readABF-package {readABF}

Loads Axon Binary Files

Description

Loads Axon Binary Files (both 'ABF' and 'ABF2') created by Axon Instruments/Molecular Devices software such as 'pClamp'.

Details

Reads ABF2 files, created by pClamp 10 and newer, and ABF files, created by pClamp 9 and older. Currently, code is tested under Linux only. For this purpose, multiple data sets are used which cannot be included in the package. We would very much appreciate to receive further data sets for testing purposes. A repository to upload data sets can be provided at request. Index of help topics:

as.data.frame.ABF       Coerces an ABF Object to a Data Frame
plot.ABF                Plots an ABF Object
print.ABF               Prints a Short Description of an ABF Object
readABF                 Reads ABF Files
readABF-package         Loads Axon Binary Files

Acknowledgements

• Support of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft grant SFB 803 Z2 is gratefully acknowledged.

• abfload by Harald Hentschke, Forrest Collman and Ulrich Egert was an important source of information.

• abf2 by Matthew Caldwell was a useful starting point.

• We would like to thank Harald Hentschke and his sources and the lab of Claudia Steinem for providing test data.