DrCell

About

DrCell is a MATLAB based tool to analyze electrophysiological data recorded with microelectrode array (MEA) chips.

Supported signals:

• Neural signals
• Cardiac signals

Supported data types:

• BioMEMS lab, 60 electrode MEAs and 6-well electrode MEAs (*.dat, *_RAW.mat, *_TS.mat)
• GSI, 60 electrode MEAs (*.rhd)
• Multi channel systems (MCS), 60 electrode MEAs (*.h5)
• 3brain, 4096 electrode MEAs (*.brw, *.bxr)
• Axion, 24 well-plate with 16 electrode MEAs per well (*.spk, *.csv)

Getting Started

1. Download:

   • Download the "DrCell" folder to your computer.

2. Execution:

   • Execute the main script by dragging and dropping "DrCell.m" into the MATLAB terminal.

3. Graphical User Interface (GUI):

   • The execution process automatically opens the Graphical User Interface (GUI) for DrCell.

4. Path Configuration:

   • The execution process automatically adds all DrCell subfolders to the MATLAB path environment.

Usage in Your Own Scripts

With MATLAB

See the example script DrCell/shared/Turorials/HowToUse_DrCell_Functions_with_MATLAB.m

With Python

See the example script DrCell/shared/Turorials/HowToUse_DrCell_Functions_with_Python.m

License

DrCell was originally published in 2013 and is continously updated and expanded: C. Nick, M. Goldhammer, R. Bestel, F. Steger, A.W. Daus and C. Thielemann: DrCell – A Software Tool for the Analysis of Cell Signals recorded with Extracellular Microelectrodes Signal Processing: An International Journal (SPIJ) 7(2), 96-109, 2013.

Copyright (C) 2009-2025 Christoph Nick, Michael Goldhammer, Robert Bestel, Frederik Steger, Manuel Ciba, Johannes Forster, Andreas W. Daus, Christiane Thielemann

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or %at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

The GNU General Public License can be found at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/