M Perry et al 2009 Bioinspir. Biomim. 4 044001 doi:10.1088/1748-3182/4/4/044001
M Perry1,5, T Vissing1,6, T P Boesen2, J S Hansen1,3, J Emnéus3 and C H Nielsen1,4,6
Show affiliationsRecent advances in biomimetic membrane systems have resulted in an increase in membrane lifetimes from hours to days and months. Long-lived membrane systems demand the development of both new automated monitoring equipment capable of measuring electrophysiological membrane characteristics and new data processing software to analyze and organize the large amounts of data generated. In this work, we developed an automated instrumental voltage clamp solution based on a custom-designed software controller application (the WaveManager), which enables automated on-line voltage clamp data acquisition applicable to long-time series experiments. We designed another software program for off-line data processing. The automation of the on-line voltage clamp data acquisition and off-line processing was furthermore integrated with a searchable database (DiscoverySheet™) for efficient data management. The combined solution provides a cost efficient and fast way to acquire, process and administrate large amounts of voltage clamp data that may be too laborious and time consuming to handle manually.
87.80.Jg Patch clamping and other physiological measurements
87.19.R- Mechanical and electrical properties of tissues and organs
07.05.Kf Data analysis: algorithms and implementation; data management
Issue 4 (December 2009)
Received 17 September 2009, accepted for publication 16 October 2009
Published 9 November 2009
M Perry et al 2009 Bioinspir. Biomim. 4 044001
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