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Custom Tools

Custom tools let you bring your own analysis workflows into IDEAS. While IDEAS provides a wide range of built-in tools for calcium imaging and behavior analysis, research often involves unique requirements—specific to your lab, experimental design, or data type. Custom tools bridge that gap by allowing you to package your own code as a custom tool, so it runs seamlessly within projects.

With custom tools, you can:

Tailor analysis to your exact scientific questions. Reuse and share workflows within your organization, ensuring consistency and efficiency across teams. Whether you need a specialized preprocessing step, a novel algorithm, or an integration with external libraries, custom tools give you the flexibility to make IDEAS work for your science.

Foundations

Learn about the features and capabilities of custom tools and containers in IDEAS:

  • Tools: Reference for the different features and capabilities of custom tools in IDEAS
  • Containers: Reference for the different features and capabilities of containers used in custom tools

Guides

Example demos illustrating the various features and capabilities of custom tools:

Support

Resources to help you troubleshoot and optimize your workflow: