Introduction

Introduction

The CARMEN portal is a virtual research environment (VRE) to support e-Neuroscience.

It is designed to provide services for data and processing of that data in an easy to use environment within a web browser (Firefox 2 or later, Internet Explorer 7 or later or Safari recommended.)

What the Portal Provides

• User login and customization.
• Data upload/download.
• Data handling including custom permissions for public, shared or private data.
  
• The ability to invoke custom public, shared or private services that consume and produce data. For example, it would allow spike series to be run through a sorter, producing new data representing the sorted spikes.
• The ability to host services written in a number of languages including, but not limited to Matlab, R, Python, Perl, Java.
  
• A system to support metadata for data objects, which provides extensive support for entering metadata at the point of upload, and allows the generation of metadata from services to provide provenance information.
  
• The ability to invoke additional visualisation for the data, for example, via the Signal Data Explorer.
  

Screenshot

This is a view of the front page of the portal:

Examples

There are series of examples built into the portal, but additional information on these can be found here:

• Low Pass Filter
• High Pass Filter
• Spike Sorter

Help

There is extensive help built into the portal.

An introductory document is also available, as a PDF, that provides a short overview of the main functionality of the portal.  This is available here: Portal Overview

If a problem is encountered then a request ticket can be raised via support@carmen.org.uk