Wormsense Lab Data - ASH

Electrophysiological recordings of ASH neuron from Wormsense Lab of Miriam Goodman.

This code uses a metadata spreadsheet and .dat files acquired from the HEKA Patchmaster software to generate NWB files with experimental data.

Example converted data file shown here:

How to use

The data can be converted by running the following command while in the src directory:

python goodman_to_nwb_conversion.py

This goodman_to_nwb_conversion.py file can be edited to convert additional datasets, overwrite existing files, or use other metadata spreadsheets (see example below).

    metadata_filename = '..//test_data//ASH-metadata_12_III_29.xls'
    cell_list = ['ASH097', 'ASH116', 'ASH230', 'ASH287']
    overwrite = True

    convert_goodman_to_nwb(metadata_filename, cell_list, overwrite)

The x_to_nwb module used to convert .dat files to .nwb format was forked from byte-physics/x_to_nwb and adapted to be compatible with data acquired from older Patchmaster versions (pre v2x90). This module has also been adapted to support a metadata input that can be used to incorporate additional experiment information when generating the NWB file.

Current state of the project

Note, data is in the process of being moved here from https://github.com/OpenSourceBrain/GSoC_2021_OSB_NWB.

Current outstanding question and remaining to-do items for a fully converted dataset are described in the documentation: doc/dat_to_nwb_testing.md

Example datasets

A number of example converted datasets have been added to this repository here.