In article <4j03cs$c9 at roger.interlynx.net>,
lthomsen at interlynx.net (Lars Thomsen) wrote:
>>I'm looking for software that can do Spike analysis of data imported
>from ASCII files.
Why do you want to do this? Storing sampled data, which are usually
binary data (commonly 12 or 16bit integers, depending on the hardware
used for sampling) consume much less space on your harddisk.
>I have previously been using Spike2 from Cambridge Electronic Design.
>However, that software need the data to been in the special Spike2
>format and you can only obtain that by sampling your data with a 1401+
>from CED.
If you have the information how the data-format of Spike2 looks like it
should be easy to write a program which converts the data from every
sampling device. Most of the software I know write the data as integers
to the disk. Mostly in a way like Point1 Channel1; point1 Channel2; point2
channel1 and so on. Somewhat more difficult is the interprtation of the
header where informations on sampling rates etc are stored. But this
iformation is often provided from the vendor (programmer).
>Standford Graphics is ideal to plot the data, because it can work with
>really big spreedsheets many (many millions of rows). But Standford G
>can do the analysis of the Spikes. (amplitude, width raise, time etc)
>>Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
>
For mostly commercial software look at:
http://www.lm.com/~nab/neurosoft.html
there is a huge number of useful links concerning software used in
neuroscience.
Hope this helps
Michael
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