Database analysis and visualization of simulated and recorded electrophysiological data with PANDORA's Toolbox in Matlab

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Cengiz Gunay, Emory University; Dieter Jaeger, Emory University
• Language: English
• Date: 2008-07-11
• Publisher: Springer Nature
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © 2008, Günay and Jaeger; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
• License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic
• Final Published Version (URL): https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-9-S1-P82
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: BMC Neuroscience
• Volume: 9
• Issue: S1
• Start Page: P82
• Grant/Funding Information: This work was supported by NINDS R01-NS039852 and NIMH R01-MH065634.
• Keywords: brain connectivity; stimulus magnitude; channel density; electrophysiological data; electrophysiological analysis
• Research Categories: Biology, Neuroscience

Abstract

We developed a generic database-supported analysis and visualization software, PANDORA, for research projects with large datasets and many parameters. PANDORA supports analyzing electrophysiological data from intracellular recordings and from computer simulations of compartmental neuron models. An easy querying system matches the power of SQL databases, while the Matlab computing environment provides specialized numeric processing, analysis and visualization tools. PANDORA can be used for organizing and keeping track of complex physiological (e.g., recording channel, stimulus magnitude) or computer simulation (e.g., ion channel densities, kinetics, compartment lengths) parameters of a single neuron or network model.