
Calcium Signal Analyser Vamp plugin
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The Calcium Signal Analyser is a Vamp plugin for the detection and 
characterization of transients in noisy signals. It is adapted for
the analysis of calcium signals measured using confocal microscopy.

Copyright
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This code is Copyright (c) 2010-2011 Mathieu Barthet, Queen Mary 
University of London.

The plugin is based on the QM Vamp note onset detector developed 
by Christian Landone, Chris Duxbury, and Juan Pablo Bello.

The Vamp architecture is a feature extraction system developed at 
Queen Mary University of London (see more information at: 
http://www.vamp-plugins.org/).

About This Release
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This is release 2.

Changes between releases are reported in the CHANGELOG file provided
with the distribution.

License
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.  See the file
COPYING included with this distribution for more information.

Compiling
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If you are planning to compile the Calcium Signal Analyser Vamp plugin 
from source code, please read the file INSTALL.txt.

To Install
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Installation depends on your operating system.

    Win 32  -> Copy vamp-calciumsignalanalyser.dll, vamp-calciumsignalanalyser.cat (optional) and
               vamp-calciumsignalanalyser.n3 (optional) to C:\Program Files\Vamp Plugins\

    Win 64  -> Copy vamp-calciumsignalanalyser.dll, vamp-calciumsignalanalyser.cat (optional) and
               vamp-calciumsignalanalyser.n3 (optional) to C:\Program Files\Vamp Plugins (x86)\

    OS/X    -> Copy vamp-calciumsignalanalyser.dylib, vamp-calciumsignalanalyser.cat (optional) and
               vamp-calciumsignalanalyser.n3 (optional) to $HOME/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Vamp/
               or /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Vamp/

    Linux   -> Copy vamp-calciumsignalanalyser.so, vamp-calciumsignalanalyser.cat (optional) and
               vamp-calciumsignalanalyser.n3 (optional) to $HOME/vamp/ or /usr/local/lib/vamp/
               or /usr/lib/vamp/

Documentation
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Additional information on the plugin are given in the plugin documentation 
which can be found in the /doc directory of this distribution.

Credits and references
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This project was partly funded by the Queen Mary University of London 
Bridging the Gaps scheme (EPSRC grant no EP/F033133/1).


