geKo (geKo electrophysiology Kommander)

geKo is a minimalistic software suite, based on a command-line interface (CLI), for standard cellular electrophysiological experiments.

It leverages over previous work from our lab, defining stimulation protocols for conventional voltage- and current-clamp experiments in terms of a concise and flexible meta description. This allows representing complex waveforms as a piece-wise parametric decomposition of elementary sub-waveforms, abstracting the stimulation hardware.

Motivations

We are after standardization and reproducibility in simple cellular electrophysiological experiments, but unhappy with the majority of software available, bloated, inefficient, and slow to use in the context of industrialised neuroscience.

Authors

• @mgiugliano
• @adam-says
• @jgiorg

Appendix

Installing niDaqmx on Linux

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Installing and compiling geKo

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Funding