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https://github.com/namboodirilab/B-CALM

Open source system for behavioral control based on Arduino Mega microcontroller and MATLAB based graphical interface and analysis code. Behavior controller optimized and customized for associative learning and memory tasks. Provided software should be able to control many different types of hardware for different task configurations.

Proper citation: B-CALM (RRID:SCR_023884) Copy   

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https://github.com/TomGeorge1234/RatInABox

Software Python toolkit for modelling locomotion and neuronal activity in continuous environments. Used to model realistic rodent locomotion and generate synthetic electrophysiological data from spatially modulated cell types.

Proper citation: RatInABox (RRID:SCR_023682) Copy   

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https://github.com/WinterLab-Berlin/LabNet

Open source software for parallel control over multiple behavioral systems.C++ optimized control layer software to give access to Raspberry Pi connected hardware. Suitable for time critical operations, and to be simple to expand. Used for general automation in experimental laboratories with its control PC located at some distance.

Proper citation: LabNet (RRID:SCR_023712) Copy   

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https://github.com/DepartmentofNeurophysiology/Matlab-Whisker-Tracker

Shared database of videos featuring juvenile and adult male rats and adult male mice exploring stationary objects.This dataset includes wide variety of experimental conditions including genetic, pharmacological, and sensory deprivation interventions to explore how active sensing behavior is modulated by different factors. Database of high speed videos of whisking behavior in freely moving rodents.Open source high speed infrared videography database to study principles of active sensing in freely navigating rodents.

Proper citation: Open Source Whisking Video Database (RRID:SCR_021407) 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://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/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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https://github.com/3Dneuro/TD_Drive

Parametric, open-source implant for multi-area electrophysiological recordings in behaving and sleeping rats. 3D-printable implant for rats, capable of symmetric, bilateral wire electrode recordings, currently in up to six distributed brain areas simultaneously.

Proper citation: TD_Drive (RRID:SCR_025672) Copy   

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