Tag: analysis

Python IDEs for science

xcorr has done a nice series of reviews of IDEs for scientific Python: First, Second, Third

Previously
Online scientific Python
NEURON and Python



Commoditizing population calcium imaging analysis

More open source software to check out.

Two-Photon Processor and SeNeCA – A freely available software package to process…



Going back to Cali

No. I don’t think so.
Anyways, CaliCode is a resource for population calcium imaging. It covers topics from inferring action potential trains from imaging data (hat tip to JV), to image processing and topical papers….



Make MATLAB text you

Patrick Mineault covered this back in November in his always interesting xcorr blog.

Using some…



Online Scientific Python: Wakari

If you like Python, want to analyze data online, and are interested in a standardized environment that can be easily shared, read on:

Continuum Analytics is offering a new beta: Wakari. You can register…



SOFA, open stats

If you’d like to read some deep, wide-ranging philosophical discussions about R, an open statistics software package, then I wonder why we’re friends. But since we are, here are some links, you psychopath:
“R is a programming language missing a GUI”



GIMP 2.8

GIMP is an open source image editing program. You can use it for a lot of the same things Adobe Photoshop is used for.

They just released version 2.8 (release notes).

In addition to GIMP,…



Nature article on releasing source code

Nature just published a 4-page perspective article on the important of releasing the source code for programs used in scientific research. The authors emphasize the importance of reproducibility for results that…



OpenElectrophy – for multielectrode recordings

OpenElectrophy is a somewhat mature, actively developed, open source program for analyzing data from multielectrode recordings. It makes heavy use of Python and SQL and is developed by a team of French researchers including…



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)



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.



Visualizations

Visual.ly recently posted a list of the top visualizations of 2011. This is a map of the world in which Twitter tweets…



NEURON + Python in OSX

Post by Christoph Schmidt-Hieber

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Here are some relatively pain-free instructions to get NEURON to run with Python support on OS X.

1. Install XCode 3.x. XCode 4 will not work (*). You…



MATLAB Mobile 2.0: cloud computing

MATLAB Mobile is a way to use MATLAB from an iOS device. It’s cute, but a bit odd, because you used to need to have MATLAB running on your own server in order…



Taro Tools and PPT for Igor Pro

Last Friday afternoon to Saturday morning I had a marathon data analysis session. It was almost completely in Igor Pro. I used TaroTools so heavily that I dropped Taro another thank you note. It’s really saved me so much programming and analysis time. I highly recommend checking it out. Prof. Ishikawa…