Tag: electrophysiology

StimFit

Christoph Schmidt-Hieber and his collaborators Guzman and Schlogel have developed a cross platform (Linux, Windows, and OS X) application for analyzing electrophysiology data. Here’s the paper (open access). And here’s the code’s website.

A…



ACQ4: A Python-based open source system for neurophysiology

Luke Campagnola, Megan Kratz, and Paul Manis recently published their in-house software for neurophysiology experiments. It’s an extensive set of tools, including multiphoton imaging, photostimulation mapping, image mosaic construction, electrophysiology, and more.

Website: acq4.org



Sensapex piezo manipulators… update

Labrigger covered Sensapex’s tiny manipulators in the past. Since then, Sensapex has broadened their offerings a bit.



Open Ephys

Open Ephys is a well-developed, extensive open hardware solution for extracellular electrophysiology.

Founded by Josh Siegle and Jakob Voigts, its motivation resonantes with Labrigger:

We are not motivated to create new tools for their own sake,…



Electrophysiology software

Unenthusiastic about spending thousands of dollars on electrophysiology software like pCLAMP? Try the free and open source Strathclyde Electrophysiology Software. It’s a suite of programs for recording and analyzing signals from intracellular electrophysiology experiments. It’s…



Tsien’s VoltageFluors

Roger Tsien’s lab recently published the new generation voltage sensitive dye they were presenting at SfN: VoltageFluors. As often when then Tsien Lab takes on a new field, they start by taking a completely new…



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 Samuel…



Sensapex piezo manipulators

Sensapex is the new kid on the block for micromanipulators, and theirs have an ultra small footprint with 20mm of travel on 3 axes. Here are some pictures of one of the first production…



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 keeps…



Another blog added

Xcorr has some nice posts on coding, Plexon systems, analysis, and whatnot. It was just added to the Recommended Blogs section on the right. Some example posts:
A Plexon C++ API on 64-bit Linux



OpenOptogenetics

When Karl Deisseroth started publishing his work on Channelrhodopsin-2, he set up a website to share the resources, including plasmid information, protocols for expression systems, and hardware details. His site, optogenetics.org, is an excellent…



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,…



Single cell electroporation workshop

Michael Hausser’s lab is having a single cell electroporation workshop in London November 1-2. (link)

The application deadline is Thursday, September 30, 2010.



Multichannel recording systems

This is just a quick list of manufacturers/vendors of multielectrode recording hardware, and their roots. Unsurprisingly, they were almost all started by neurophysiologists. It’s interesting how diverse they are, they each seem to have a…