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Introduction

Eventer is a programme designed for the detection of spontaneous synaptic events measured by electrophysiology or imaging. The software combines deconvolution for detection and variable length template matching approaches for screening out false positive events. Eventer also includes a machine learning based approach, utilising a Random Forest algorithm that allows users to train a model fitting their own ‘expert’ selection criteria from exemplar data increasing the reproducibility of the analysis procedure. The software is a MATLAB app but it has also been compiled as standalone applications for 64-bit Windows, Mac and Linux. These standalone applications only require users to download and install freely available MATLAB runtime environments.

System Requirements

Eventer requires the freely available MATLAB runtime environment installed in one of the following operating systems: Windows 64-bit, Linux 64-bit, Intel Mac 64-bit. Please see documentation for the MATLAB runtime environment for details on runtime-specific system requirements.

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Installation

Windows

The Windows operating system will detect whether the correct MATLAB runtime is installed and defined in the environmental variables, automatically downloading and installing the runtime if it is not. The version of the MATLAB runtime used to compile the standalone application is provided in the name of the installer.

Mac OSX

For Mac OSX the .dmg contains both the application and an install.txt file containing instructions to download and install the correct runtime. The version of the MATLAB runtime used to compile the standalone application is provided in the name of the installer.

Linux

Load a terminal in the directory of the install file and install Eventer using the following commands:
chmod a+x Eventer-v1.4.0-Linux64-R2023b.install
./Eventer-v1.4.0-Linux64-R2023b.install
You should be able to choose to install to any location within your home directory. Make a note of where you install Eventer and the MATLAB Runtime. If you intend to install to the default system directories you should use the sudo command version instead.
sudo ./Eventer-v1.4.0-Linux64-R2023b.install
Once installed, run eventer from the command line as follows (replacing path/to/ with the
actual path):
path/to/eventer/application/run_Eventer.sh path/to/MATLAB_Runtime/<version>

Tested Operating Systems

Eventer is known to be compatible with:

Windows	Linux	Mac OS
Windows 7	Ubuntu 14.04.6 Trusty Tahr	Sierra (10.12)
Windows 10	Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa	High Sierra (10.13)
		Mojave (10.14)
		Catalina (10.15)
		Big Sur (11)