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Markerless Mouse Tracking for Social Experiments Resource Report Resource Website |
Markerless Mouse Tracking for Social Experiments (RRID:SCR_025368) | MaSoMoTr | source code, software resource | Markerless video-based tool to simultaneously track two interacting mice of the same appearance in controlled settings for quantifying behaviors such as different types of sniffing, touching, and locomotion to improve tracking accuracy under these settings without increased human effort. It incorporates conventional handcrafted tracking and deep-learning-based techniques. The tool is trained on small number of manually annotated images from basic experimental setup and outputs body masks and coordinates of the snout and tail-base for each mouse. | OpenBehavior, simultaneously track two interacting mice, controlled settings for quantifying behaviors, sniffing, touching, locomotion, | is listed by: OpenBehavior | DOI:10.1523/ENEURO.0154-22.2023 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/project/masomotr/ | SCR_025368 | 2026-02-15 09:23:50 | 0 | |||||||
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Camera Control Resource Report Resource Website |
Camera Control (RRID:SCR_021614) | software resource, software toolkit | Open source software package that allows video to be recorded in sync with behavior. Python GUI and scripts allows investigators to record from multiple imaging source camera feeds with associated timestamps for each frame. Python API to record video system timestamps from Imaging Source USB cameras. Package requires Windows 10, Anaconda, and Git, and is compatible with Imaging Source USB3 cameras. Part of Camera Control project. | Multiple imaging, source camera feeds, , record video system timestamps, Imaging Source USB cameras, OpenBehavior |
is listed by: OpenBehavior is related to: Camera Control project |
Free, Available for download, Freely Available | https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/project/camera-control/ | SCR_021614 | Camera_Control | 2026-02-16 09:50:07 | 0 | ||||||||
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AutomaticSleepScoringTool Resource Report Resource Website |
AutomaticSleepScoringTool (RRID:SCR_022300) | software resource, software toolkit | Software pipeline for sleep researchers to perform automatic sleep scoring for rodents. Artificial neural network for automated behavioral state classification in rats. | Artificial neural network, classifying behavioral states in rats, automatic sleep scoring, rat, electrophysiological readings, OpenBehavior | is listed by: OpenBehavior | DOI:10.7717/peerj.12127 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/project/automaticsleepscoringtool/ | SCR_022300 | 2026-02-16 09:50:13 | 0 | ||||||||
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Dual Port Lick Detector Resource Report Resource Website |
Dual Port Lick Detector (RRID:SCR_021521) | software resource, software toolkit | Distribution package for Dual Port Lick Detector.Package includes files relevant to building lick detector. | Building lick detector files, lick detector, OpenBehavior |
is listed by: OpenBehavior is related to: Dual port Lick Detector project |
DOI:10.1152/jn.00500.2018 | Free, Available for download, Freely Available | https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/project/dual-port-lick-detector/ | SCR_021521 | DP-Lick-Detector | 2026-02-16 09:50:03 | 0 | |||||||
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SHARCQ Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
SHARCQ (RRID:SCR_022498) | software resource, software toolkit | Software tools to register histological section images and cell count locations to mouse brain atlas. Semi automated workflow and GUI for automated brain slice histology alignment, registration, and cell quantification. Used to explore Allen Mouse Brain Atlas, register asymmetric slice images to atlas using manual input, and analyze region of interest data by registering locations of fluorescently labeled cells to standardized regions of Atlas. | OpenBehavior, atlas registration, brain mapping, cell-type, slicing, histology, cell quantification, automated, brain atlas, mice |
is listed by: OpenBehavior is related to: Allen Mouse Brain Reference Atlas is related to: Allen Institute for Brain Science has parent organization: University of Colorado Boulder; Colorado; USA |
PMID:35396257 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/project/sharcq/ | SCR_022498 | Slice Histology Alignment, and Cell Quantification, Registration | 2026-02-16 09:50:24 | 2 | |||||||
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ColonyTrack Resource Report Resource Website |
ColonyTrack (RRID:SCR_023026) | software resource, software toolkit | Software R package to process raw data from ColonyRack system. In addition to generating pre processed data and quality control information, range of high level metrics are calculated together with convenient tools for analysis. | OpenBehavior, discrete longitudinal tracking data, process raw data from ColonyRack system, generating pre processed data, quality control information | is listed by: OpenBehavior | Free, Available for download, Freely available | https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/project/rtrack-colonytrack/ | SCR_023026 | 2026-02-16 09:50:28 | 0 | |||||||||
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Open Face Homecage Running Wheel Resource Report Resource Website |
