OptiMouse

Yorman Ben-Shaul, of the Department of Medical Neurobiology at The Hebrew University, has shared the following about OptiMouse in an article published through BMC Biology:

OptiMouse is an open-source software designed to semi-automatically analyze the positions of individual mice, specifically their nose positions, in a behavioral arena with the goal of minimizing error. This software was designed to provide highly accurate detection of positions and to make the entire analysis process accessible and free by providing its own graphical user interface, requiring no prior programming knowledge. OptiMouse is different from other position tracker software in that it applies multiple detection algorithms to a single session while allowing a seamless integration of custom functions, controllable through the GUI. This software also makes the identification of frames with incorrect position detection easy to find so the settings for those frames can be adjusted, producing higher quality data.

This research tool was created by your colleagues. Please acknowledge the Principal Investigator, cite the article in which the tool was described, and include an RRID in the Materials and Methods of your future publications.  Project portal RRID:SCR_021463; Software RRID:SCR_021527