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Documentation Contents

1. Introduction

   This section covers MARGO installation, a quickstart guide for getting started, and an introduction to the experiment setup workflow. New users should start here.

2. Tracking Tutorial

   Walkthrough tutorial of tracking experiment using a sample video. The section includes step by step instructions with images of how to navigate the GUI.

3. Experiment Setup Details

   In-depth look at each setup step, parameter tweaking during setup, and explanations of MARGO functionality under the hood. This section may be helpful to users looking to optimize the setup to suit their needs.

4. Data Analysis Tutorials

   Walkthrough tutorials of some sample analysis tasks to demonstrate the basics of how the raw data files are formatted and accessed, loading the ExperimentData object, generating new raw data files, and splitting data by experimental group.

5. Data Outputs

   Details of the raw binary data files (.bin), ExperimentData object, and trace browser. This section explains the format of the raw data files for users to write their own code to access the data, how to access the raw data via the ExperimentData object, the meta data contents of the *Experiment data object.

6. Options and Parameters

   Complete definitions of all MARGO parameters and documentation for GUI utilities such as: output options menu, distance scale conversion, manual ROI editing, and video recording.

7. Configuring Hardware

   Descriptions of sample tracking boxes and imaging configurations, camera support, serial COM support.

8. External Displays and Visual Stimuli

   Sample hardware implementation for visual stimulus delivery with external display, camera and display co-registration, targeting displayed stimuli to tracked objects.

9. Custom Experiments

   Tutorial example of defining a custom experiment with closed-loop control of a hardware device through a serial COM device.