I’m sharing BIOSZEN, a lightweight R/Shiny application for data analysis and visualization based on Excel input files. It is designed for quick exploratory analysis and publication-ready plots without needing to write code.
What BIOSZEN does Generates common plots from Excel tables: boxplots, bar plots, violin plots, curve plots, stacked plots, and correlation plots Runs normality tests: Shapiro–Wilk, Kolmogorov–Smirnov, Anderson–Darling Runs significance tests: ANOVA, Kruskal–Wallis, Student’s t-test, Wilcoxon Extracts microbial growth-curve parameters from time-series OD data
Input Excel files (tables/time-series) following the templates described in the documentation.
Output Plots and summary tables (ready to export for reports/manuscripts).
Availability Zenodo record: https://zenodo.org/records/18217522 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18217522
How to run Download the latest release from Zenodo. Unzip the bundle. Launch using the included R/RStudio launcher (instructions are in the package README). The app opens locally in your browser.
If you use BIOSZEN, please cite:
Szenfeld, B. (2026). BIOSZEN (1.0.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18217522
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Show some screenshots of your tool in the docs.
Sell it to us. Convince us with some pretty plots that your tool is worth running.
Few people have the time to go install a tool that they don't know what it does.
Thank you very much for the feedback.
I’ve now added a new “gallery” directory to the BIOSZEN GitHub repository with app screenshots and example outputs for each plot type (boxplot, barplot, violin, curves, stacked, correlation, etc.) so it’s easier to quickly see what the tool does before installing it.
https://github.com/bioszen/BIOSZEN
Show a few plots in the main README so that people don't have to click around so much.
Better yet, just host it shinyapps.io for free with example data loaded.
Thank you for your comments. For now, the app images are already available directly in the README
looks much better, but only include the meaningful plots, download buttons are not relevant to the usage. keep only the science part
the reason one would use your tool
You’re right, I’ve already refined it.