General Opthalmology
Anatomy
Color & Vision
Databases
Journals
| American Academy of Ophthalmology | |
| American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus | |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology | |
| British Retinitis Pigmentosa Society | The BRPS is a charity which seeks to help its members live with and overcome their visual problems. It also promotes research related to the causes and treatment of RP. |
| Check Yearly Eye Exams | The Vision Council of America's site |
| CIBAVision Ophthalmology Link | |
| European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons | Includes selected articles from the European Journal of Implant and Refractive Surgery |
| Eye cancer | Educational web-site about the diagnosis and treatment of ocular tumors, eye cancer, and orbital diseases. |
| Eye disease information and resources | The information is provided by the Schepens Eye Research Institute, which is the largest independent eye research institute in America. |
| Internet Ophthalmology | |
| Macular Degeneration Network | Information for patients suffering from macular degeneration |
| Macular Vision Research Foundation | Site for people with macular degeneration and people who care about people with macular degeneration. |
| National Eye Institute | NEI's Home Page |
| Ophtalmic Hyperguide | Ophthalmic hyperguide with tutorials, videos, and lectures. |
| The Glaucoma Home Page | Information for patients. |
Anatomy
| Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology of the Human Eye | Overview authored by Dr. Ted M. Montgomery |
| Eye Anatomy | University of Kansas Medical Center Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology |
| Functional Retinal Morphology | Detailed description of various eye cells and eye physiology |
| Retina Reference | Discusses microanatomy of the retina, anatomy of the eye, synapses, neurotransmitters, as well as a bibliography and Internet links. (Peter Sterling's Lab at Penn) |
| Sensory Physiology | A presentation from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| Webvision | Beautifully illustrated, well documented presentation of how the visual system works, authored & edited by Drs. Helga Kolb, Eduardo Fernandez & Ralph Nelson. |
Color & Vision
| Causes of Colour | Explanations about the origin of "colour" in nature, how we perceive colour, and colour deficiencies. |
| ELA Vision and Color Directory | Site providing links to numerous websites related to light vision and color. |
| Important Dates in Vision Science | Chronology of the history of vision science beginning with the 17th century. |
Databases
| BodyMap | Allows user to select genes, known or novel, by their expression patterns. Search for genes expressed in two or more tissues is possible. |
| Entrez Gene | Unified query environment for known genes. |
| EyeBrowse | Visualization tool for eye ESTs. |
| GDB - Genome Data Base | Official database for the annotation of the human genome. |
| GenBank | Primary database for all sequence data. |
| GeneCards | The GeneCards Encyclopedia integrates a subset of the information stored in major data sources dealing with human genes and their products. |
| Human Gene Mutation Database | Website containing links to all databases related to gene mutations. |
| NEIBank | Website containing complete information about ESTs sequenced from diverse eye cDNA libraries derived from various species. |
| OMIM | Catalog of human genes and genetic disorders. |
| RetNet | Provides information and links related to mapped and cloned retinal disease genes. |
| SOURCE | Unification tool which collects and compiles data from many scientific databases for Homo sapiens, Mus musculus, and Rattus norvegicus into easy to navigate GeneReports. Especially useful is the Batch search function. |
| TIGR - The Institute for Genomic Research | Website providing structural, functional and comparative analysis of genomes and gene products from a wide variety of organisms. |
| UniGene National Center for Biotechnology Information | Collection of non-redundant sets of gene-oriented clusters. Tissue expression and mapping information is also provided. |
Journals
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