createNWB

Compile YAU-Lab¹ behavior *.yaml, *.eye and electrophysiological² *.nev & *.nsX output files into an NWB³ format.

It uses Python 3.8 (https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-383/)

Note

only tested on Windows

Setup the environment

Create the environment

Open a new terminal and create a virtual environment:

py -3.8 -m virtualenv desiredFolder\NWBenv -p python3.8

Activate the environment

desiredFolder\NWBenv\Scripts\Activate

Install libraries

• NWB and YAML

python -m pip install PyYAML
python -m pip install -U pynwb
python -m pip install nwbinspector

• Ripple² library

  It requires python library for reading *.nev and *nsX files.
  

  Email Ripple support support@jessimischel.zendesk.com to get the folder "pyns3_beta"

  Once you get the folder, copy the folder into:

  desiredFolder\NWBenv\Lib\site-packages\

  Install pyns3_beta from main

  cd desiredFolder\NWBenv\Lib\site-packages\pyns3_beta
  python -m pip install -e .
  

How to use

In process of revision how to use this first version

Footnotes

1. https://yaulab.com/ ↩

2. https://rippleneuro.com/ ↩ ↩²

3. https://www.nwb.org/
   https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/pynwb ↩