Navigating the website

The Zantiks website includes all of the coding necessary for running experiments. It is separated into 4 main categories: 

• Manuals: Includes the Zanscript syntax manual and all of the scripts for building assets for all of the different Zantiks systems.
• Protocols: Offers a number of complete experimental scripts for some common behavioural assays. These can be downloaded and run as they are or adapted to suit your experimental needs. 
• Zanscript - Operating stimuli: Provides the code for all of the various stimuli that Zantiks offer with detailed explanation of how the codes work.
• Zanscript - Writing experiments: Provides the code for all of the elements of running an experiment outside of stimuli such as writing and exporting data, tracking settings and making videos.

The video below runs through how to navigate the Zantiks website to find all of the relevant Zanscripts and codes.

Editing a Zanscript 

There are many ways in which a Zanscript can be written. The simplest way is often to take a pre-written script from the website that already includes most of the elements that you require and adapt it to your specific needs. 

In the video below we will use an example experiment that is not in the pre-written protocols page. A demo script for exporting data is downloaded from the website and adapted. The video covers:

• Uploading the correct asset building script from the website and making the asset for a 16-cuvette stand with top middle and bottom zones
• Uploading a demo script for writing and exporting zones data
• Editing the demo script from a 12-well plate with 2 zones to a 16-cuvette stand with 3 zones by changing the assets 
• Adjusting the data headings and data output from 12 arenas and 2 zones to 16 arenas and 3 zones.
• Changing the tracking settings from a zebrafish larvae to an adult Daphnia
• Adding a vibration stimuli to induce startles