PANDORA is a Matlab Toolbox that:

• Makes database management accessible from your electrophysiology project;
• Works offline within Matlab;
• Requires no external software;
• Is flexible, can easily tie with existing Matlab scripts;
• Can query database as in SQL.

If you use PANDORA, please cite these from your software or publications:

• Günay C, Edgerton JR, Li S, Sangrey T, Prinz AA, Jaeger D (2009) Database analysis of simulated and recorded electrophysiological datasets with Pandora's toolbox. Neuroinformatics, 7(2):93-111. doi: 10.1007/s12021-009-9048-z. (PDF)
• RRID: SCR_001831
• Pandora page in SimToolDB

Use the 'Download ZIP' option to download the latest version from the Github page. Select 'Set Path' option or use the addpath Matlab command to add the classes/ and functions/ subdirectories to the Matlab search path. For example:

addpath <DOWNLOAD DIRECTORY>/classes
addpath <DOWNLOAD DIRECTORY>/functions

To test the installation try help tests_db and help collectspikes, which should give you their help text.

• Short introduction to PANDORA - 30 minutes
• Signal processing and tabular data analysis - 3 hours

• Loading intracellular data from recordings or simulations to create trace objects.
• Intracellular spike finding
• Extracting and analyzing firing properties (rate, spike amplitude, etc.)
• Tabular database analysis
• Creating a database from files

See the PDF manual under the doc/ directory. It may be somewhat outdated, but the online help using Matlab's help command will be always up-to-date.

• CNS*2021 Tutorial
• CNS*2020 Showcase
• Parallel parameter search scripts for neuron models intended for high-performance computing clusters
• CNS*2014 Neuronal Parameter Search Techniques tutorial files and information

• PyPet python parameter exploration toolkit for data storage and simulation management
• FIND Toolbox by Ralph Meier (meier AT biologie.uni-freiburg.de)
• SPIKY Toolbox by Thomas Kreuz (thomas.kreuz AT cnr.it)

Copyright (c) 2007-21 Cengiz Gunay and Emory University. This work is licensed under the Academic Free License ("AFL") v. 3.0. To view a copy of this license, please look at the COPYING file distributed with this software or visit http://opensource.org/licenses/afl-3.0.txt.

Open new issues on GitHub or contact me at this address! (cengique AT users.sf.net).

See the CREDITS.