Links
Here are some of the web sites that our lab uses regularly:
Swarthmore linksLeica SP5 AOBS confocal sign up
Lab Wiki (requires log in)
Blackboard (requires log in)
Arabidopsis links
TAIR - Order stocks, find publications associated with your genes, get the latest Arabidopsis news
Genevestigator - Microarray data and analysis
Ensemble genome browser - Browse the Arabidopsis genome
BAR - Microarray analysis tools including the eFP browser, clustering, and promoter analysis tools
T-DNA express - Find and order T-DNA insertions and cDNA clones
ATTED - Arabidopsis trans-factor and cis-element prediction database and co-expressed genes
How to grow Arabidopsis from Purdue University
POLYMORPH Polymorphism data for Arabidopsis accessions and marker design tools
Marker Tracker More CAPS marker design tools
Tools and information
Practicing Safe Science - Lab safety training video
MSDS database - MSDS chemical safety information
CoGe - Comparative genomics platform
BLAST - Basic Local Alignment Search Tools at NCBI
BioEdit - Local BLAST with custom databases, sequence alignment, trace viewing, restriction mapping, plasmid drawing and many more tools (Windows only)
Pubmed - Literature searches
Primer3 - Primer design
MircoscopyU - Microscopy information and tutorials
ImageJ - Image processing and analysis software
- .lif reader for ImageJ - Manipulate Leica .lif files in ImageJ
- LAS AF Lite - Leica software download (Windows only)
- Calibration information for lab Tucsen cameras
- Scale bars with ImageJ
Micro-Manager microscopy automation software
A computational image analysis glossary for biologists
- Essentials of Real Time PCR
How to give an academic talk
practice images for making figures