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https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/project/automated-home-cage-functional-imaging/

Portal provides automated system for mesoscopic functional imaging that allows subjects to self initiate head fixation and imaging within home cage. Developed by University of British Columbia scientists. System for automated head fixation within mouse home cages.

Proper citation: Automated Home-Cage Functional Imaging project (RRID:SCR_021567) Copy   

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https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/project/touchscreen-cognition-mousebytes/

Project related to cognitive testing method for rodents.Provides touchscreen operant platform for testing learning and memory in rats and mice.Includes device chambers that can be used to measure rodent behavior.Not open source device.

Proper citation: Touchscreen Cognition (RRID:SCR_021550) Copy   

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https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/project/acrobat/

Project related to studying motor behavior. University of Washington in Seattle scientists have developed and published their device for training rats to perform modified center out task.

Proper citation: ACRoBaT (RRID:SCR_021546) Copy   

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https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/project/multichromvisstim/

Project related to visual neuroscience.Provides spatial visual stimulator with arbitrary spectrum of light for visual neuroscientists.Open source, low cost visual stimulator which can be customized with up to 6 chromatic channels. Spectrum of light can be arbitrary and customizable to be adapted to different animal models based on their visual spectrum. Device details, including parts list and information for custom python library for generating visual stimuli (QDSpy), can be found in eLife publication.

Proper citation: Visual stimulator with customizable light spectra (RRID:SCR_021545) Copy   

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https://wavesurfer.janelia.org/

Open source software application for neurophysiology data acquisition and analysis. Program is based in MatLab, and evolved from earlier open source software package called Ephus.

Proper citation: Wave Surfer (RRID:SCR_021529) Copy   

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/wx7aicjh4is81om/HomeCageForelimbTask.py?dl=0

Software Python tool running on Raspberry Pi computer. Used for trial timing and data logging. Part of Autonomous Training of Forelimb Motor Task system.

Proper citation: Autonomous Training of a Forelimb Motor Task (RRID:SCR_021603) Copy   

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https://github.com/mauriciowr/OBAT

Software tool as part of Operant Box for Auditory Tasks system.

Proper citation: Operant Box for Auditory Tasks (RRID:SCR_021604) Copy   

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https://github.com/PTMonteiro/GoFish_Ajuwon_etal_2022

Bonsai code for running GOFish platform for behavioural experiments in fish.

Proper citation: GoFish Ajuwon etal 2022 (RRID:SCR_022511) Copy   

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https://github.com/Imbrosci/synaptic-vesicles-detection

Software tool as Python based synaptic vesicle classifier algorithm to identify neurotransmitter vesicles in electron microscopy images using Pytorch.

Proper citation: Synaptic Vesicles Detection (RRID:SCR_024910) Copy   

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https://github.com/munoztd0/Mouthpiecegusto

3D printed pacifier shaped mouthpiece for fMRI compatible gustometers to deliver up to eight liquids during fMRI task. Can be utilized to study flavor, taste reactivity, reward or punishment with food, conditioning, and neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimers and Parkinsons, since taste and smell senses diminish early into disease acquisition.

Proper citation: 3DP Gustometer (RRID:SCR_025010) Copy   

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https://github.com/mmgxw3/pipetteFindingCNN

Software application for convolutional neural network that assesses pipette positioning before patch clamp is begun to minimize patch clamping errors in electrophysiology experiments. Used for detecting pipette positioning and making patch clamping procedures.

Proper citation: Pipette Finding CNN (RRID:SCR_024992) Copy   

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https://github.com/gchelini87/SEB3R

Software tool to automate and standardize ethologically driven observation of freely moving mice. Identifies different postures of mice and associates them with emotions, offering detailed analysis of their movements frame by frame. Used for tracking mouse body language and studying emotional behaviors.

Proper citation: SEB3R (RRID:SCR_025161) Copy   

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https://github.com/ZuAh/Custom-fitting-of-implants

Tutorial to custom-design and -fit implants to continuous and discontinuous skull surfaces. Universal Guide for Skull Extraction and Custom-Fitting of Implants to Continuous and Discontinuous Skulls.

Proper citation: Custom-fitting-of-implants (RRID:SCR_025270) Copy   

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https://github.com/mcmelo22/Licktech/tree/main

Lickometer system based on open-source hardware platform with user-friendly interface software, capable of simultaneously receiving data from eight automated cages with two drinking bottles each. Device to acquire high-quality and detailed data. Adaptable to new types of sensors or other neuroscience tools capable of measuring brain activity simultaneously to the behavior.

Proper citation: Lickometer Box (RRID:SCR_025248) Copy   

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https://github.com/jfrie/FARESHARE

Open source device for fluid tracking in socially housed rats. Device uses RFID and custom hardware to individually measure and record each rat's fluid consumption and licking microstructure.

Proper citation: FARESHARE (RRID:SCR_025330) Copy   

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https://github.com/LurLab-UCI/HERBs

Open source hardware and software solution for flexible implementation of complex behaviors in head-fixed mice. Low cost and requires little to no programming experience. Allows neural activity to be seen during testing, which will show relations between neuronal activity and behavior during tasks such as alternative forced choice, GoNoGo, and sensory stimulus presentation.

Proper citation: HERBs (RRID:SCR_025381) Copy   

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https://github.com/Aharoni-Lab/Ephys-Miniscope

Miniaturized calcium imaging microscope with integrated dense electrode technology for synchronous acquisition of neural activity across distant regions of the brain. Device based off open-sourced UCLA Miniscope to synchronously measure single cell activity at or near spike-time resolution across distant brain regions in freely behaving mice. Used to perform calcium imaging, with dense electrode electrophysiological recording, allowing simultaneous recordings from two remote brain regions in freely behaving mouse.

Proper citation: E-Scope (RRID:SCR_025396) Copy   

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https://github.com/MaSoMoTr/MaSoMoTr

Markerless video-based tool to simultaneously track two interacting mice of the same appearance in controlled settings for quantifying behaviors such as different types of sniffing, touching, and locomotion to improve tracking accuracy under these settings without increased human effort. It incorporates conventional handcrafted tracking and deep-learning-based techniques. The tool is trained on small number of manually annotated images from basic experimental setup and outputs body masks and coordinates of the snout and tail-base for each mouse.

Proper citation: Markerless Mouse Tracking for Social Experiments (RRID:SCR_025368) Copy   

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https://github.com/BerezhnoyD/Reaching_Task_VAI/

Open source hardware-software platform for analyzing reaching movement kinematics in mice. Used for studying fine motor skills in mice performing reach-to-grasp task. Behavioral platform uses readily available and 3D-printed components and was designed to be affordable and universally reproducible. Provides schematics, 3D models, code, and assembly instructions.

Proper citation: ReachOut (RRID:SCR_025502) Copy   

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https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/project/ort/

Open-source apparatus to enable continuous individual monitoring, training, and testing of rats without removing them from their social environment. This system utilizes RFID technology to track individual animals, minimizing human intervention and providing precise behavioral data.

Proper citation: One-rat Turnstile (RRID:SCR_025570) Copy   

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