Useful links

Useful links
Tutorials
Fluorescent Spectra
Software
Microscopy and Imaging (commercial reference sites)
  • chroma

    Optical filters - check also their resources that contain useful information about filters in general (handbook and application notes), and fluorescent protein filters (GFP catalog and application notes)
  • hamamatsu

    CCD cameras, light sources, lasers, fibre optics etc.

  • ibid

    Special microscopy slides

  • leica microsystems

    Major microscope manufacturer
  • mattek

    Glass bottom culture dishes for live cell imaging
  • nikon instruments
Major microscope manufacturer
  • Nikon microscopyμ

    An outstanding web site that offers a wealth of information on confocal microscopy, as well as on wide-field microscopy. Learn about sample preparation, aberrations, and other important aspects of confocal imaging. Based on Molecular Expressions
  • nikon small world

    Nikon's Small World photomicrography competition is open for everyone
  • Olympus lifescience

    Major microscope manufacturer
  • Olympus

    Olympus mircoscopy resource center. Excellent web pages on confocal microscopy, full of useful information on fluorophores, spectral bleed-through, resolution and contrast, objectives etc. Highly recommended. Based on Molecular Expressions
  • Omegafilters

    Optical filter manufacturer
  • Omegafilters Database

    An excellect tool: An interactive database of fluorophore absorption and emission spectra, along with filter set recommendations and accompanying filter spectral curves
  • Perkinelmer

    In vivo imaging systems for whole mice and rats (bioluminescence or fluorescence)
  • Thermofisher content screening

    High-Content Screening (HCS) and Analysis (HCA)
Microscopy and Imaging (non-commercial reference sites)
  • ibiology

    An online course covering all aspects of light microscopy in a series of video lectures
  • Gensat

    NINDS GENSAT BAC Transgenics Project (The Rockefeller University): The Gensat database contains a gene expression atlas of the central nervous system of the mouse based on bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs). In each of the BAC transgenic vectors, endogenous protein coding sequences have been replaced by sequences encoding the EGFP reporter gene.
Microscopy and imaging networks
  • Euro Bioimaging

    Euro-BioImaging is a pan-European infrastructure project whose mission is to build a distributed imaging infrastructure across Europe that will provide open access to innovative biological and medical imaging technologies for European researchers
  • ELMI

    ELMI is a communication network between European scientists working in the field of light microscopy and the manufacturers. BIU is a member of ELMI.
Fluorophores and other molecular/cell biology products
  • Antibodies online

    An antibodies marketplace
  • Takarabio

    Previous Clonetech. Novel Fluorescent Proteins etc.
  • Biosupplynet

    CSHL Press provided web site where you can search  for scientific supplies
  • Cellsignal

    Primary antibodies for signal transduction molecules
  • Evrogen

    Photoactivable fluorescent proteins etc.
  • fpvis
  • Mblintl

    Sells CoralHue fluorescent proteins, also photochromic ones that are turned on or off on demand by exposure to different wavelenghts of light
  • Sigmaaldrich

    Lentiviral-based shRNA vectors for transient or stable transfection, as well as viral particle generation. The complete libraries will target 15000 human and 15000 mouse genes
  • Vectorlabs

    Antibodies as well as other immunohistochemistry /immunofluorescence products, labeled secondary antibodies etc.
Free imaging software
  • Bioimagexd

    Free open source software for analysis, processing and 3D rendering of multi dimensional microscopy images
  • Cellprofiler

    CellProfiler is a free open source software designed to quantitatively measure phenotypes from thousands of images automatically
  • Bio imageanalysis

    Icy provides the software resources to visualize, annotate and quantify bioimaging data
  • Image J

    NIH program for image processing and analysis. (Windows, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, Linux)
  • Image J forum

    Discussion list for ImageJ users and developers
  • Image J archives

    Also list archives
  • Micro manager

    An open source software for image acquisition. ImageJ compatible user interface. Matlab programs can be utilized in Micro-Manager. (Windows, Mac, Linux)
  • epfl plugin

    An ImageJ plugin for the automatic alignment of a source image or a stack to a target image
  • bij isi plugin

    ImageJ plugin for volume rendering by Michael D. Abramoff
  • Image magick

    ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats
  • Stabilazer plugin

    ImageJ plugin that corrects x-y movement of images in time-lapse image stacks
  • KEGG

    KEGG is a 2-D visualization tool for metabolic pathways
  • Code enthought

    Scientific data visualizer
  • Mipav

    Medical Image Processing, Analysis, and Visualization; NIH Java application that enables quantitative analysis and visualization of PET, MRI, CT, and microscopy images
  • Open microscopy

    OME is an open source software project to develop a database-driven system for the quantitative analysis of biological images
  • Vcell

    Virtual Cell software from the National Resource for Cell Analysis and Modeling allows simulation of e.g. FRAP data and membrane diffusion
  • Indiana

    Voxel-based real-time 3D image processing and rendering of multi-channel 3D and 4D data. (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux)
Commercial imaging software
  • leica LAS X

    Leica LAS X software. Lite version available for Windows 7
  • nikon instruments NIS

    Nikon imaging software. NIS-Elements Viewer available for Windows and OS X
  • Huygens Decon

    Huygens deconvolution software, also FluVR volume rendering software
Other imaging facilities