Title:
EvalCellTracings: Multicell Tracing Analysis Tool

  by Phil Goodman

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 % EVALCELLTRACINGS is a graphical exploratory tool to evaluate
% all or a subset of recordings or simulations of neuronal cell
% membrane voltages.
%
% EVALCELLTRACINGS performs any combination of four displays upon
% one or two files of data containing columnwise cell Vm data.
%
% A single filename is specified as the first argument within
% single quotes, optionally contained within {curly braces}.
% Dual filenames must be entered quoted within {curly braces}.
% FILETYPES:
% Suffix '.txt', eg 'file1.txt', will force EVALCELLTRACINGS to read
% ascii data (columns corresponding to cells, rows to voltage).
% Entering just the prefix, eg 'file1' will cause EVALCELLTRACINGS
% to search in sequence for 'file1.mat' [more efficient loading if data
% was saved as .mat], then as ascii with names 'file1' or 'file.txt'.
% It is recommend to use just the 'file1' name convention, because
% EVALCELLTRACINGS will then automatically create 'file1.mat' for
% possible future reloading, without needing to change command line
% script arguments.
%
% All other arguments are optional. If only the filename(s) are
% provided, a 25% sample of raw cell tracings is displayed.
%
% Here are the four types of displays:
% (see below for parameter options for each of these display types)
%
% RAWTRACINGS Just what it says. If 2 files are provided,
% the window will be split vertically and color-coded.
%
% AVERAGING Plot of 100 msec-window moving average firing rate
% across all spiking cells. If 2 files are provided,
% the window will be split vertically and color-coded.
%
% WINDOWING For several time windows, show fraction of cells
% firing (each window shifted a tick at a time).
%
% STROBE For several randomly selected cells, plots markers
% for a sample of other cells with coincident firing.
% For 2 files, splits figure vertically showing same cell
% pairs for each file.
%
% PHASE For 3 randomly selected pairs of cells, plots subthreshold
% membrane voltage of one cell on x-axis and the other on y-axis.
% x=y diagooal line indicates similar tracings; parallel indicates
% correlated activation. Spacing of dots indicates rate of
% movement between phase points. Coloration indicates whether
% both cells are below Vrest (black), only one is below Vrest
% (blue), both are between Vrest and threshold (green). Red
% asterix at border indicate phase location at onset of a spike.
Posted on:08 Aug 2003