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Welcome to the 6th NWB:N Developer Hackathon and User Days!!

Report

The final report for the 6th NWB:N Developer Hackathon and User Days is now available on GitHub (PDF)(LaTeX)

Dates and Location

  • Dates: May 13-16, 2019
    • User Days: May 13-14, 2019
    • Developer Days: May 15-16, 2019
  • Location: HHMI Janelia Research Campus, 19700 Helix Dr, Ashburn, VA 20147, Openstreetmap Directions
  • Meeting Rooms: For the meeting we have two rooms. The main room is Synapse and the breakout room is Spectrum. For details about the room locations see the building map.

Attendees

NWB:N User Days

Group Photo User Days

Credits: Photo by Matt Staley (HHMI Janelia)

NWB:N Developer Days

Group Photo Developer Days

Credits: Photo by Matt Staley (HHMI Janelia)

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Registration

Registration for the NWB:N User Days is closed. Space at the event is limited and registration was on a first-come basis.

To attend the meeting remotely, please complete the remote attendee registration form. Remote attendance is for the the talks and tutorials only. Local attendance is required in order to actively participate in hacking and project sessions.

Logistics

Housing: Housing will be onsite on the Janelia research campus. For details about transportation and logistics please see here

Travel: Travel support is being provided by the Kavli foundation. As housing will be onsite on the Janelia research campus, travel support is intended for flights (not housing). Funds available to support attendee travel are limited! Travel arrangements must be pre-approved by the Foundation’s Executive Assistant. If you use the Kavli travel services (recommended) then please CC Stephanie Albin (salbin@kavlifoundation.org) to get approval for the travel cost. Also, if you are planing to book your own flights then please make sure to get PRE-APPROVAL from Stephanie Albin (salbin at kavlifoundation.org). Please see the Kavli reimbursement guidelines for details. The traveler profile form is available here.

Directions: The Janelia Research Campus is located in Loudoun County, Virginia – just 30 miles from Washington, DC, and about eight miles north of Dulles International Airport (IAD). For directions see https://www.janelia.org/directions

Organizing Committee

Site chair: Karel Svoboda

Program chair (Developer Days): Oliver Rübel and Michael Grauer

Program chair (User Days): Oliver Rübel and Ben Dichter

Administrative Support: Janine Stevens

Additional Organizational Support

  • The Kavli Foundation
  • Janelia HHMI

Resources

Talks

The slides for the talks presented during the User Days are available here.

Code

Ben Dichter's electrophysiology tutorial (Day 1):

Tom Davidson's 'early adopter experiences' talk (Day 1):

What to bring?

  • Create the outline for your project at the hackathon. For further details and instructions on how to create a project see here
  • Bring any example data sets needed for your project with you to the hackathon. For any lab-specific data (i.e., data not in NWB:N) you should know how to read the data using Python and ideally have scripts ready for reading the data.
  • Bring your laptop with appropriate software installed. For instructions on how to install PyNWB see http://pynwb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.html#installation
  • For an overview of NWB:N see also: https://neurodatawithoutborders.github.io/

Objective

The Neurodata Without Borders: Neurophysiology project (NWB:N, https://neurodatawithoutborders.github.io/) is an effort to standardize the description and storage of neurophysiology data and metadata. NWB:N enables data sharing and reuse and reduces the energy-barrier to applying data analytics both within and across labs. Several laboratories, including the Allen Institute for Brain Science, have wholeheartedly adopted NWB:N. The community needs to join forces to achieve data standardization in neurophysiology.

The purpose of the hackathon is to bring the experimental neurophysiology community together to further adoption and the development of NWB:N, the NWB:N software libraries, and the progress of the scientific workflows that rely on NWB:N. Members of the community will exchange ideas and best practices for using NWB:N and the libraries, share NWB:N based tools, surface common needs, solve bugs, make feature requests, brainstorm about future funding and collaboration, and make progress on current blockages. The event will also enable NWB:N developers and users to interact with each other to facilitate communication, gather requirements, and train users.

The event is planned for 4 days, where the first two days will focus on user training and use-cases followed by two days focused on core development. Work involves collaborative, open source software development, with a focus on use cases, tools, and core development.

Note: This event is meant to foster community and collaboration around NWB:N, not competition. As such, this is really more of a "workshop" or "tutorial" than a "hackathon." There will be no judges nor prizes. Participants will be expected to bring data from their own lab and/or collaborate with others to build integration with NWB:N.

Agenda

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Projects

For instructions on how to create a project see here

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Attending Remotely

We are using Zoom for remote participation.There are multiple ways to join this meeting.

  1. Use the following link to Join the meeting from your desktop or cell: https://hhmi.zoom.us/j/122156921 (This will load the Zoom client and is recommended for the best audio quality!)

  2. From a cell phone if you are not able to use the first link : US: +19294362866,,122156921# or +16699006833,,122156921#

  3. From a standard telephone : Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 929 436 2866 or +1 669 900 6833 or 877 853 5257 (Toll Free) or 855 880 1246 (Toll Free) Meeting ID: 122 156 921 (Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/acHwiXLxGC)

  4. If you are in an HHMI conference room, use the touch panel to dial 2800. When prompted, type #122 156 921#

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