iPhone Remote Control Remote start and stop all tracking systems in your lab with only one device. Our iOS Viewer Remote Control app runs on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. It uses local WirelessLAN for communication but does not require internet connection. [March 2012]

RFID chip reader integration Do you chip your animals? Viewer can now import RFID information to the experiment meta data input fields. Simply feed the Viewer by holding the test animal next to the RFID reader before you put it into the test apparatus or maze setup. All Viewer versions, even if yours is years old, can handle the RFID reader. Watch a short YouTube video [February 2012]

New address in 2012 Siegburger Str. 35, 53757 St. Augustin, Germany BIOBSERVE moves to a larger office. The new phone number +49 2241 3974 200 will be valid from December 2011 on, while the existing number is still valid till end of the year 2011. [November 2011]

New Viewer plug-in released: It was always possible to import any kind of analog data stream into the BIOBSERVE tracking system. Now you can also export behavioral data from Viewer in a format you can import into NeuroExplorer from Nex Technologies. [September 2011]

BIOBSERVE exhibition in Seville, Spain Meet us at the 43'rd 'European Brain and Behaviour Society Meeting 2011' [September 2011]

BIOBSERVE started a YouTube channel On our new YouTube channel you can find product presentations from trade shows and conferences. Soon we will also offer tutorial videos for our systems. [August 2011]

BIOBSERVE exhibition in Bloomington, Indiana, USA Meet us at the conference 'Behavior 2011' [July 2011]

BIOBSERVE sponsors 3'rd Postgraduate ONWAR Course in Behavioral Neuroscience: In vivo Phenotyping of Mutant Rodents Integrating Neural Activity, Neurochemistry, Heart Rate & Behavior VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 22-27, 2011 Organizers: Oliver Stiedl, Tommy Pattij & Matthijs Verhage Guest speakers: Karl Deisseroth, Bart Ellenbroek, Ilan Golani, Cornelius Gross, Stephan von Hörsten, Martien J.H. Kas, Antonnius B. Mulder, Paul E.M. Philipps, Sabine Spijker, Per Svenningsson, Joost Verhaagen, Taco J. de Vries, Catharine A. Winstanley [August 2011]

Info Registration

BIOBSERVE exhibition in Washington DC, USA Meet us at the conference 'experimental biology, EB 2011'.   Booth #941 [April 2011]

BIOBSERVE customer takes the lead in Optogenetics - method of the year 2010 (nature magazin) Researchers are able to control particular cellular behaviors by light stimuli. In an extended manner even brain regions can be addressed and therefore behavior can be influenced. Karl Deisseroth et al. published some of the best known articles on this topic. Read more ... [March 2011]

Introducing nature video

Fear Learning and Extinction in an Automated Home Cage (DualCage) Environment Biobserve CEOs publish scientific poster together with CNCR Amsterdam scientists on the Ninth Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society Prof. O. Stiedl et.al. reported first results and experiences with the DualCage system that was developed in a cooperation with Biobserve. [March 2011]

Poster

BIOBSERVE exhibition in Göttingen, Germany Meet us at the 'Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society'. [March 2011]

BIOBSERVE exhibition in Barcelona, Spain Meet us at the '10th international Conference on Alzheimer's & Parkinson's Deseases. AD/PD 2011'.   Booth #28 [March 2011]

Dr. Gil G. Rosenthal shows his elaborated setup on the web page Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) JoVE publishes reviewed vidoes of scientific experimental approaches. The title of the video is Automated Interactive Video Playback for Studies of Animal Communication BIOBSERVE implemented Gil's ideas. [February 2011]

BIOBSERVE takes a role in the BRAINTRAIN project. BRAINTRAIN is funded by the European Commission. BIOBSERVE cooperates in experiment design and provides software delvelopement. In January the company was deeply involved in organizing and realizing the BRAINTRAIN workshop in Amsterdam. Partners were selected on their outstanding publication records and ability to integrate different disciplines. BrainTrain builds on our knowledge of genome information and exploits innovative technologies and infrastructure to integrate this to unravel the (dys)function of living neurons, networks and the whole brain. Local specialists offer network-wide training and meetings. [citation from the FP7 Website] [January 2011]

