Developed by Lynn Hazan in
G. Buzsáki's lab (CMBN, Rutgers Newark, USA).
Distributed under the
General Public License (GPL).
If you use NDManager for your analyses, please be kind enough to cite the following article in your publications:
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L. Hazan, M. Zugaro, G. Buzsáki (2006). Klusters, NeuroScope, NDManager: a Free Software Suite
for Neurophysiological Data Processing and Visualization, J. Neurosci. Methods 155:207-216.
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What is NDManager?
NDManager (Neurophysiological Data Manager) is a simple graphical application designed to help neurophysiologists manage their experimental recording parameters (e.g., number of channels and sampling rate of the acquisition system) and process their data (data filtering, spike extraction, PCA, etc.) NDManager is part of a larger data analysis framework, including Klusters (a powerful and easy-to-use cluster cutting application), NeuroScope (an advanced viewer for electrophysiological and behavioral data), and FMAToolbox (a Matlab toolbox for data analyses). NDManager was developed by Lynn Hazan in G. Buzsáki's lab (CMBN, Rutgers Newark, USA).
How is NDManager distributed?
NDManager is a free software distributed under the General Public License (GPL).
Who uses NDManager?
NeuroScope is used to process neuronal recordings from the hippocampus and cortex by dozens of teams around the world, including those of G. Buzsáki (Univ. Rutgers, USA), M. Zugaro and S. Wiener (CNRS-Collège de France, France), A. Sirota (Univ. Tübingen, Germany), K. Benchenane (CNRS, France), K. Diba (Univ. Wisconsin, USA), D. Robbe (IDIBAPS, Spain), H. Hirase (RIKEN, Japan), D. Isbrandt (Univ. Hamburg, Germany), V. Crunelli (Univ. Cardiff, UK), G. Laurent (Caltech, USA), E. Kandel (Univ. Columbia, USA), J. Knierim (Univ. Johns Hopkins, USA) and many more...
Standard Plugins
NDManager Plugins include a number of scripts and programs to automatically pre-process files recorded with data acquisition systems: file conversion (from vendor-specific, proprietary formats to open formats used by e.g. Klusters and NeuroScope), channel resampling and reordering, high-pass filtering and spike detection, waveform feature extraction (PCA) for subsequent spike sorting, video transcoding and LED tracking, etc.
Make sure you download, build and install both NDManager and the Plugins.
Custom Plugins
You can easily integrate your own processing tools within our framework without code modification. Only a simple 'front-end' shell script is required to read and check the parameters from the XML parameter file (rather than from the command-line or legacy configuration files), and pass them along to the processing tools. This intermediate shell script is usually very simple because we also provide a program (xpathReader) and convenience functions (ndm_functions) to easily parse the XML file. Reading our code should help you get started: look at ndm_start, and e.g. ndm_extractchannels.
NDManager was developed for GNU/Linux, but can also run on MacOS (and even in Windows, using a virtual machine such as VirtualBox). Readily-installable packages are provided for (K)Ubuntu. For other platforms, you will need to compile the sources:
# tar xvzf ndmanager-1.2.2.tar.gz
# cd ndmanager
# ./configure --prefix=$(kde-config --prefix) --without-arts
# make
# su
(type root password)
# make install
Compiling NDManager requires KDE3 and libxml2 development libraries.
For NDManager Plugins:
# tar xvzf ndmanager-plugins_1.4.tar.gz
# cd ndmanager-plugins
# make
# su
(type root password)
# make install
Compiling NDManager Plugins requires libsamplerate and libgsl development libraries. Some plugins also require mplayer (mencoder) and python-qt4 to run.
If you need help, contact Michaël Zugaro at michael.zugaro at college-de-france.fr
The user manual can be acessed in NDManager from the Help menu. It is also available online. Make sure you read it, it contains quite a lot of detailed information to get you started.
Developer documentation (API) can be found in the source archive in the directory ndmanager-api/html. It is also available online.
August 5 2011 - NDManager Plugins 1.4
- Major overhaul, with numerous new features and bug fixes.
- Single-pass batch processing.
- Revamped Neuralynx conversion code to fix synchronization issues.
- Support for file format version 9, allowing for longer recordings.
- Included spots2pos tracking program (Matlab function, previously part of FMAToolbox).
- New graphical applications (python) to prepare and check files for NDManager.
- New code for PCA.
- Numerous bug fixes.
August 5 2011 - NDManager 1.2.3
- Updated manual to document how to get started with NDManager Plugins. Included template parameter files.
July 5 2011 - NDManager 1.2.2
- Minor fixes (removed obsolete default parameters, corrected description file default name, fixed save bug and restored widow size).
September 17 2007 - NDManager 1.2.1
- Addition of the Data processing action: a terminal screen where processing commands can be entered and at the bottom of the screen, several buttons and popup menus which allow you to quickly open specific session files with the appropriate application.
- Addition of a Units page which lets you list all the units recorded during the session, and provide important information about them: structure, isolation distance, type, quality and notes (thanks to Michaël Zugaro who has done 95% of the work).
This information is diplayed and may be modified in Klusters.
- Addition of the Queries action. Queries are a means to look for specific information in several parameter files at once (this functionnality needs the xpathRead program which can be found on the download page).
A big thanks to Michaël Zugaro who has developped this functionnality.
- The currently opened file can be reloaded
- Bug fixes
- NDManager has been modified to be compatible with the new GCC 3.4 release series (G++ is now much closer to full conformance to the ISO/ANSI C++ standard).
February 7 2005 - NDManager 1.1.1
- This first release allows you to define and set the parameters of your own command-line tools; but does not yet contain the functionality to launch the tools.
