next»

next article
interstellar review: was this the final cut?
in movies on 17 December 2014

«previous

previous article
book review: the path to power
in books on 29 August 2014

random!

random article
Book Review: Who We Are and How We Got Here
in books on 31 March 2018

 

neuroscience and biology technologies

in neuroscience on 30 November 2014

Summary

Earlier this year I created a webpage to list various labs, websites, and other resources related to neuroscience and biotechnology. Decided to expand on this and create a living document of various technologies currently used in neuroscience.

article image

There has been, and continues to be, an explosion in technologies with neuroscience applications. Keeping track of them all can be daunting at times, especially for someone entering the field. I've decided to begin assembling a list of neurotechnologies into a living document. Very early draft form is below on Google Doc, still deciding on the best way format and share such a resource.

Neuroscience Technologies

-biafra
bahanonu [at] alum.mit.edu

more articles to enjoy:

neuroscience imaging analysis tools
08 november 2021 | neuroscience
Provide new and existing researchers a central location for methods and URLs for calcium imaging data processing and analysis tools. [...]>This table also includes imaging data handling and analysis tools beyond calcium imaging and will be updated going forward.

The table can be sorted by column by clicking each header.

Also found as part of the Brain Initiative Notes post imaging analysis tools or https://github.com/bahanonu/imaging_tools.

sochi olympic stats: medal count
19 february 2014 | america
There have been several articles that re-order the medal count ranking by comparing medals to population or GDP, which then show small coun[...]tries topping the charts. This analysis ignores some obvious facts: small countries are over-represented in the number of athletes they send and the relationship between athletes sent and medals is linear. I present a brief analysis to support and expand on these claims.

bioc218: predicting co-translational pausing with neural networks
14 may 2013 | science
Wanted to share my final paper for bioc218, a computational biology class i t[...]ook this winter 2013. We were tasked with choosing a particular technique, algorithm, or any material discussed in the class and exploring it in more detail. Neural networks seemed particularly interesting—and not just because i'm a neuroscientist. I wanted to use machine learning algorithms to improve predictions for the project i am working on in Judith Frydman's lab.

satellite-based videos: eastern europe during the russia-ukraine conflict
30 november 2022 | satellite
To visualize the nighttime lights of Eastern Europe, with a focus on times before and after the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, I updated [...]my geoSatView R code originally built to view forest fires in the west coast of the United States to use satellite data from VNP46A1 and other datasets collected from the Suomi NPP VIIRS satellite.

I then created higher-quality movies in MATLAB by using the VNP46A2 Black Marble dataset collected by the same satellite, which has reduced cloud and other artifacts due to additional data processing. This allowed me to quantitate a permanent reduction in nighttime lights within Ukraine (in line with my initial hypothesis) and identify a multi-stage reduction of nighttime lights in Kiev's outer neighborhoods/metropolitan area that was greater than that seen in the city core/center. This highlights the utility of public satellite data to quickly test hypotheses and visualize large-scale changes.

I will go over how the Black Marble dataset is collected and processed along with how I created the movies and the advantages/disadvantages of each data source.

Using this platform and codebase, in follow-up posts I will look at 2021 Texas power crisis during the winter storms, vegetation changes in deforested areas or after conservation efforts, and other events.

©2006-2024 | Site created & coded by Biafra Ahanonu | Updated 17 April 2024
biafra ahanonu