The landing page for the open-source UCLA Miniscope V4 project

The UCLA Miniscope Project develops open-source miniaturized fluorescence microscopes (Miniscopes) for in vivo neural recording in freely behaving animals. Each Miniscope pairs custom optics, electronics, and firmware with open hardware designs, data-acquisition software, and analysis pipelines. The platform spans the full stack of needs to go from surgery to publishable findings, with a global community of researchers using and contributing hardware, software, and methods. This wiki is the project's primary dissemination hub. Documentation, guides, and workshop materials live here so new and experienced users can build, run, and extend the platform without reverse-engineering prior labs' workflows.

Extra Large FOV Miniscope (MiniXL). A 3.5-gram miniaturized fluorescence microscope with a 3.5 mm field of view for imaging neuronal activity in freely behaving mice and larger animals. Second generation of the MiniLFOV specifically focused on supporting large FOVs in mice.

Large field-of-view miniature microscope for rats and larger animals.

UCLA miniature multiphoton microscope resources and design files.

Neural and behavior control and recording software for the UCLA Miniscope Project. This project, while still functional and used in many UCLA Miniscope Project experiments, is no longer maintained. It will be replaced with Miniscope-IO.

The original open-source UCLA Miniscope, one generation prior to the Miniscope V4.

Generic i/o interfaces for Miniscopes.

MiniAn is an analysis pipeline and visualization tool inspired by both CaImAn and MIN1PIPE package specifically for Miniscope data.