Stimfit: Quantifying electrophysiological data with Python

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 8, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Guzman, Segundo J ^a   Schlögl, Alois ^a   Schmidt Hieber, Christoph ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biosignal data formats; Data analysis; Electrophysiology; Free software; Patch clamp; Python

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DECONVOLUTION BASED ALGORITHM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FUNDING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PYTHON; SIMULATION; TEMPLAT EMATCHING ALGORITHM; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISUAL INFORMATION;

EID: 84894262565     PISSN: 16625196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2014.00016     Document Type: Article

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