Monthly archives: January, 2012

MATLAB command locateVal

In two previous posts I shared some MATLAB code to help design collection optics in 2p scopes.
Collection optics for 2p scopes, post 1
Collection optics for 2p scopes, post 2
It was just brought to my attention that I didn’t include the command locateVal in the code I posted. It’s a very…



BCG Matrix

Here’s a BCG Matrix for scientific papers. One paper is plotted on the graph. At Nature’s Action Potential blog, the editor explains why they accepted it. This is an…



MATLAB Mobile for iOS

On the topic of iOS apps, MATLAB has released v3.0 of their mobile app. The most apparent changes are UI usability improvements.
(MATLAB link, App Store link)



Spectra viewing app for iOS

Zeiss released an iOS app for viewing spectra.

No Android version yet, but Johannes Amon said:

of course I can’t tell you any specifics but at the moment we are evaluating a native port…



NIH stats

Success rate for all grants at NIH in 2011 = 18 %
Success rate for New Investigators = 15%

More stats at Sally Rockey’s blog.



Software for visual psychophysics

This site has a nice big list of software for visual psychophysics. It’s very extensive and includes free as well as commercial solutions: visual stimuli, analysis, teaching, hardware, and more.



Virtual desktops on Windows

Virtual desktops are used to manage screen real estate. A user might have a bunch of web browsers open on the desktop, and then hit a key to switch to a nice clean desktop (the…



More MATLAB learning

On the topic of MATLAB learning materials (covered previously here and lots more MATLAB stuff here), MIT has some online courses freely available. Here’s an “aggressively gentle” intro to MATLAB, and …



Use ScanImage? Support it. It’s free.

ScanImage is an excellent software package for controlling 2p scopes. It’s free and open source. It’s been actively developed and released to the…