Igor Pro and Electrophysiology

Igor Pro is a data analysis environment specialized for 1D time series data. It has some nice features: it handles data scaling beautifully, it has good built-in help, it generates highly customized and high quality figures, and it’s relatively quick to prototype work flows. It can also be used for data acquisition and machine control. It’s quite popular among electrophysiologists, and I still use it myself.

Here are three free packages for Igor Pro that are handy for electrophysiology.

NeuroMatic

This is by Jason Rothman. It includes support for loading pClamp files, spike detection, event analysis, and all sorts of batch processing. It’s a very thorough kit of analysis tools. (link)

Taro Tools

Written by Taro Ishikawa, this is the best event analysis software I’ve ever used. I’ve used it for spikes, post synaptic potentials/currents, and other events. (link)

Power Patch Tools

Power Patch Tools is a nice suite of analysis tools including calculators for buffered calcium concentration and liquid-junction potential. (download)