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he is also renowned for being the author of “the Benois de la Danse” award the ballet Oscar at the Bolshoi Theatre named by Igor in tribute to his international multicultural ascendancy of at least 50 artists summarized as the Benois family. He has landmark public sculptures, in England, France, Switzerland, and Bulgaria…. Even if you don’t typically use Igor Pro for analysis, PPT, NeuroMatic, and TaroTools may be handy enough to justify having a copy.For the past 36 years his art has been exhibited in many European countries, including Russia and North America. All in all, this is a really handy set of utilities to have around. In addition to the calcium imaging tools seen in the PPT menu above, there are also utilities for Boltzmann fits, dose-response curves, Fura calibration, and more. The next four entries on the PPT menu are all very handy calculators.Īnd here’s one for computing the liquid junction potential. So in way, it’s an inadvertent combination of publishing and data-sharing. BTW- the traces can easily be extracted from the PDF. I’ve seen PDFs from journals that are over 30MB.

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If you ever grow annoyed at how long it takes your PDF reader to draw a figure with traces, it’s because the authors didn’t down sample when they should have. Downsampling is important for figure presentation not only because it makes the traces look nicer, but it makes the PDFs load faster too. This is because we’ve run into resolution limits. Note that the non-downsampled trace (top) has sample points sharing the same x-coordinate. Now zoom in some more and select the traces. Note that the non-downsampled trace looks strange and hairy. The trace below it is down sampled 10-fold.

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The top trace is at full resolution: 50 kHz sampling. If you have several seconds of data sampled at 50 kHz and then shrink it down to just an inch wide, you quickly run into resolution limits and data points that should be right next to each other end up on top of each other. “Slim Waves” downsamples waves, which I’ve learned is very important for making nice looking figures. “Plot Waves” plots selected waves, but instead of Igor Pro’s default plotting with all the waves sharing the same y-axis, each wave is plotted on a separate y-axis, stacked vertically, against the same x-axis. Feed in some waves, and get the mean, SD, and SEM out. It’s actually a very fast and easy-to-use wave average function. “Wave Statistics”, despite the similarity in name, is actually not like the native command WaveStats at all. After installing, it adds a PPT menu to the Igor menu bar.Īs you can see, it’s built to load in HEKA data files, but the later entries are very general purpose.

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It’s development has perhaps slowed, but is still regularly updated (last update was March 2011). PPT (Patcher’s Power Tools) was developed in Neher’s lab ( download, about). In this post, I’ll highlight it in a bit more detail. However, there weren’t any PPT screenshots, nor was there much information.

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The last time Labrigger covered Igor Pro software for electrophysiology, TaroTools, Neuromatic (last update was in 2008, but it has aged fine and is still very handy), and PPT were all mentioned. Ishikawa keeps it up to date (last update, May 2011), so it’s not abandonware.

It’s really saved me so much programming and analysis time. I used TaroTools so heavily that I dropped Taro another thank you note. Last Friday afternoon to Saturday morning I had a marathon data analysis session.