Chapter 3

Online material for chapter 3

(The programs and materials for Chapter 3 have been compiled and run on a PC workstation: Pentium III 300 MHz processor, 256 MB RAM, Windows 98. However a version of the executable files LMeasure and LNeuron for Linux platform is available on the web via links under those respective headings. The SWC and PRM files are plain ASCII text that can be read on any platform.)

LNeuron A program which uses statistical distributions of measured parameters to create virtual neurons.
LMeasure A program to extract many shape parameters from SWC files of traced and generated neurons.
Duke-Southampton Links to their SWC file archive and Cvapp, a program to visualize SWC files.
Dendro1 A program to create dendrograms from SWC files.
Edited Swc Files Link to SWC files from Duke-Southampton archive that have had small errors corrected.
Glossary Definitions of terms, LNeuron parameters, and LMeasure functions discussed in the chapter.

The Computational Neuroanatomy Group at the Krasnow institute: http://www.krasnow.gmu.edu/ascoli/CNG/index.htm