Data set for: El-Boustani S, Sermet BS, Foustoukos G, Oram TB, Yizhar O, Petersen CCH (2020) Anatomically and functionally distinct thalamocortical inputs to primary and secondary mouse whisker somatosensory cortices. Nature Communications 11: 3342. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17087-7 There are 4 files in this upload: 1. The file named "2020_El-Boustani_NCOMMS.pdf" is the Open Access pdf file of the manuscript published in Nature Communications. 2. The file named "2020_El-Boustani_NCOMMS_SupMovie1.avi" is Supplementary Movie 1 in .avi format, accompanying the Nature Communications publication. 2. The file named "2020_El-Boustani_NCOMMS_SupMovie2.avi" is Supplementary Movie 2 in .avi format, accompanying the Nature Communications publication. 4. The file named "El-Boustani_data_code.zip" (~36 GB) is a zipped version of a folder "El-Boustani_data_code" (~45 GB), which contains the data analysed in the study along with the Matlab code used to generate the published figures. To access the data and the code, first unzip the file. In the main folder, data for all experiments are stored within folders starting by the prefix “SB”. The code for generating population data and plotting figures from the paper are in the folder “Matlab_code”. In this folder, several Matlab scripts are named after the panels or figures they will plot such as “Plot_Fig3d_Axon_GCaMP6s_traces_example.m”. After opening each file, executing the script will automatically plot the panels and name them accordingly. In some files, the type of data to plot should be specified at the very beginning of the script: “VPM” for VPM data, “POMf” for POm-FO data and “Layer1” for POm-HO data in layer 1. For figure 2, the code is located in a dedicated folder where a Matlab file “Plot_Fig2d_g_Populatin_Plot_POm_FO_HO.m” is used to generate the figures. Finally, other Matlab files are included that are used to create population .mat files or for additional analysis related to the manuscript.

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