User Guide

👋 Welcome to the YSA User Guide!

This guide is organized into several sections covering installation, setup, and how to use the application’s main features.

If you’re new to YSA, start with the Installation section to set up the application. Then, continue with the Walkthrough for a step-by-step guide through opening files, running analyses, and viewing results.

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🔍 Use the search bar at the top of the page to quickly find specific topics across the guide.

Contents

Getting Started

📦 Installation

Set up YSA on your machine

🛠️ Configuration

Adjust settings for your data and recordings

🛣️ Walkthrough

Step-by-step guide to running analyses

Advanced Features

🗺️ Layout Overview

Explore the structure of YSA — how menus, panes, and tabs fit together.

⚙️ Menu Bar

Learn what each menu item does — including access to file operations, configuration, and help.

🧮 Main Tab Overview

Understand the role of the main analysis tab and its sub-tools.

🖱️ Left Pane

Interact with the MEA grid, select electrodes, and view the false color map or the raster plot.

📊 Right Pane

Analyze visualizations using tools like trace plots and the control panel.

🧭 Discharge Propagation Tracking

Visualize how seizure-like events spread across the slice — frame-by-frame across time and space.