Messaging for Automated Analysis - Clampfit can receive a message from Clampex indicating
that a new data file has just been written. Clampfit can be configured for automated analysis
of files as they become available, such as the automatic generation of I-V plots.
Open multiple Analysis windows simultaneously
Hide/Unhide signals from display
User-configurable toolbars with pre-defined toolbuttons for all menu items
Session activities and analysis results can be automatically saved to a log file or printed
Extensive on-line help
Context-sensitive right-mouse-button menus
Fully configurable Analysis window parameters: fonts, colors, X and Y axis ticks, titles
Click-and-drag zoom in X and Y axes
Data exported as Axon binary or ASCII text files for use with other programs
Analysis Window
Process large data sets (2 gigasamples)
Decimate data files for export
Work on selected sweeps or whole data files
Next/Previous feature for rapid review of sequentially acquired data files
Nine cursors per Analysis window, with mouse control and keyboard shortcuts for moving cursors
Event Detection:
Template Event Detection:
A sliding template matches event shapes.
Template can scale in amplitude to match the event.
Threshold Event Detection:
Up to 9 categories, where amplitude levels serve as triggers.
Includes re-arm and rejection levels for each category.
Pretrigger and post-trigger length selection.
Calculate taus by fitting found events.
Single-Channel Event Detection.
Event Viewer window to display captured events.
Dynamic plotting from Results window
Event Analyses:
Burst Analysis expanded.
Latency Analysis.
Perievent Analysis for timing before and after tagged events.
P(open) on continuous and episodic files.
Watch histograms being built while events are being detected.
Linked data views between the Analysis, Results and Graph windows.
Full Cursor statistics for cursor pairs 1 & 2, and 3 & 4.
1 million row limit.
Layout Window
Paste data, results and plots
Grid array or free-form positioning
Annotations and objects: text, arrows, lines, rectangles, polygons, ellipses
Lab Book Window
Procedures are automatically logged
Comments can be added to the log. Full text editing and searches.
Graphics (such as screen shots) can be pasted into the log
Data File Index (DFI)
The DFI is a database for organizing data files and sorting them by categories:
File name, Acquisition mode, Date, Time of day, Sampling rates, Experiment Type, ID numbers,
use of Leak Subtraction, User list, Conditioning train, External tags, Statistical Analyses
or Math signal, Number of sweeps, Holding potentials, File Comments, Input and Output
signal names, and the path to the data file.
The DFI can be sorted on any category and files searched for with any text value in any category.
Files are added to the DFI by data file search criteria, including folder name, dates of
acquisition, acquisition modes, and data file comment.
Data Transfer
Data in all types of windows can be saved or exported in the Axon file formats ABF (2.0 and 1.8)
or ATF, and gap-free data can be exported from the Analysis Window in LDT format
(QuB).
Segments of data defined by cursors can be saved.
You can copy screen images to the Windows Clipboard either as bitmaps or in metafile
format. Vector-based, the metafile format is excellent for transferring screen images
to a word-processing or drawing program, allowing you to resize the image or edit data
objects in the image.
Display Options
View data as overlapped sweeps, concatenated sweeps, or continuous (elapsed time, including gaps where no data were recorded)
Invert axes
Customizable toolbars
Color and font control of data and window components
Blank data
Display scaling: full scale X, Y, or all axes, auto-scale Y or all Y axes, zoom into data or axes
