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DIY Rodent Running Disk Resource Report Resource Website |
DIY Rodent Running Disk (RRID:SCR_021558) | data or information resource, instrument resource, portal, project portal | Portal related to Rodent Running Disk. Provided Rodent Running Disk was developed by University of California, Berkeley scientist. Acrylic disk mounted to optical encoder to achieve fast locomotion decoding. | Instrument, rodent running disk, acrylic disk, OpenBehavior |
is listed by: OpenBehavior has parent organization: University of California at Berkeley; Berkeley; USA |
DOI:10.1016/j.neuron.2017.12.021 | Free, Freely available | SCR_021558 | 2026-02-13 10:58:32 | 0 | |||||||||
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SignalBuddy Resource Report Resource Website |
SignalBuddy (RRID:SCR_021553) | data or information resource, instrument resource, portal, project portal | Portal related to signal generation. Provided system was developed by Columbia University scientists. System includes signal generator for scientific applications which generates digital or true analog signals (sine waves, step functions, and pulse trains) and can be controlled with intuitive serial monitor interface. | Instrument, signal generator, sine waves, step functions, pulse trains, OpenBehavior |
is listed by: OpenBehavior has parent organization: Columbia University; New York; USA |
Free, Freely available | SCR_021553 | 2026-02-13 10:58:32 | 0 | ||||||||||
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Actifield project Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
Actifield project (RRID:SCR_021452) | data or information resource, instrument resource, portal, project portal | Project related to measuring locomotor activity.System includes infrared motion detection and arduino to record activity in variety of chamber set ups. Provides actimeter and software tool to measure and record locomotor activity. | Measure locomotor activity, record locomotor activity, rodent locomotor activity, OpenBehavior, Instrument | is listed by: OpenBehavior | DOI:10.1016/j.ohx.2018.e00047 | Free, Freely available | SCR_021452 | Actifield | 2026-02-13 10:58:32 | 1 | ||||||||
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PhotometryBox Resource Report Resource Website |
PhotometryBox (RRID:SCR_021571) | data or information resource, instrument resource, portal, project portal | Portal provides open source control system for in vivo fluorescence measurements from deep brain structures developed by University of California, San Francisco scientists. Microcontroller based solution for controlling optical components in intracranial photometry system and processing resulting signal. | Instrument, fluorescence measurements, deep brain structures, optical fibers, intracranial photometry system, OpenBehavior |
is listed by: OpenBehavior has parent organization: University of California at San Francisco; California; USA |
DOI:10.1016/j.jneumeth.2018.10.022 | Free, Freely available | SCR_021571 | 2026-02-13 10:58:35 | 0 | |||||||||
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Rodent Activity Detector project Resource Report Resource Website |
Rodent Activity Detector project (RRID:SCR_021451) | RAD | data or information resource, instrument resource, portal, project portal | Project related to tracking and recording activity in rodent home cages.Provides device that utilizes passive infrared (PIR) sensor to detect movement in cages and logs data to microSD card. Device is wireless and battery powered, and can record data for about 3 weeks on charge. | Passive infrared sensor, detect movement in cages, logs data to microSD card, wireless device, battery powered device, record data, instrument, equipment, USEDit, OpenBehavior, Instrument | is listed by: OpenBehavior | DOI:10.1523/eneuro.0160-19.2019 | Free, Freely available | SCR_021451 | Rodent Activity Detector | 2026-02-13 10:58:31 | 0 | |||||||
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CerebraLux Resource Report Resource Website |
CerebraLux (RRID:SCR_021570) | data or information resource, instrument resource, portal, project portal | Portal provides low cost, open source, wireless probe for optogenetic stimulation. This wireless system for optogenetic stimulation was developed by UCLA scientists. Device consists of two parts. Optical component is mounted on head permanently, whereas electronic component is removable and is applied for each experiment. Device is controlled via custom GUI (built with the TkInter Python 2.7 library) which sends pulses to device via Arduino Uno. | Instrument, optogenetic stimulation, wireless system, OpenBehavior |
