Henderson Laboratory
Minimum set standards for computers 1-22

Basic computer standards | Communication | Surveillance | Plotting, Calculation, Simulation

Graphics, image conversion | 3D Imaging, image analysis | Image Deconvolution | Protein visualization

Standards for workstations

Hardware: 3.0GHz i5 2x cores (32 nm) 6MB Cache, 8GB Ram, 2T HD, 64 bit Win7

Basic office - Microsoft Office 2010

PDF's - Adobe acrobat pro 8

CD Creation - Roxio CD Creator

Electronic reference - Endnote 11

Voice to text - Dragon naturally speaking 11

System: FileSync, Encryption, WinZip

Communications

Firefox

Google Chrome

Netmeeting

Mail - Outlook 2010

FTP: SSH Secure Shell

System

Norton Anivirus

Malwarebytes

Zone Alarm Pro

Spydoctor 3.2

AdAware 5.0

SpyBot

SpywareBlaster 3.4

Norton Ghost

Plotting, Calculation, Simulation

Graphpad Prism

MS Excel

MatLab 7.0 / Matlab SDK Morphology / Matlab Lyngby

Graphics,image conversion

Adobe Photoshop 7.0, Image Ready 7.0

Adobe Illustrator 7.0

Corel Graphics Suite 11

Video conversion - AVIedit

Codec conversion - Bink 1.8e and Smacker 4.2b

3D Imaging / image analysis (Freeware)

Neuromantic (Primary viewer):    Neural Morphology

IMAGEJ (use with Henderson plugins):    Basic Image Analysis

MRIcro/n from Chris Rorden (Primary viewer):    MRI, PET, CT, ET

OCCI VIewer:    MRI and 3D neural imaging

Image Surfer Manual:    MRI and 3D imaging

MIPAV:    MRI analysis

ParaView:    Image Analysis

CARET:    Surface based atlases

GE MicroView:    MRI Analysis

Reconstruct:    Image Analysis

PVIEW / VIAS / NeuroGL:    Image Analysis, Neural morphology

Display and Register:    MRI analysis

GIMP:    Image Analysis

Google SketchUp:    Basic 3D Design

For a map of file interconversions using the above freeware, click HERE

3D surgical atlas of the murin head, click HERE

Image Deconvolution

Nikon Deconvolution software (MIH - University of Toronto)

Protein Visualization

UCSF Chimera (Primary viewer): Protein visualization

Deepview, Swiss-PDB Viewer

RasMol viewer

Cn3D Viewer

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