Tag: MATLAB

Sep052011September 5, 2011September 5, 20110Commentby L.

Rename variables in MATLAB

Posted in Software, Tips

MATLAB version R2011b has just been released. The new format for error messages is not as mind blowing as you might have heard. However, there’s one cute little function…

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Jul262011July 26, 2011July 26, 20111Commentby L.

MATLAB Mobile 2.0: cloud computing

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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 to…

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Jun042011June 4, 2011June 4, 20110Commentby L.

MATLAB Menagerie

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There are several MATLAB-related items to post, but individually they don’t amount to much, so I’ll just…

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Mar032011March 3, 2011March 3, 20110Commentby L.

More MATLAB code for 2p scope design

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In the last post, I mentioned how the “minification” factor (the diameter of the PMT detector divided by the diameter…

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Feb262011February 26, 2011February 26, 20112Commentsby L.

MATLAB code for designing collection optics for 2p scopes

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The Tsai book chapter from Ron Frostig’s CRC book is a great resource for building your own 2p microscope. In…

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Sep152010September 15, 2010September 15, 20100Commentby L.

Outfitting a lab on the cheap

Posted in Hardware, Tips

A friend of mine does a lot of molecular biology and keeps an incubator at home so she can run a reaction and stop it some time at night without having to make…

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Sep102010September 10, 2010September 10, 20103Commentsby L.

TIFFs in MATLAB

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MATLAB uses the open source library libtiff to write TIFF files, or they did the last time I asked. I work with multipage TIFFs a lot, and I find MATLAB is not…

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Aug192010August 19, 2010August 17, 20103Commentsby L.

Colorblind-proof two color scheme

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The usual color scheme for showing co-localization is to overlay a red image and a green image and have the yellow portions show the sites of co-localization. This is problematic since red-green colorblind…

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