BIOBSERVE exhibition in San Diego, California, USA Meet us at the 40th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. [November 2010]

BIOBSERVE exhibition in Rostock - Warnemünde, Germany Meet us at the conference 'Neuroprotection Neurorepair'. 6th international symposium. The Magdeburg Meeting Series. [October 2010]

Since 2009 BIOBSERVE has a ISO 9001 cerification. The German Association for Technical Inspection approved the companie's quality management in its scope: 'Development and sales of technologies for the synchronized recording and real time analysis of analog and digital signals for behavioral research and training & simulation scenarios'. [November 2009]

Gain new insights from heat maps and other sophisticated diagrams. BIOBSERVE tracking software can now convert track data in almost any type of diagram you can imagine
The newly released DiagramPlus extension for ViewerII produces eye-catching visualizations. It spices up posters and underlines results with expressive diagrams.
Even heat maps that base on a complete result pool are realized within minutes. Thereby the software is flexible enough to allow design customization by the user.
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[September 2009]

New Barnes Maze Plug-In for the BIOBSERVE tracking software
This new extension for the ViewerII is capable of high throughput Barnes Maze analysis. It reliably extracts Barnes Maze relevant information from the tracking software's results and issues expressive result tables.
No further processing by the user is required. Statistics cover single experiments as well as group analyses.
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[August 2009]

Touch screen Skinner Box with Pigeon software
The new Pigeon software assists in operant conditioning experiments in all work steps. It fully controls the Skinner Box and delivers a nice result table you can easily transform into a training curve.
As a mainly software producing company BIOBSERVE often develops experimental setups, built with other companies' hardware. BIOBSERVE's special ability to control external hardware and to integrate data streams from almost any kind of sensors leads to generic and exceptional results like this.
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[July 2009]

Spectator GO! reloaded
We adapted our popular observational data collection software Spectator GO! to the iPhone and the iPod touch. Great devices for easy outdoor data acquisition - even with GPS information integrated.
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[November 2008]

Services & Consulting
After several customer requests for workflow and data management consulting, BIOBSERVE now offers services that will streamline the whole workflow in your lab.
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[October 2008]

Project Administration software
Project Administration is a new tool to schedule and manage experiments. The software interacts with our data acquisition solutions (Viewer, Forced Swim Test Analysis, Tail Suspension Test Analysis, MLog) and our data mining solution PhenoFinder. You can easily plan experiment projects and the data are shared between the different applications.
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[August 2008]

Object Recognition - It' more than a point in a zone
Our new Object Recognition Plug-In offers user definable parameters to detect object recognition events and a database to administer the different objects.
Definable parameters:
• Distance to the object
• Object within angle of view
• Max. Velocity within distance
• Min. Time within distance
• Sniffing behavior
Flexible statistics, group analysis and graphing included.
[November 2007]

Correlate ultrasound to the behavior
The new Ultrasound Plug-In for our three-point tracking software Viewer enables you to correlate ultrasound events to the behavior of the animal. Record and analyze ultrasound simultaneously to the tracking data.
[July 2007]

New section Movies & Downloads on our website
In this section we present a movie and documents library for our different products.
The videos show screen movies of the programs in action and you can download brochures and presentations for each product.
[May 2007]

New product Tail Suspension Test Analysis
Similar to our reliable high throughput Forced Swim Test Analysis we now offer a video based solution for the Tail Suspension Test. The system can analyze up to 16 animals simultaneously and includes a project and animal management tool as well as extensive statistics and group analysis calculations and graphs.
Read more...
[May 2007]

Kick off of the BIOBSERVE Partner Programs
BIOBSERVE establishes two partner programs for users and companies.
While the User Partner Program is a platform for customers to participate in the development of new products, the Company Partner Program has the aim to establish a vendor network that provides integrated solutions for complex research projects where products of different vendors must be integrated.
[May 2007]

Rotation Plug-In for the Viewer software
Measuring rotation has become very easy with this new Rotation Plug-In.
With mice or rats you can now filter rotations based on several parameters in real time. Detailed results and graphs provide all information about each single rotations and statistics for the experiment.
[April 2007]

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