visually on
top of another node. You have to add them as child nodes.

25. blob
thing
Sometimes you may find objects grouped in a container that is not
named.

26. Just make a parent node with no name. If everything in the figure is
inside one container, you don’t need to create that container – it’s
already assumed that everything goes together. Just create the
containers if they group items inside the figure.

27. blob
P
blob
thing
Some objects may have a little “P” stuck on them, or they might say
“phosphorylated”.

28. Check the box in the node dialog for “phosphorylated” and the node text
will get a purple outline to indicate the change.

29. blob
blobulation
thing
Sometimes there will be text that is “floating” (not attached to anything)

31. blob
Rooster
thing
Sometimes multiple objects will appear to be stuck together. Note that
in this case the edge appears to originate from “blob”.

32. Create a parent node and name it “_complex_”. While “blob” and
“Rooster” are together in “_complex_”, the connection is between
“blob” and “thing”.

33. blob
Rooster
thing
Other times the edge may appear to originate from “both” objects

34. In this case the connection is between “_complex_” and “thing”. Use
your best judgment to decide where the connection should come from.

35. blob &
Rooster
thing
What if one object seems to contain multiple labels?

36. Group the two objects together with a parent node. No need for the
“_complex_” label here.