SpikeHound

Scientific data acquisition for physiology and neuroscience

Spike Hound (formerly g-PRIME) is a data acquisition, Stimulus Generation, Instrument Control, and real time analysis package designed for use in physiology research and education where continuous multi-channel data is acquired and discrete events are analyzed. Through the Matlab data acquisition toolbox, the software allows for connection to a broad range of popular data acquisition hardware from high end, calibrated data acquisition boards to the sound card in your computer. Spike Hound allows for signal visualization, real-time filter applications, audio output to a monitor, and data logging with associated meta-data.
Spike Hound replaces and exceeds the functionality of several classical bench-top tools including the oscilloscope and arbitrary function generator. Spike Hound offers many powerful features for scientific visualization with a user friendly interface developed in a feedback process with neurophysiology researchers and students at the university level. Development has continued under researcher driven feedback at the HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus in cutting edge neuroscience applications.
This software is written in the Matlab scientific programming environment; as such, it supports all of the hardware supported by the Matlab Data Acquisition Toolbox. The source code (.m file) is available for download for users who desire to customize the tool to their application.