This page offers a list of useful links relevent to retinal cell biology.
Eye Anatomy & Development
The Eye and sense of vision- by David L. Atkins
Webvision
Retnet - disease genes of the eye
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Brain Anatomy
Allen Brain Atlas
Digimorph - Gallus gallus, Day12 to Day 20; Dr. Timothy Rowe - NSF Digital Library at UT Austin
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Development & Cell Signaling
The Cadherin Resource
The Wnt Homepage
Guide to Eph receptor signaling
Developmental biology - Gilbert's
WWW Developmental Biology - many links
The homeobox page
Retina Development
Clif Tabin
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Microscopy & Imaging
Scott Fraser (lots of imaging) / Caltech
Current Protocols at Welch library
Fluorochrome spectra
Fluorochrome table
NIKON MicroscopyU
Photoshop for Research
Wright Cell Imaging Facility
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Tools
Vassar Stats - website for biostatistics
Vassar Stats - explanation of basic biostats
Hopkins
Blackboard - course documents at hopkins - login required.
COREStore - order reagents here
Hopkins Genetic Core Resources Facility - Sequencing
The Synthesis and Sequence Facility - in the BRB building
Johns Hopkins Neuroscience Department
Welch Medical Library
Wilmer Eye Institute
Wilmer - CORE imaging signup
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Synaptogenesis
Function and distribution of synaptic molecules - very useful
Retina Reference- by Lance Hahn: Neurochemicals
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Special Interest
ARVO - Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
SFN - Society for Neuroscience
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Free Biology Software Downloads
4 Peaks-program for reading DNA sequencing files. ****
Bioperl
EnzymeX- very useful restriction enzyme program *****
The GIMP- looking for a free replacement for photoshop? well look no further! ****
Image J- scientific image processing "formerly NIH image" ****
iRNAi2.0- freeware for designing siRNA ****
Jalview- Java based protein sequence alignment *****
OME- open microscopy environment
Pfaat- protein family alignment tool ***
Sequence Analysis- versatile sequence analysis tool from Informagen ****
XVTrack from Caltech