About am-3

Summary.

This data set contains extracellular recordings of projection neurons in the premotor cortical area HVC of juvenile male zebra finches (Taeniopygia gutatta) during singing (n=32 birds, 44-112 days post hatch). The results are reported in:

Okubo TS, Mackevicius EL, Payne HL, Lynch GF, Fee MS. Growth and splitting of neural sequences in songbird vocal development. (Nature, 2015; 528(7582):352-7). DOI: 10.1038/nature15741

The methods that were used to collect this data are described in detail in the following protocol:

Okubo TS, Mackevicius EL, Fee MS. In vivo recording of single-unit activity during singing in zebra finches. (Cold Spring Harb Protoc, 2014 Oct 23; 2014(12):1273-83). DOI: 10.1101/pdb.prot084624.

Format of the data

Data is in Mablab format and is organized by animal and neuron. Details are given in the document linked to at the bottom of this page. Total size of the data is about 44 GB.

How to download the data

Data may be downloaded from:
https://portal.nersc.gov/project/crcns/download/am-3
A CRCNS.org account is required. See the download link for more instructions.

Conditions for using the data.

If you publish any work using the data, please cite the Nature (2015) paper above and also cite the data set using the following:

Okubo TS, Mackevicius EL, Payne HL, Lynch GF, Fee MS. (2016). Single-unit extracellular recordings of projection neurons in the premotor cortical area HVC of juvenile male zebra finches during singing. CRCNS.org.
http://dx.doi.org/10.6080/K01N7Z2Z

The above citation uses a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) which is assigned to the data set.  The DOI was created using DataCite (www.datacite.org) and the California Digital Library, "EZID" system (n2t.net/ezid/).

Getting help using the data.

Documentation file

crcns_am-3_data_description.pdf