Open-Source Solutions for Modern Neuroscience

New Atlantis Laboratories develops open-source software and hardware designs for the neuroscience research community with the goal of accelerating scientific discovery. Conducting novel scientific research often requires the development of custom tools to address specific needs for which there are no commercially available solutions. Accessible, well documented, open-source solutions that permit sharing and modification provide researchers with more developed starting points, and are therefore critical to improving research efficiency. New Atlantis strives to assist the research community through the free and open distribution of knowledge and resources.

Open Hardware Projects

New Atlantis Laboratories’ open hardware projects are hosted on Thingiverse and licensed under the permissive CERN open-hardware 2.0 license, while the accompanying documentation is hosted here on ReadTheDocs and licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

PrimaThrone (MRI)

Behavioral testing and functional imaging chairs for non-human primates.

PrimaThrone (E.phys)

Behavioral testing and electrophysiology chairs for non-human primates.

METHVEx

Macaque Eye-Tracking for Head-free Visual Experiments.

A chin-rest design for head stabilization in human psychophysics research.

Open Software Projects

New Atlantis Laboratories’ open software projects are hosted in publicly accessible online repositories on GitLab and GitHub, and licensed under the copyleft GNU Public License v3.0 (GPL3).

Virtual macaque monkey avatar media and Blender software tools for studying social processing in non-human primates.

Image-Guided Neurosurgical Implantation Tools for Invasive Open Neuroscience. A Slicer module.

Experimental control system for behavioral neuroscience

Multidrive Implant Designer for Anatomical Specificity. A FreeCAD workbench for designing custom cranial implant hardware.

About

New Atlantis Laboratories takes its name from the 1626 utopian novel by Sir Francis Bacon, in which he described a fictitious island where people held attitudes towards the free and open dissemination of knowledge that we refer to today as ‘open science’. The goal of New Atlantis Laboratories is to make a range of niche digital tools developed for specific applications within behavioural neuroscience research publicly available to the research community. In addition to software tools this includes hardware designs released under permissive open-source licenses that allow commercial enterprises to acquire, develop, fabricate and retail these designs.