Monthly archives: January, 2013

More references

Wolfgang Becker just gave a nice talk at the Berkeley Advanced Imaging Methods meeting.

I should add the Becker-Hinkl literature to the list of online references.

Previously
Catalogs as textbooks
Troubleshooting fluorescence microscopy



PubPeer Anonymous

You can now post comments on PubPeer completely anonymously. Not even a login is required.

PubPeer has always allowed anonymous comments, but it used to be that you had to log in, so the admins know…



Markram’s Millions

Henry Markram got his wish. He was just awarded 500,000,000 Euros to build a computer model of the brain. In NIH terms, that’s over 100 R01s…



Electrophysiology software

Unenthusiastic about spending thousands of dollars on electrophysiology software like pCLAMP? Try the free and open source Strathclyde Electrophysiology Software. It’s a suite of programs for recording and analyzing signals from intracellular electrophysiology experiments. It’s…



Get the computation done

Programming that happens in labs is typically rushed and sloppy. The goal is to get the job done right, and, almost as important,…



Make MATLAB text you

Patrick Mineault covered this back in November in his always interesting xcorr blog.

Using some small code…



Online course materials

There are a lot of online, open course materials, e.g. MIT’s OpenCourseWare and Open.Michigan. …



Photoswitchable GECI

Many red fluorescent proteins go through a green fluorescent stage prior to becoming fully folded into their mature red fluorescent state. In fact, some proteins can be photoswitched in and/or out of their mature red state,…



EMCCD Specs

Editorial preface: Labrigger takes submissions from anyone. We post them if they’re potentially useful. In this case, we received some material from a commercial source. Labrigger is not endorsing their products. But we recognize that the…