Crabsort Tutorial Info & Video

Crabsort Tutorial Information & Video

Steps to do before watching/doing the workshop:

1. Download MATLAB and make sure it's running on your laptop/ work computer.
2. If you are not familiar with MATLAB, or you need a refresher, go through the MATLAB onramp to familiarize yourself with commands, coding, and basic MATLAB grammar.
3. Download Crabsort (and other necessary packages from Srinivas' GitHub) and get it working on your laptop or work desktop computer. This step will likely take longer to ensure it's working.

   Note: Check before you download everything, especially if your computer is older than ~4 years.

General Overview

Part 2: Crabsort Tutorial (this was a part of a larger Data Analysis Workshop run in the Marder Lab)

1. How to use Crabsort to get spike times from extracellular experiments.
2. How to locate spike times to manipulate them in MATLAB

Video Breakdown

Crabsort Tutorial Video

Note: Times are all in the format hh:mm:ss

Part 2: Crabsort Tutorial

• 00:06:00–Before Crabsort Existed
• 00:01:19–Navigating the Preference File & Opening Crabsort
• 00:03:33–Loading files into Crabsort & Labeling the Channels
• 00:09:02–Simple Spike Detection in Crabsort
• 00:20:22–Complex Spike Detection in Crabsort
• 00:28:52–Training the Neural Network Across the Experiment
• 00:35:27–Automating Spike Detection, Part 1: All Channels in a Single File
• 00:37:00–Resetting the Neural Network for a Channel
• 00:39:32–Automating Spike Detection, Part 2: All Channels for an Entire Experiment
• 00:42:12–Closing Crabsort
• 00:42:43–Locating the Crabsort Outputs
• 00:43:26–Credits