Useful Links
Useful links:
General
– Research integrity and Image processing (html)
– Microscopy resources- microlist.org or microscopy.info
– Tips for light microscopy (University of Chicago, IMCF, pdf)
– Life Technologies – Handbook (html)
Educational:
– e-learning: iBiology / BioChemWeb
– Collected image analyses (imagescience.org)
– Super Resolution WIKI / STORM WIKI / OMX SIM WIKI
– Basics in Microscopy (PDF, Dr. Arne Zeitz, EPFL, Lausanne) /
– Molecular expressions
– Nikon Microscopy 4U
– Zeiss online campus
– Olympus microscopy resource center
– Leica Science lab
Societies:
– Bioimaging Utrecht (BUI)
– Utrecht life Sciences (ULS)
– Nederlandse Vereniging voor Microscopie (NVvM)
– European Microscopy Society (EMS)
– Royal Miroscopy Society (UK)
– Microscopy Society of America (MSA)
Fora:
– Confocal Microscopy List
– ImageJ
– Image freeware forum- image.sc (FIJI, ICY, Cell Profiler etc.) –
– ImageJ User Guide (html)
– ImageJ tutorial by Peter Bankhead Queens Univ. Belfast (2014)
– Bitplane Imaris forum / tutorials
Spectra of fluorochromes:
– FPbase
– Life Technologies Spectra viewer
– BD Fluorescence Spectrum Viewer
– Chroma spectra viewer
– Fluorescent dye spectra (Univ. Arizona)
– Evrogen spectra viewer (for fluorproteins)
– More in Fluorophores.org (Univ. Graz)
Manufactures:
Microscopes: Leica / Nikon / Zeiss / Evident / Perkin elmer / API / 3i / Bruker / CrestOptics / Confocal.nl /
Cameras: Andor / Photometrics / Hamamatsu
Filters: Chroma/ Semrock / Thorlabs
Lenses: NIKON /ZEISS/ LEICA/ Evident
Imaging Chambers:
Manufacturer | Dish format 35 mm | Slide format |
Ibidi (many formats, check site, recomm. glass bottom) | 81158 | 81817 (18w) |
Greiner CellView | 627870 (4w) | 543078 (10w) |
WPI- Fluorodish | FD35-100 / FD35-10 | |
Thermo Attofluor 25 mm coverslip holder | A7816 | |
Nunc LabTek II (odd format – poor fit in holders) | 155409PK (8w) | |
MatTek (35 mm dish) | P35G-15-14C | |
CellVis (18 well slide) | C18-1.5H (18w) |
Image Dbase management
– Open Microscopy Environment (OME)
– Center for Bio-image Informatics (Bisque)
General:
– Reference managing: Mendeley (no longer open source) / Zotero
– Lab inventory management: Quartzy
– eLabJournal: Benchling / RSpace / Notion / Joplin
Molecular biology:
– vector exchange: Addgene / Kerafast
– sequence analyses: Snapgene / Serial cloner / Genecompiler / Benchling / ApE