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Describe a miniscope preparation so someone else could plan the same experiment. Six fields are required — a name, species, brain region, indicator, optical access, and a way to reach you. Everything else is optional; fill in what you know and leave the rest blank. Unpublished work is explicitly welcome.

What to call it

Entry name: required
A short descriptive label — region, cell population, and animal. Not the paper title.
One-line summary:
A sentence of context, e.g. "Chronic CA1 imaging across a two-week fear conditioning protocol."
Source publication:
Leave blank for unpublished work. If your paper is not listed, leave this empty and put the DOI in Notes.

Animal

Species: required
Background strain:
Transgenic line:
Cre driver, reporter, or disease model. Enter a cross as its component lines.
Sex:
Age at surgery:
Number of animals:
How many yielded usable imaging data. Note any attrition under "What was hard" below — that ratio is one of the most useful numbers here.

Target

Brain region: required
Start typing to match an existing region. If yours is missing, pick the closest parent structure and name the exact subregion in Notes — a curator will add the region page.
Coordinates:
Always include the reference point (bregma, lambda, dura, brain surface). Separate injection and implant coordinates with a semicolon and label them.
Hemisphere:
Cell type:
The population your indicator actually labelled, which is set by promoter and Cre line together.

Indicator

Indicator: required
Sensor name only. The packaged construct goes below.
Reports:
Delivery:
Viral construct:
Serotype, promoter, and payload as you ordered it. An Addgene number resolves more ambiguity than the name alone.
Titer:
Injection volume:
Expression time:
Injection to first imaging session. One of the most frequently asked numbers in miniscope work — please fill this in if you know it.

Optical access and surgery

Optical access: required
Lens specification:
Diameter and length are usually enough for someone to source an equivalent part.
Implant depth:
If you deliberately seated the lens above the injection site, say by how much.
Surgery staging:
Were virus injection and lens implant one procedure or two?
Injection to implant:
Leave blank if it was a single surgery.
Implant to baseplating:

Imaging

Scope:
Which miniscope — Miniscope V4, MiniLFOV, MiniXL, UCLA 2P Miniscope, and so on.
Recording condition:
Frame rate:
Session schedule:
Tells a reader whether the preparation held up for chronic tracking.
Behavioral paradigm:
Analysis pipeline:
Typical cell yield:
Please state the unit — per session, per animal, or total.

What was hard

What was hard about this preparation:
The most valuable field on this form. Attrition, clouding, bleaching, motion, cabling, expression that came up wrong — none of it survives peer review, and all of it saves someone else a failed cohort.

Who to ask

Experimenter: one contact required
Link a wiki profile so your contact details stay under your own control. No profile yet? See FAQ/Making a community profile, or use the free-text field below.
Experimenter (no wiki page):
Lab PI:
Institution:
Institution (free text):
Use this if your university has no wiki page yet.
Contact email:
Optional, and published publicly on this page where scrapers can read it. Linking a wiki profile above is the safer route. Only fill this in if you actively want cold email about this preparation.

Links

Protocol:
Code repository:
Dataset:
Other link:
Notes:
Anything the fields above did not capture — a DOI for a paper not yet in the wiki, an exact subregion, a caveat.

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