is listed by: OpenBehavior has parent organization: University of California at Los Angeles; California; USA |
DOI:10.1117/1.nph.4.4.045001 | Free, Freely available | SCR_021570 | 2026-02-13 10:58:33 | 0 | |||||||||
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Nose Poke Device Resource Report Resource Website |
Nose Poke Device (RRID:SCR_021568) | data or information resource, instrument resource, portal, project portal | Portal provides arduino based, 3D-printed nose poke device for rats. Includes set of instructions on how to build this device using arduino, some 3D printed parts and some off-the-shelf electronic components. | Instrument, nose poke device, device for rats, arduino, 3D printed parts, electronic components, OpenBehavior |
is listed by: OpenBehavior is related to: poke device arduino |
Free, Freely available | SCR_021568 | 2026-02-13 10:58:33 | 0 | ||||||||||
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Automated Home Cage Rodent Two bottle Choice Test project Resource Report Resource Website |
Automated Home Cage Rodent Two bottle Choice Test project (RRID:SCR_021445) | data or information resource, instrument resource, portal, project portal | Project related to studies of liquid ingestive behaviors used in neuroscience to investigate reward related behavior, metabolism, and circadian biology. Provides automated home cage sipper device for monitoring liquid ingestive behavior in rodents developed by Washington University, St. Louis scientists. Homecage fitted apparatus for automated, photobeam based detection of licks in two bottle choice task. | Automated home cage sipper device, Sipper, monitoring liquid, ingestive behavior, rodents, instrument, equipment, USEDit, OpenBehavior, Instrument |
is listed by: OpenBehavior is related to: SipperViz |
DOI:10.1523/eneuro.0292-19.2019 | Free, Freely available | SCR_021445 | Automated Home Cage Rodent Two bottle Choice Test | 2026-02-13 10:58:32 | 0 | ||||||||
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Pearce Lab Syringe Pump project Resource Report Resource Website |
Pearce Lab Syringe Pump project (RRID:SCR_021566) | data or information resource, instrument resource, portal, project portal | Open source syringe pump apparatus developed by scientists from Michigan Technological University. Syringe pump is designed using freely available open source computer aided design (CAD) software and manufactured using open source RepRap 3-D printer and readily available parts. | Instrument, syringe pump apparatus, OpenBehavior |
is listed by: OpenBehavior is related to: linear actuator has parent organization: Michigan Technological University; Houghton; USA |
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0107216 | Free, Freely available | SCR_021566 | Pearce Lab Syringe Pump | 2026-02-13 10:58:33 | 0 | ||||||||
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Platform for Acoustic STArtle project Resource Report Resource Website |
Platform for Acoustic STArtle project (RRID:SCR_021446) | PASTA, ratPASTA | data or information resource, instrument resource, portal, project portal | Project related to multifunctional neurobehavioral system developed by scientists at University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia.System includes hardware and software tools.Provides software package for processing and visualising data from startle experiments in rodents or experiments measuring grip strength in rodents. | Startle experiments, rodent, experiments measuring rodents grip strength, OpenBehavior, Instrument |
is listed by: OpenBehavior is related to: Platform for Acoustic STArtle |
DOI:10.1038/s41598-021-82710-6 | Free, Freely available | SCR_021446 | Platform for Acoustic STArtle | 2026-02-13 10:58:31 | 0 | |||||||
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Operant Box for Auditory Tasks project Resource Report Resource Website |
Operant Box for Auditory Tasks project (RRID:SCR_021564) | data or information resource, instrument resource, portal, project portal | Portal provides operant box designed to train small primates in auditory tasks.Device is based on computer and Arduino Mega 2560 board, named OBAT (Operant Box for Auditory Tasks), designed to present two different auditory stimuli to small primates.All schematics and software source code are available. | Instrument, operant box, train small primates, auditory tasks, OpenBehavior |
is listed by: OpenBehavior is related to: Operant Box for Auditory Tasks |
DOI:10.3758/s13428-017-0906-6 | Free, Freely available | SCR_021564 | Operant Box for Auditory Tasks | 2026-02-13 10:58:33 | 0 | ||||||||
