Monthly archives: February, 2015

Remote, web-based analysis

Jeremy Freeman and his lab are developing tools for analyzing data using a workflow that is fundamentally more scalable not only in terms of computing power and data set size, but also in collaboration and sharing. The one-person, one-machine approach to data analysis can be highly efficient,…



SLAB hiring postdocs

SLAB is hiring. See details at the link above (“Now Hiring!!“) or here: http://labrigger.com/blog/now-hiring/



Sound dampening cabinets

Experiment rooms can get noisy, so Labrigger puts the noisy bits in sound dampening cabinets like these. A separate room could be ideal, but this works too. Just put all the noisy equipment (rackmount portions of Ti:Sapph…



FocusStack and StimServer for MATLAB

Dylan Muir and Bjorn Kampa created some MATLAB code for two-photon calcium imaging experiments. First up is FocusStack, which provides a suite of analysis tools. Next up is StimServer, which coordinates visual stimulus generation and presentation. …



Photonics Handbook online reading

When you run out of catalogs to read, Photonics has some nice short articles. It’s all pretty basic, not too complicated. Good for training (e.g., Optical design software, Fiber lasers)



Raspberry Pi 2 and Pi B plus kits for cheap

The Raspberry Pi 2 is here, and thus there are good deals on the Raspberry Pi B+.



SIMA update – for 2p calcium imaging

SIMA has recently been updated (here’s the original Labrigger post):
From the SIMA team:

We have recently released updated versions of the SIMA & ROI Buddy tools for analysis of calcium imaging data (motion correction, segmentation, registration…



NES – NeuroMat – browser-based data collection

NES, from NeuroMat, is an open-source tool to manage clinical data gathered in hospitals and research institutions. Here’s their github link. More info from the lab.