Abstract
This chapter demonstrates some of the computer programs and analysis techniques currently in use in our laboratory. A comparison with the techniques described in Chapters 11 and 12 will show that the methods shown here are not necessarily the most advanced ones. The level of automation is relatively low, so that the process of fitting channel transitions might be termed a computer-aided manual procedure. Our goal has been to make this procedure fairly rapid while still allowing the operator to observe every transition in the current record. The analysis is demonstrated with a recording of acetylcholine receptor currents that shows a variety of kinetic features.
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Sigworth, F.J. (1983). An Example of Analysis. In: Sakmann, B., Neher, E. (eds) Single-Channel Recording. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7858-1_14
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