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Rodent Operant Bucket project Resource Report Resource Website |
Rodent Operant Bucket project (RRID:SCR_021565) | data or information resource, instrument resource, portal, project portal | Portal for open source operant chamber, based on Arduino microcontroller platform, that can be used to train mice to respond for reward. Designed by NIDDK scientists.Apparatus contains two nose pokes, drinking well, and solenoid controlled sucrose delivery system. Chamber can run magazine training, fixed ratio and progressive ratio training schedules, and can be programmed to run more complicated behavioral paradigms. | Instrument, operant chamber, Arduino microcontroller platform, train mice, reward respond, OpenBehavior |
is listed by: OpenBehavior is related to: NIDDK- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Obesity Resources is related to: Rodent Operant Bucket |
DOI:10.3758/s13428-015-0603-2 | Free, Freely available | SCR_021565 | Rodent Operant Bucket, ROBucket | 2026-02-13 10:58:34 | 0 | ||||||||
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Stytra project Resource Report Resource Website |
Stytra project (RRID:SCR_021416) | data or information resource, instrument resource, portal, project portal | Project related to involvement in larval zebrafish behavioral experiments.Provides integrated system for stimulation, tracking and closed loop behavioral experiments. Provides timed stimulus presentation, interfacing with external devices and simultaneous real time tracking of behavioral parameters such as position, orientation, tail and eye motion in both freely swimming and head restrained preparations. | Control stimulation, track behaviour, closed loop behavioral experiments, larval zebrafish, behavioral parameters, position, orientation, tail, eye motion, freely swimming, head restrained, DeepLabCut, OpenBehavior, Instrument |
is listed by: OpenBehavior is related to: Stytra |
DOI:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006699 | Free, Freely available | SCR_021416 | Stytra | 2026-02-13 10:58:32 | 0 | ||||||||
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Online Animal Tracker Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
Online Animal Tracker (RRID:SCR_021412) | OAT | image processing software, software resource, data processing software, software application | Software tool as real time position tracker for behavioral research. Used for processing images, extracting object position information, and streaming data to disk and/or the network in real time. | Real time animal position tracking, experimental neuroscience, real time object tracking, processing images, extracting object position information, streaming data to disk, OpenBehavior |
is listed by: OpenBehavior is related to: Online Animal Tracker project |
Free, Available for download, Freely Available | https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/project/oat/ | SCR_021412 | 2026-02-13 10:58:32 | 2 | ||||||||
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Calcium Imaging data Analysis Resource Report Resource Website 10+ mentions |
Calcium Imaging data Analysis (RRID:SCR_021533) | CaImAn | data processing software, software library, software toolkit, software application, software resource, image analysis software | Open source software tool for scalable calcium imaging data analysis. Used for large scale calcium imaging analysis, including movie handling, motion correction, source extraction, spike deconvolution and result visualization. | calcium imaging analysis, movie handling, motion correction, source extraction, spike deconvolution, result visualization, OpenBehavior |
is listed by: OpenBehavior is related to: Calcium Imaging data Analysis project |
DOI:10.7554/elife.38173 | Free, Available for download, Freely Available | https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/project/caiman/ | SCR_021533 | 2026-02-13 10:58:34 | 37 | |||||||
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Spike Forest Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
Spike Forest (RRID:SCR_021532) | data analysis software, software resource, data processing software, software application | Open source and reproducible software suite that benchmarks performance of automated spike sorting algorithms across extensive, curated database of ground truth electrophysiological recordings, displaying results interactively on continuously updating website. | Validating automated neural spike sorters, electrophysiological recordings, spike sorting codes, spike sorting analysis, OpenBehavior |
