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This lesson gives an introduction to high-performance computing with the Compute Canada network, first providing an overview of use cases for HPC and then a hands-on tutorial. Though some examples might seem specific to the Calcul Québec, all computing clusters in the Compute Canada network share the same software modules and environments.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 02:49:34

This talk presents an overview of CBRAIN, a web-based platform that allows neuroscientists to perform computationally intensive data analyses by connecting them to high-performance computing facilities across Canada and around the world.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 56:07
Speaker: : Shawn Brown
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Neuronify is an educational tool meant to create intuition for how neurons and neural networks behave. You can use it to combine neurons with different connections, just like the ones we have in our brain, and explore how changes on single cells lead to behavioral changes in important networks. Neuronify is based on an integrate-and-fire model of neurons. This is one of the simplest models of neurons that exist. It focuses on the spike timing of a neuron and ignores the details of the action potential dynamics. These neurons are modeled as simple RC circuits. When the membrane potential is above a certain threshold, a spike is generated and the voltage is reset to its resting potential. This spike then signals other neurons through its synapses.

Neuronify aims to provide a low entry point to simulation-based neuroscience.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 01:25
Speaker: : Neuronify

This short video walks you through the steps of publishing a dataset on brainlife, an open-source, free and secure reproducible neuroscience analysis platform.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:18
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This video shows how to use the brainlife.io interface to edit the participants' info file. This file is the ParticipantInfo.json file of the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS).

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 0:34
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This video will document the process of running an app on brainlife, from data staging to archiving of the final data outputs.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 3:43
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This video will document the process of visualizing the provenance of each step performed to generate a data object on brainlife.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 0:21
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This video will document the process of downloading and running the "reproduce.sh" script, which will automatically run all of the steps to generate a data object locally on a user's machine.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 3:44
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This brief video walks you through the steps necessary when creating a project on brainlife.io. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:45
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This brief video rus through how to make an accout on brainlife.io.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 0:30
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This video will document how to run a correlation analysis between the gray matter volume of two different structures using the output from brainlife app-freesurfer-stats.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:33
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As a part of NeuroHackademy 2020, this lecture delves into cloud computing, focusing on Amazon Web Services. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 01:43:59

Overview of Day 2 of this course.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 00:03:28
Speaker: : Tristan Shuman

This talk compares various sensors and resolutions for in vivo neural recordings.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 00:24:03

This hands-on tutorial explains how to run your own Minion session in the MetaCell cloud using jupityr notebooks.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 01:28:03

In this hands-on analysis tutorial, users will mimic a kernel crash and learn the steps to restore inputs in such a case.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 00:20:34
Speaker: : Phil Dong

This lesson will go through how to extract cells from video that has been cleaned of background noise and motion.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 01:49:40
Speaker: : Phil Dong

This final hands-on analysis tutorial walks users through the last visualization steps in the cellular data.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 00:27:23
Speaker: : Phil Dong

This lecture covers infrared LED oblique illumination for studying neuronal circuits in in vitro block-preparations of the spinal cord and brain stem.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 25:16
Speaker: : Péter Szucs

This lecture covers the application of diffusion MRI for clinical and preclinical studies.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 33:10
Speaker: : Silvia de Santis