A curated list of awesome Neuropixels resources, in no particular order. Create a pull request or raise a github issue to add any resources to this list.
- Community
- Neuropixels papers and manuals
- Courses, talks and videos
- Probe setup, care and sharpening
- Chronic implants
- Data acquisition
- Data preprocessing
- Spike-sorting
- Quality control
- Classifying cell types
- Tracking cells across days
- Loading and plotting data
- Trajectory planning and histology
- General frameworks
- Neuropixels 1.0, manual
- Neuropixels 2.0, manual
- Neuropixels ultra
- Neuropixels for NHP
- Neuropixels for humans
- 2023 October - UCL Neuropixels Course 2023, youtube videos
- 2022 October - UCL Neuropixels Course 2022, youtube videos
- 2021 October - UCL Neuropixels Course 2021 , youtube videos
- 2020 April - UCL Neuropixels Course 2020, youtube videos
- 2019 April - UCL Neuropixels Course 2019
- 2018 April - UCL Neuropixels Course 2018
- 2017 May - UCL Neuropixels Course 2017
Recoverable implants:
- Melin & Couto implant, Churchland lab (GitHub page)
- Aery Jones implant, Giocomo lab (protocol)
- Apollo (Bimbard & Coen) implant, Carandini/Harris lab (paper, GitHub page)
- Ghestem implant, Ferraris lab (paper, GitHub page)
- van Daal, Aydin & Michon implant, Haesler lab (paper, GitHub page)
- Aydin & van Daal, Neuropixels 2.0 implant, Haesler lab (paper, citation, GitHub page)
- Luo & Bondy implant, Brody lab (paper, GitHub page)
- Juavinett implant, Churchland lab (paper, GitHub page)
Non recoverable implants:
- SpikeGLX
- Open Ephys GUI
- Synchronizing data streams, optional Arduino code for applying external sync pulses here.
- Generating IMROs and channel maps - scripts
- Generating IMROs and channel maps - via SpikeGLX video 1, video 2
- Some tips to reduce noise
- Applying a phase shift to Neuropixels channels (to correct asynchronous sampling across ADCs):
- Common-average-referencing (gets rid of noise):
- Data compression/decompression:
- Manual curation GUI: Phy, docs
Bombcell: automated quality control, wiki
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IBL quality metrics
UnitMatch, paper here
Neuron_Tracking, paper here
For classical slice-by-slice histology (2D) AP histology
For 3D histology (cleared whole brains, brainsaw-ed brains) Brainglobe
HERBS