We’ve been recording neurons on Utah arrays for ~3 years now. That creates a lot of data, and we keep buying more drives (above – there’s about 30TB of storage on the hub computer). Drives themselves are cheap; it’s backing up the data which becomes expensive in the long run, both in terms of bandwidth … More Compressing wideband signals with FLAC
Regular readers of the blog will remember my previous struggles reading .plx files on platforms other than Windows. I got contacted by none other than Plexon boss Harvey Wiggins about this. I’m happy to report that they’ve posted an updated Matlab offline SDK which compiles on 32- and 64-bit Linux. It may be possible to … More Plexon Matlab API now available for Linux
Update (12/10/2011): Huang Xin has written better Python script based on ctypes, part of RealTimeElectrophy. I posted a few days ago on solutions for reading .plx files on Mac/Linux, and was kind of bummed out that in spite of doing a thorough background search I couldn’t find a really satisfying solution to the problem. So … More Reading .plx files in Mac/Linux: a Python script
Updates (12/10 /2011): Plexon now offers a mex extension for Matlab which compiles on Linux and Mac. I have a Python .plx file reader available, and Huang Xin has a better one based on ctypes, part of RealTimeElectrophy. Plexon hardware is meant to interface with Windows-only tools (including recording software). I think that for such … More Reading Plexon files in Linux or Mac
Plexon has a Matlab API that can be used to stream wideband, LFP and spike data for real-time processing. It’s available in the Downloads section of the Plexon website under the name “Matlab client development kit”. They include several sample applications with the API, including a real-time LFP monitor. However, it’s missing a few features … More Wideband monitor for Plexon hardware
