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  • Learn about the precise description of AMD disease pathobiology by using AMD genetic risk factors as sentinels for specific RPE signaling pathways and for changes in RPE physiology.

  • NEI has made the Ocular Proteome dataset available so that researchers can analyze protein changes related to genetic eye diseases. The dataset holds structures for over 100 proteins and over 1 million variants, cataloging the proteins atomic structures and stability generated by global computational mutagenesis.

  • A software package for segmenting the boundaries of cone photoreceptors in non-confocal adaptive optics images such as split detection. This software was primarily developed by Jianfei Liu, Andrei Volkov, and Johnny Tam, with research support from the Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health, National Eye Institute. Additional details about the algorithms used can be found in the reference listed below.