Desktop Software for Patch-Clamp Raw Binary Data Conversion and Preprocessing

Table 2

List of some of the properties and methods of the clsPulseData class.

	Name	Description
Properties	CacuExpression	Set or return the calculation expression for raw data preprocessing.
	DataFormat	Return the data format of a given Sweep (i.e., int16, int32, real32, or real64).
	FileNameDat, FileNamePul, FileNamePgf	Set or return the *.dat, *.pul or *.pgf file name (with entire path), respectively.
	GroupCount, SeriesCount, SweepCount	Return the number of Groups in the experiment, the number of Series in a given Group, and the number of Sweeps in a given Series, respectively.
	HasLeak, HasSecond	Return whether the leak and the second trace exist or not, respectively.
	PtrInPgfSeries	Return the pointer of a Series in *.pgf file.
	PtrInPulGroup, PtrInPulSeries, PtrInPulSweep	Return the pointer of a Group, a Series, and a Sweep in *.pul file, respectively.
	SampleRate	Return the sample rate.
Methods	CloseFile	Close the opened files, release all resources.
	OpenPulseDataFile	Open the *.dat file along with the *.pul and *.pgf files. Only construct the data structure in memory, without loading all data from files.
	PulseReadData	Read and return a continuous data stream from raw data file given a trace and a range of start and end time.
	SweepIdxToIdxes	Given an index of Sweep in the data structure, return the corresponding indexes of Group, Series, and Sweep in raw data, respectively.