Open Face Homecage Running Wheel (RRID:SCR_023642) | software resource, instrument resource | Open source, printable, open faced running wheels for mice residing in home cage that is automated to collect locomotor information such as distance traveled, wheel direction, and velocity. Running wheel system available on GitHub contains code and information to create and run running wheels. System consists of 3D printed wheel, Raspberry Pi 0 W, and supporting components. | Running wheels for mice, OpenBehavior, instrument, running wheels, 3D printed wheel, | is listed by: OpenBehavior | PMID:36241420 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/project/running-wheel/ | SCR_023642 | 2026-02-16 09:50:32 | 0 | ||||||||
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B-CALM Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
B-CALM (RRID:SCR_023884) | software resource, instrument resource | Open source system for behavioral control based on Arduino Mega microcontroller and MATLAB based graphical interface and analysis code. Behavior controller optimized and customized for associative learning and memory tasks. Provided software should be able to control many different types of hardware for different task configurations. | OpenBehavior, instrument, behavioral controller, associative learning and memory, | is listed by: OpenBehavior | NIMH R00MH118422; NIMH R01MH129582; NIAAA R01AA029661; Scott Alan Myers Endowed Professorship |
PMID:37464151 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/project/b-calm/ | SCR_023884 | 2026-02-16 09:50:46 | 1 | |||||||
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Falcon Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
Falcon (RRID:SCR_023199) | software resource, software toolkit | Open source software tool for closed loop neuroscientific experiments capable of sub-millisecond response latency over high-rate streaming data acquired from high-count multi-electrode arrays. Used for processing and controlling closed-loop neuroscience data. | OpenBehavior, processing and controlling closed-loop data, implementing closed loop neuroscience experiments, high rate streaming data, high count multi electrode arrays, neuroscience data | is listed by: OpenBehavior | DOI:10.1088/1741-2552/aa7526 | Free, Freely available | https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/project/falcon/ | SCR_023199 | 2026-02-16 09:50:36 | 6 | ||||||||
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RatInABox Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
RatInABox (RRID:SCR_023682) | software resource, software toolkit | Software Python toolkit for modelling locomotion and neuronal activity in continuous environments. Used to model realistic rodent locomotion and generate synthetic electrophysiological data from spatially modulated cell types. | OpenBehavior, modelling locomotion and neuronal activity, continuous environments, model realistic rodent locomotion, generate synthetic electrophysiological data, spatially modulated cell types, | is listed by: OpenBehavior | DOI:10.1101/2022.08.10.503541 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/project/ratinabox/ | SCR_023682 | 2026-02-16 09:50:45 | 1 | ||||||||
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Raspberry Pi Grating Resource Report Resource Website |
Raspberry Pi Grating (RRID:SCR_023157) | RPG | software resource, software toolkit | Software Python package written for Raspberry Pi for displaying visual stimuli and to provide real time feedback on stimulus timing. High performance python library for displaying drifting gratings on Raspberry Pi 3. | OpenBehavior, Raspberry Pi 3, displaying drifting gratings on Raspberry Pi 3, displaying visual stimuli, stimulus timing feedback, video data storage, data rapid display | is listed by: OpenBehavior | PMID:34464650 | Free, Freely available, Available to download | https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/project/rpg/ | SCR_023157 | 2026-02-16 09:50:39 | 0 | |||||||
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OpBox Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
OpBox (RRID:SCR_023269) | software resource, software toolkit | Open source electrophysiology hardware and software package for simultaneous EEG and EMG acquisition from multiple subjects. | OpenBehavior, electrophysiology, simultaneous EEG and EMG acquisition, | is listed by: OpenBehavior | DOI:10.1523/ENEURO.0212-20.2020 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/?s=OpBoxPhys | SCR_023269 | 2026-02-16 09:50:27 | 1 | ||||||||
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3DP Gustometer Resource Report Resource Website |
3DP Gustometer (RRID:SCR_025010) | source code, instrument resource, software resource | 3D printed pacifier shaped mouthpiece for fMRI compatible gustometers to deliver up to eight liquids during fMRI task. Can be utilized to study flavor, taste reactivity, reward or punishment with food, conditioning, and neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimers and Parkinsons, since taste and smell senses diminish early into disease acquisition. | OpenBehavior, pacifier shaped mouthpiece, 3D printed mouthpiece, mouthpiece, 3D mouthpiece with fMRI-compatible gustometer, | is listed by: OpenBehavior | PMID:34551958 | Free, Available for download, Freely available, | https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/project/3dp-gustometer/ | SCR_025010 | 3D Printed Gustometer | 2026-02-16 09:50:57 | 0 | |||||||
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Synaptic Vesicles Detection Resource Report Resource Website 10+ mentions |
Synaptic Vesicles Detection (RRID:SCR_024910) | software application, data processing software, image analysis software, source code, software resource | Software tool as Python based synaptic vesicle classifier algorithm to identify neurotransmitter vesicles in electron microscopy images using Pytorch. | OpenBehavior, synaptic vesicle classifier algorithm, identify neurotransmitter vesicles, electron microscopy images |
uses: PyTorch is listed by: OpenBehavior |
