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This folder contains Python scripts: - mat2h5.py, make_nwb.py and mat2nwb.py, that allow conversion of data files from MAT to NWB format (MAT => NWB), together with - several utility scripts for exploring the data in both HDF5 and NWB files, and - a library file h5lib.py which defines the functions shared by all other scripts. For a single input file, the MAT => NWB conversion can be performed in 2 steps: - MAT => HDF5 conversion, performed by the script mat2h5.py the resulting HDF5 file preserves the structure of the original MAT file as closely as possible; this step is not data-specific, i.e. applicable to any MAT file, possibly comprising nested data structures with arbitrary number of nesting levels; and - HDF5 => NWB conversion, performed by script make_nwb.py, which employs NWB API (see the upper level folder "api-python"); this step is very data-specific; the current version of script make_nwb.py supports conversion of data generated by Dr. Karel Svoboda lab at Janelia Farm research facility of HHMI. The script mat2nwb.py combines the two conversion steps in a pipeline that allows parallel conversion of large amounts of data using SGI compute cluster. NOTE: script mat2h5.py makes use of the loadmat function of scipy package. We observed an issue (truncation of strings) when using this function with Python 2.x on Scientific Linux platform ( see scipy/scipy#5984 ). Because of this issue, the 1st of the two steps of conversion is recommended to be performed using Python 3.x. The second step works fine with Python 2.x. In order to see usage of any script, type its name. To see available options for scripts mat2h5.py, make_nwb.py and mat2nwb.py, type the name of the script followed by flag "-h". Example of usage of the script mat2h5.py: python3 mat2h5.py <data>.mat # file <data>.h5 will be produced python3 mat2h5.py <metadata>.mat # file <metadata>.h5 will be produced Examples of usage of the script make_nwb.py: - if metadata is not included in the data file: make_nwb.py <data>.h5 <metadata>.h5 # file <data>.nwb will be produced - otherwise: make_nwb.py <data>.h5 # file <data>.nwb will be produced Examples of usage of the script mat2h5.py: - on motor cortex data: mat2nwb.py data_dir -M - on somatosensory cortex data: mat2nwb.py data_dir -S where data_dir is a folder containing data and metadata files in the case of motor cortex data conversion and data files in the case of somatosensory cortex data conversion. To make use of these scripts, the user must define environment variable NWB_DATA, which points to the full path to the root data directory. This directory, in particular, will contain files data_collection.txt, experiment_description.txt, and surgery.txt, which are used as additional metadata. All the other data passed to the scripts may be specified as paths ralative to this root directory.
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Conversion of Svoboda lab MATLAB files to NWB format.
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