Stimfit manual

Author:Christoph Schmidt-Hieber (christsc at gmx.de) Date:November 17, 2011

Contents:

• Preface
• Getting started
  • File opening
  • Trace scaling
  • Navigate within a file
  • Analysis of individual events
  • Analysis on selected traces
  • Average calculation
  • Fitting functions to data
• The Python shell
  • Why use Python?
  • Before you start
  • The Python shell
  • Accessing data from the Python shell
  • Using NumPy with Stimfit
  • Control Stimfit from the Python shell
  • Some recipes for commonly requested features
• Latency measurements
  • Measurement of synaptic delay
  • Trace alignment
  • Setting the latency cursors
• Event extraction by template matching
  • Introduction
  • A practical guide to event detection
• Bibliography