Links to other Low Cost* / No Cost Software |
for Synaptic Plasticity related software |
(If you have any additional program suggestions, please let me know) |
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Acquisition and Analysis |
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| AxoGraph X - by Axograph Scientific (John Clements, low cost) | |
| Can do LTP analyses of Axon *.ABF files (and WinLTP ADsweep files) | |
| Axograph for Windows is available | |
| Uses M-Series and Axon Digidata 132x boards | |
AxoScope - by Molecular Devices (formerly Axon Instruments, can be freely downloaded) |
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Use to view WinLTP generated gap-free Axon Binary Files (*.ABF). |
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Use to extract sections in WinLTP generated generated gap-free Axon Binary Files (*.ABF) |
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| Uses Axon Digidata 132x boards | |
| GePulse - by Michael Pusch of Istituto di Biofisica CNR (free) | |
| Uses M-Series boards | |
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jClamp - by Joseph Santos-Sacchi of SciSoft and Yale University (low cost) |
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| Uses Axon Digidata 132x boards | |
Nclamp - by Angus Silver's lab at the University College London (free) |
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| Is an IGOR program | |
| Uses M-Series boards | |
| Slice - by Lee, DiMattina, and Sanes at New York University (free) | |
| Is an IGOR program | |
WinWCP and WinEDR - by John Dempster, the Strathclyde University Electrophysiology suite (free to academic users) |
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Uses M-Series boards and Axon Digidata 132x boards |
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Analysis Only |
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Chronux - by Partha Mitra's laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories (free) |
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| Digital signal processing for electrophysiological signals using MATLAB | |
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DataView - by Bill Heitler at the University of St. Andrews (low cost) |
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Use to detect and extract spontaneous events in WinLTP generated generated gap-free Axon Binary Files (*.ABF) |
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Good for detecting spontaneous epileptic events |
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Detected events can then be saved to ASCII txt files and reanalyzed with WinLTP |
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| Klustakwick - by Ken Harris at Rutgurs University (free) | |
| NeuroScope and Klusters - by Hazan, Zugaro and Buzsáki at The State University of New Jersey, Newark (free) | |
MiniAnalysis Program - by Justin Lee of Synaptosoft (low cost) |
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Use to detect spontaneous events in WinLTP generated generated gap-free Axon Binary Files (*.ABF) |
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| Can get decay constants for multiple spontaneous or triggered synaptic potentials | |
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Can do LTP analyses of Axon *.ABF files (and WinLTP ADsweep files) |
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StimFit32 - by Christoph Schmidt-Hieber (of the Peter Jonas lab) ( free) |
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| Can get decay constants for synaptic potentials, event detection, power spectrum | |
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Can directly analyze single sweep WinLTP ADsweep data files, and Axon Binary Files (*.ABF) |
Other Interesting Stuff |
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David Colquhoun's single channel analysis programs (free to academic users) |
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| MATLAB Data Acquisition Tool Box | |
| Uses M-Series boards | |
QUB - by the Qin, Sachs and Auerbach labs at the State University of New York at Buffalo (free) |
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| Used for single channel data acquisition and analysis | |
| Uses M-Series boards |
* I arbitrarily define low cost as a liscense for a program costing less than $1000 per copy. Most of these low cost programs are well below $1000 per copy.