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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. |
Ibidi |
Special microscopy slides |
Leica Microsysytems |
Short descriptions on Leica's products |
MatTek |
Glass bottom culture dishes for live cell imaging |
Nikon Instruments |
About Nikon microscopes. On the web page, click on the Microscopy techniques button to find a nice visual presentation on microscopy.
Nikon has also an outstanding web site that offers a weath 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's Small World photomicrography competition is open for everyone. |
Olympus Biosystems |
Info on Olympus microscopes. Olympus has 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 |
Omega |
Optical filters - Curv-o-matic is an excellect tool: An interactive database of fluorophore absorption and emission spectra, along with filter set recommendations and accompanying filter spectral curves |
Perkin-Elmer In Vivo Imaing |
In vivo imaging systems for whole mice and rats (bioluminescence or fluorescence) |
Thermo Scientific |
High content Screening and Analysis. |
| TILL Photonics |
Fluorescence live cell microscopy |
Zeiss Microscopy web page |
Information on Zeiss products. |
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Microscopy and Imaging (non-commercial reference sites) |
Integrated Technologies for In-Vivo Molecular Imaging |
The goal of the Molecular Imaging Integrated Project is to generate and apply novel advanced technology for non-invasive imaging of biomolecular function in living systems ranging from single cells to whole animals. Public events, workshops, and training courses. |
Molecular Expressions |
Excellent microscopy reference for beginners and experts by M. W. Davidson and the Florida State Universisty |
NINDS 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
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Purdue Powerpoint Lecture Slide Sets by Dr. J. Paul Robinson (PUCL) and others |
Powerpoint lectures from the principles of microscopy to applications of confocal microscopy. Also includes lectures on flow cytometry |
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 (European Light Microscopy Initiative) |
ELMI is a communication network between European scientists working in the field of light microscopy and the manufacturers. BIU is a member of ELMI. |
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Fluorophores and other molecular/cell biology products |
| Antibodies-online |
An antibodies marketplace |
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Clontech |
Novel Fluorescent Proteins etc. Part of Takara Bio. |
BioSupplyNet |
CSHL Press provided web site where you can search for scientific supplies |
Cell Signaling |
Primary antibodies for signal transduction molecules |
| eBioscience |
Offering eFluor organic dyes and nanocrystals |
Evrogen |
Photoactivable fluorescent proteins etc. |
Fluorescent Spectra |
A large database by Carl Boswell and George McNamara with more than 350 fluorescent proteins listed |
Invitrogen |
Sells e.g. Molecular Probes products, Zymed immunodetection reagents, Qdots, and antibodies |
Jackson ImmunoResearch Europe |
Labeled secondary antibodies etc. |
MBL International |
Sells CoralHue fluorescent proteins, also photochromic ones that are turned on or off on demand by exposure to different wavelenghts of light. |
Molecular Probes |
Subdivision of Invitrogen. Large selection of fluorescent probes. The excellent Molecular Probes Handbook is available online. Includes Fluorescence Spectra Viewer (if you visit the page for the first time, you first have to select Finland, then continue, to get to the Viewer). |
Sigma-Aldrich's RNAi Consortium shRNA library |
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. |
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Antibodies as well as other immunohistochemistry /immunofluorescence products
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Free imaging software |
BioImageXD |
Free open source software for analysis, processing and 3D rendering of multi dimensional microscopy images. First beta version available. |
CellProfiler |
CellProfiler is a free open source software designed to quantitatively measure phenotypes from thousands of images automatically. |
Gnuplot |
Command-line driven interactive data and function plotting utility |
ImageJ |
NIH program for image processing and analysis. (Windows, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, Linux) |
ImageJ mailing list |
Discussion list for ImageJ users and developers. Also list archives. |
ImageMagick |
ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats |
ImageStabilizer |
ImageJ plugin that corrects x-y movement of images in time-lapse image stacks |
Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
KEGG is a 2-D visualization tool for metabolic pathways |
MayaVi |
Scientific data visualizer |
µManager |
An open source software for image acquisition. ImageJ compatible user interface. Matlab programs can be utilized in Micro-Manager. (Windows, Mac, Linux). |
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 Environment |
OME is an open source software project to develop a database-driven system for the quantitative analysis of biological images |
TurboReg |
An ImageJ plugin for the automatic alignment of a source image or a stack to a target image |
Virtual Cell |
Virtual Cell software from the National Resource for Cell Analysis and Modeling allows simulation of e.g. FRAP data and membrane diffusion. |
VisBio |
VioBIo is designed for visualization and analysis of multidimensional image data (Windows, Mac, Linux) |
VolumeJ |
ImageJ plugin for volume rendering by Michael D. Abramoff. |
Voxx |
Voxel-based real-time 3D image processing and rendering of multi-channel 3D and 4D data. (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux) |
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Commercial imaging software |
Bitplane |
ImarisXT and other imaging software. Free 30 day trial for Imaris Demo |
Intelligent Imaging Innovations |
Slidebook software for image acquisition and analysis |
MediaCybernetics |
Image-Pro and AutoQuant software |
Scientific Volume Imaging |
Huygens deconvolution software, also FluVR volume rendering software |
Soft Imaging System |
Olympus imaging software company that also offers microscopes |
Zeiss |
Zeiss imaging software (Zen, AxioVision, and LSM Image Browser) |
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Other imaging facilities |
Light Microscopy Unit |
Institute of Biotechnology (Viikki Campus) |
Cell Imaging Core |
Turku Centre for Biotechnology |
| Advanced Microscopy Unit |
Electron, confocal and DIC microscopy. At Haartman institute (HFIC, BCIC) |
| Helsinki Functional Imaging Center |
Coordinates the imaging activities in the Helsinki area |
