Aug 18, 2022 | Adafruit, Arduino, In the Community, Open Source Resource, OpenBehavior Team Update, Teaching
Many labs use 3D printers to create small parts, tools, and replacement items for existing lab gear. Most of these items are never used outside of the lab where they were designed, and there are probably many parallel solutions to common lab problems available. For...
Aug 4, 2022 | Adafruit, Arduino, In the Community, Open Source Resource, OpenBehavior Team Update, Teaching
The goal of the OpenBehavior project is to make open source tools more accessible and easier to use for neuroscientists. With support from NSF’s Division of Biological Infrastructure, Lex Kravitz and Cammi Rood and Kevin Chávez López from the Laubach Lab, spent the...
Jul 7, 2022 | In the Community, Open Source Resource, OpenBehavior Team Update, Teaching, Video Analysis
Last year, OpenBehavior created a video repository with the intention of gathering raw behavioral neuroscience videos in one location to train students to use video analysis software. Recently, we have updated our repository and added three videos depicting commonly...
Apr 7, 2022 | Community Call to Action, Open Source Resource, OpenBehavior Team Update, Video Analysis
In the summer of 2021, OpenBehavior organized a working group on methods for video analysis. A Slack channel was started to discuss the methods and a series of virtual meetings were held that involved conversations among users and developers. Some in the group decided...
Sep 2, 2021 | In the Community, Open Source Resource, OpenBehavior Team Update, Teaching, Video Analysis
Earlier this year, the OpenBehavior project initiated a repository of raw videos from typical behavioral neuroscience experiments. A total of 14 video collections were contributed to the repository, and several more will be added this fall. The videos will be useful...
Aug 5, 2021 | In the Community, Open Source Resource, OpenBehavior Team Update, Uncategorized
The RRID Initiative by OpenBehavior and SciCrunch The OpenBehavior project received support from the National Science Foundation in January 2021. There are three main goals for the initial funding period: (1) create a database of open-source tools used in behavioral...
Jul 14, 2021 | Open Source Resource, Uncategorized
Computer vision and deep-learning approaches have provided quantitative measurements of animal pose estimation and behavior tracking. Specifically, DeepLabCut and other deep-neural networks have introduced marker-less approaches for offline pose estimation and...
Jun 17, 2021 | Community Call to Action, In the Community, OpenBehavior Team Update
Following several conversations on Twitter about methods for video analysis, in May 2021 the OpenBehavior team reached out to prominent research groups working on methods for video analysis and groups who contributed videos to our behavioral neuroscience video...
Dec 10, 2020 | In the Community, OpenBehavior Team Update
Students in the Computational Methods course in the Neuroscience major at American University learn about core methods for open source science each fall. In past years, we have focused on learning Python for data analysis, methods for 3D printing, and using Arduino to...
Oct 1, 2020 | Open Source Resource
We have covered developments with the OpenMV project before on OpenBehavior, and they’ve just added a new feature that will be of interest to many behavioral neuroscientists. The OpenMV camera is a machine-vision camera that is programmed in Python. The developers...
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