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1. Introduction
The MouseRec software was written and compiled in LabVIEW (National Instruments, Austin,
TX) to monitor and record high-throughput behavior tracking experiments with mice. The
program saves motion data from multiple mouse cages with piezoelectric sensors at 128 samples
per second (*.bin files). It also computes signal features over short-time intervals related to
sleep-wake behavior and saves the feature vector values every 2 seconds (*.FeatVec files) as
well as sleep-wake decision statistics computed from a linear discriminate weight vector (*.Feat
files). The graphical user interface provides a variety of signal graphs, statistical summaries, and
current sleep-wake states to monitor the data collection and results during the experiment.
The MouseRec software supports the use of either PCI or USB NI data acquisition devices (NI-
DAQ) for simultaneous recording and monitoring of multiple channels. Examples of DAQ
devices are:
The NI-PCI6225 DAQ records 1 to 40 input channels
The NI-PCI6224 DAQ records 1 to 32 input channels
The NI-PCI6220 DAQ records 1 to 16 input channels
The NI-USB6009 DAQ records 1 to 8 input channels
The NI-USB6218 DAQ records 1 to 16 input channels
The NI-USB6229 DAQ records 1 to 32 input channels
The NI-USB6225 DAQ records 1 to 80 input channels
The software described in this document automatically detects the DAQ configured on your PC.
Software will run on a PC with Windows 7 or Windows XP operating systems (32 or 64 bit) and
an available PCI slot (for NI-PCI DAQs) or a USB port (for the NI-USB DAQs). The
installation of the MouseRec software automatically installs drivers for the NI DAQ, if they are
not already installed. Updated drivers and the runtime engine required to run MouseRec are
freely available from National Instruments at http://www.ni.com/drivers/
A. Installation
1. To install the real-time sleep-wake monitoring software and supporting National
Instruments software, download and unzip the installation package via instructions given
with your purchase.
2. Transfer the file to the hard drive of the computer where data will be collected and unzip
the file. Once unzipped, the directory MouseRec_101 should have been created. Inside
this directory is an application file named setup. Double click (execute) this file to start
the installation process. Follow the instructions in the prompts to complete the
installation.
3. Once the installation process is complete, two programs should be listed in the installed
programs list: MouseRec, which is the data acquisition program, and National
Instruments Software, which consists of several packages that manage the device drivers
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