Teach me how to box-plot!

Boxplots are everywhere! Publishers like boxplots.  But ask some people and most don't even know what a boxplot represents!  Recently I wanted to examine gene expression data between two samples for a certain gene. The gold standard to look at it would be *drum roll*... A boxplot! Interesting fact #1: Did you know a boxplot is called a “box and whiskers plot” as well?  Let's take a look! A boxplot is easily generated in the analysis software R and its interpretation [...]