Note: I'm trying to keep these up to date and the links working. Please report any problems and/or suggestions to me.
Chick embryology and genetics resources |
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Developmental Biology Resources |
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Developmental Biology Journals |
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Societies |
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Companies, Antibody banks, etc. |
- Bioptechs (warm stages/chambers for microscopes)
- Bright Instruments (cryostats)
- BTX (in ovo electroporation systems - *** RIDICULOUSLY EXPENSIVE ***)
- Custom Sequencing by MWG-Biotech
- Developmental Biology Hybridoma Bank (non-profit antibody bank)
- FHC (custom-made electrodes)
- Fine Science Tools (excellent range of dissecting tools but expensive)
- Gene Tools (Morpholinos - *** THINK first, order them second ***)
- Goodfellow Metals (every kind of metal wire, foils, etc.)
- Intracel (excellent alternative to BTX: pulse generator for electroporation)
- Kopf instruments (vertical electrode pullers)
- Low-cost wine storage adaptors (low cost alternative to cooled incubators)
- Lyon (incubators for chick and other bird eggs)
- Molecular Probes (THE source for fluorescent probes of every kind)
- NIH Image (free imaging software)
- Olympus UK
- Origen Therapeutics
- R&D Systems (purified factors, anti-cytokine antibodies, etc. but EXPENSIVE)
- (anyone know a reliable, cheaper source?)
- SciWeb (the Life Sciences Web Page)
- Universal Imaging (Metamorph software - excellent but OVERPRICED, especially post-sale support/contracts)
- Zeiss UK
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Databases |
- WWW Blast at NCBI
- Discontiguous BLAST optimised for cross-species comparisons (use for chick whole genome BLASTing)
- Motif scan in a protein sequence
- Expasy database (suite for analysing protein motifs, etc.)
- Web-based ClustalW multiple sequence alignment (at BCM)
- CoSMoS (protein sequence motif search at NCBI)
- CHICKMAP - Chicken genome mapping and EST database
- XREF db
- Tools for Molecular Biology (Japan)
- Medline (PubMed Advanced Boolean Search)
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