is listed by: OpenBehavior is related to: Spike Forest project |
DOI:10.7554/elife.55167 | Free, Available for download, Freely Available | https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/project/spikeforest/ | SCR_021532 | SpikeForest, SpikeForest v2 | 2026-02-13 10:58:32 | 1 | |||||||
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LocoWhisk project Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
LocoWhisk project (RRID:SCR_021430) | data or information resource, instrument resource, portal, project portal | Portable behavioural set up that incorporates both gait analysis (using pedobarograph) and whisker movements (using high speed video camera and infrared light source).Automatically records both whisker and gait information and provides added statistical tools to analyse data. LocoWhisk system includes ARTv2 software for simultaneous measurement of locomotion behaviours and whisker movements. | Simultaneous measurement, locomotion behaviours, whisker movements, rodent behaviour, OpenBehavior, Instrument | is listed by: OpenBehavior | DOI:10.1016/j.jneumeth.2019.108440 | Free, Freely available | SCR_021430 | LocoWhisk | 2026-02-13 10:58:31 | 1 | ||||||||
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OpenFeeder Resource Report Resource Website |
OpenFeeder (RRID:SCR_021552) | data or information resource, instrument resource, portal, project portal | Project related to studying reward and feeding behavior. Provides open source automatic feeding system that can be customized for food types from seeds to pellets.System integrates plexiglass tubes, Arduino Uno, motor driver, and piezo sensor to reliably deliver accurate amounts of food, and can also be built using 3D printed parts. | Instrument, automatic feeding system, customized for food types, plexiglass tubes, Arduino Uno, motor driver, piezo sensor, deliver accurate amounts of food, 3D printed parts, OpenBehavior | is listed by: OpenBehavior | DOI:10.1016/j.ohx.2016.09.001 | Free, Freely available | SCR_021552 | 2026-02-13 10:58:34 | 0 | |||||||||
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Head-Fixed Setup for Combined Behavior, Electrophysiology, and Optogenetics project Resource Report Resource Website |
Head-Fixed Setup for Combined Behavior, Electrophysiology, and Optogenetics project (RRID:SCR_021427) | data or information resource, instrument resource, portal, project portal | Project related to temporally controlled rodent behavior. Provides system which utilizes optimal open source setup of hardware and software through behavioral setup for temporally controlled rodent behavior. Used for combined behavior, electrophysiology and optogenetics experiments. System allows for training of head fixed animals with calibrated sound stimuli, precisely timed fluid and air puff presentations as reinforcers.Combines microcontroller based behavior control with sound delivery system for acoustic stimuli, fast solenoid valves for reinforcement delivery and custom built sound attenuated chamber. | Head fixed animals training, calibrated sound stimuli, timed fluid reinforcer, air puff presentations reinforce, temporally controlled rodent behavior, Bonsai, Bpod, Open Ephys, OpenBehavior, Instrument | is listed by: OpenBehavior | DOI:10.3389/fnsys.2018.00018 | Free, Freely available | SCR_021427 | Electrophysiology, and Optogenetics, Head-Fixed Setup for Combined Behavior | 2026-02-13 10:58:32 | 0 | ||||||||
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ToneBox Resource Report Resource Website |
ToneBox (RRID:SCR_021548) | data or information resource, instrument resource, portal, project portal | Project related to auditory behavioral task data collection.Provided high throughput operant conditioning in mouse homecage system was developed by University of Maryland,College Park, scientists.Automated system for training up to hundreds of mice in auditory behavioral task features custom Matlab GUI running on desktop which connects to Raspberry Pi to administer auditory stimuli from USB soundcard and collects auditory data as well as licking data from water spout with commercially available capacitive sensors. Parts list and build instructions are readily available from paper and associated GitHub repository. | Instrument, auditory behavioral task, automated system, training mice, auditory behavioral task, OpenBehavior |
is listed by: OpenBehavior has parent organization: University of Maryland; Maryland; USA |
DOI:10.1523/eneuro.0121-19.2019 | Free, Freely available | SCR_021548 | 2026-02-13 10:58:34 | 0 |
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