mmyros / dynclamp

Dynamic clamp toolbox

LCG

LCG is a suite of command-line programs to perform electrophysiological experiments.

Installation

Detailed instructions about the installation of LCG can be found here.

In a nutshell, if you have a system with at least Comedi, you can install LCG by typing the following commands:

autoreconf -i
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local
make
make install

We strongly recommend to install LCG in a local directory (for example in the user's home directory) instead of system-wide.

An additional option that you may want to pass to configure is --with-output-reset, which instructs the program to always reset the output of the DAQ card to zero whenever the program terminates.

Additional Python scripts can be installed by typing:

cd python
python setup.py build
python setyp.py install --prefix=$HOME/local

LCG also requires some environment variables, which can be set following the instructions this page.

Usage

LCG consists of a main executable, called lcg, which takes as arguments commands and related options.

A list of available commands can be obtained by typing

lcg help

To display information about each command, type:

lcg help command
lcg command -h

Documentation

The GitHub Pages website of LCG can be found here. It contains detailed installation instruction as well as a link to the LCG manual. The latest version of the manual can be obtained by checking out the manual branch and compiling the LaTeX source:

git checkout manual
pdflatex manual.tex
pdflatex manual.tex
bibtex manual
pdflatex manual.tex

Version

0.9

License

GPL

Authors

Daniele Linaro - [email protected]
Joao Couto - [email protected]