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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2025

Calciumnetexplorer: an R package for network analysis of calcium imaging data.

Simone Lenci, Dirk Sieger

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 authors.

Simone LenciCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, 49 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, EH16 4SB, UK. s.lenci@ed.ac.uk.
Dirk SiegerCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, 49 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, EH16 4SB, UK. dirk.sieger@ed.ac.uk.

Funding

Cancer Research UK DRCPFA-May21\100011Medical Research Council MR/N013166/1, MR/W006804/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAnalyzing calcium imaging data to understand complex functional networks can be challenging, often requiring multiple tools, custom scripts, and some coding expertise. To address these challenges, we present CalciumNetExploreR (CNER), an R package designed to streamline and standardize the analysis of time-series data from neuronal populations.

resultsCNER integrates essential steps-normalization, binarization, population activity visualization, network construction, degree distribution analysis, principal component analysis, power spectral density evaluation, and event frequency calculations-into a single, cohesive pipeline. This comprehensive approach enables users to efficiently extract and compare network metrics, including clustering coefficients, global efficiency, community structures, and principal component variances. By offering a flexible and customizable framework, CNER simplifies the examination of functional connectivity and network topology, effectively providing the means to characterize a cellular functional network or analogous structures in other modalities.

conclusionDesigned as a user-friendly package, CNER allows both experimental and computational neuroscientists to incorporate robust statistical and graphical analyses into their workflows without extensive coding knowledge. By unifying key analytical components into one pipeline, CNER reduces barriers associated with large-scale data analyses, ultimately facilitating deeper insights into the functional organization and dynamic properties of neuronal networks across diverse recording techniques.

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CalciumComputational BiologyImage Processing, Computer-AssistedSoftwareAnimalsHumansNeuronsPrincipal Component AnalysisCalciumCalcium imagingComputational neuroscienceGraphNetworkR

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PMID40859128
PMCPMC12379452

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