Digital figure files submitted through Editorial Manager must conform to our digital figure guidelines or authors will be asked to revise them.If you have any questions about digital files please contact Trina Arpin Managing Editor of Cell at tarpin@cell.com. 

A graphical abstract should allow readers to quickly gain an understanding of the main take-home message of the paper and is intended to encourage browsing promote interdisciplinary scholarship and help readers identify more quickly which papers are most relevant to their research interests. Examples of this feature can be seen in the online version of articles published in Cell from January 2010 onwards. Graphical abstracts may be submitted at any stage but are only required once a paper has been accepted for publication (it is not necessary to provide a graphical abstract for a new submission). Graphical abstracts can be uploaded in Editorial Manager by selecting "Graphical Abstract" when uploading files. Refer to our digital figure guidelines for graphical abstract preparation details.