Resources

For Researchers:

Neurobehavior Testing Core:

Individual sleep chambers contained in light-tight, sound-attenuating environmental cabinets to acquire EEG signals 24/7 for two days or more. An example of the EEG and EMG traces used to identify and quantify sleep stages and wake. Running wheel cages are used to monitor activity through the circadian cycle, on standard and tailored light schedules. Click here view more!

Center for Human Phenomic Science (CHPS)

ITMAT Bioinformatics, RNA-seq, and ChIP seq analyses services

NIH T32-funded pre- and postdoctoral training programs in chronobiology, sleep, and sleep disorders.

Openings for these programs occur on a rolling basis and will be announced here and by email to CSI membership. The training grants are open to pre-doctoral, MD fellows, and PhD post-doctoral trainees. It provides up to 3 years of funding for trainees to complete coursework and mentored research in sleep and chronobiology.

Software Packages for Circadian/Sleep Analysis

Clocklab is a package for data collection and analysis of circadian behavior.

Drosophila Activity Monitoring System including infra-red monitors for raw data collection and filescan program for downstream data analysis.

JTK Cycle is a non-parametric algorithm for identification of cycling variables in large data sets.

MetaCycle Provides two functions-meta2d and meta3d for detecting rhythmic signals from time-series datasets.

Pysolo is a package for Drosophila sleep analysis.

Insomniac3 is a stand-alone PC program for Drosophila analysis of sleep and life span. Contact Julie Williams for information, a free copy and tutorial download. Email: jwillia3 at pennmedicine dot upenn dot edu

ActogramJ is an ImageJ Plug-in for circadian rhythm analysis.

Wavelet transform analysis