PMID:34983830 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/project/synaptic-vesicles-detection-and-localization/ | SCR_024910 | 2026-02-16 09:50:56 | 12 | ||||||||
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SEB3R Resource Report Resource Website |
SEB3R (RRID:SCR_025161) | SEB3R | software application, software resource, source code | Software tool to automate and standardize ethologically driven observation of freely moving mice. Identifies different postures of mice and associates them with emotions, offering detailed analysis of their movements frame by frame. Used for tracking mouse body language and studying emotional behaviors. | OpenBehavior, rodents behavioral tracking in 3D, automate and standardize ethologically driven observation, freely moving mice, tracking mouse body language, emotional behavior, |
is listed by: OpenBehavior has parent organization: University of Trento; Trento; Italy |
PMID:37648448 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/project/seb3r/ | SCR_025161 | Stimulus Evoked Behavioral tracking in 3D for Rodents | 2026-02-16 09:50:58 | 0 | ||||||
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HERBs Resource Report Resource Website |
HERBs (RRID:SCR_025381) | HERBs | source code, instrument resource, software resource | Open source hardware and software solution for flexible implementation of complex behaviors in head-fixed mice. Low cost and requires little to no programming experience. Allows neural activity to be seen during testing, which will show relations between neuronal activity and behavior during tasks such as alternative forced choice, GoNoGo, and sensory stimulus presentation. | OpenBehavior, head-fixed mice, relations between neuronal activity and behavior, alternative forced choice, GoNoGo, sensory stimulus presentation. | is listed by: OpenBehavior | PMID:37286343 | https://github.com/LurLab-UCI/HERBs/wiki https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/project/herbs-2/ |
SCR_025381 | Head-fixed Environment for Rodent BehaviorS | 2026-02-16 09:51:04 | 0 | |||||||
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E-Scope Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
E-Scope (RRID:SCR_025396) | source code, instrument resource, software resource | Miniaturized calcium imaging microscope with integrated dense electrode technology for synchronous acquisition of neural activity across distant regions of the brain. Device based off open-sourced UCLA Miniscope to synchronously measure single cell activity at or near spike-time resolution across distant brain regions in freely behaving mice. Used to perform calcium imaging, with dense electrode electrophysiological recording, allowing simultaneous recordings from two remote brain regions in freely behaving mouse. | OpenBehavior, miniatured microscope, calcium imaging microscope, microscope, synchronous acquisition, freely behaving mice, neural activity, brain distant regions, synchronously measure single cell activity, |
is listed by: OpenBehavior is related to: UCLA Miniscope project |
NICHD P50HD103577; NINDS U01NS122124; NINDS R01NS090930; NINDS 1R61NS119708; NSF NeuroNex Award |
PMID:37066345 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | http://miniscope.org/index.php/Main_Page https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/?s=E-Scope |
SCR_025396 | 2026-02-16 09:51:04 | 1 | |||||||
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Lickometer Box Resource Report Resource Website |
Lickometer Box (RRID:SCR_025248) | source code, instrument resource, software resource | Lickometer system based on open-source hardware platform with user-friendly interface software, capable of simultaneously receiving data from eight automated cages with two drinking bottles each. Device to acquire high-quality and detailed data. Adaptable to new types of sensors or other neuroscience tools capable of measuring brain activity simultaneously to the behavior. | OpenBehavior, lickometer, simultaneously receiving data, eight automated cages, two drinking bottles, liquid intake, animal behavior, device | is listed by: OpenBehavior | PMID:35851299 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/project/lickometer-box/ | SCR_025248 | Licktech | 2026-02-16 09:51:02 | 0 | |||||||
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FARESHARE Resource Report Resource Website |
FARESHARE (RRID:SCR_025330) | source code, instrument resource, software resource | Open source device for fluid tracking in socially housed rats. Device uses RFID and custom hardware to individually measure and record each rat's fluid consumption and licking microstructure. | OpenBehavior, device, fluid tracking, socially housed rats, | is listed by: OpenBehavior | DOI:10.1101/2023.10.06.561248 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/project/fareshare/ | SCR_025330 | Fluid Acquisition Recording in Socially Housed Animal Research | 2026-02-16 09:50:55 | 0 | |||||||
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ReachOut Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
ReachOut (RRID:SCR_025502) | source code, instrument resource, software resource | Open source hardware-software platform for analyzing reaching movement kinematics in mice. Used for studying fine motor skills in mice performing reach-to-grasp task. Behavioral platform uses readily available and 3D-printed components and was designed to be affordable and universally reproducible. Provides schematics, 3D models, code, and assembly instructions. | OpenBehavior, behavioral platform, motor skills in mice, analyze forepaw kinematics, schematics, 3D models, assembly instructions, | is listed by: OpenBehavior | DOI:10.1016/j.xpro.2024.103140 | Free, Freely available | https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/project/reachout/ | SCR_025502 | 2026-02-16 09:51:06 | 1 |
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