Example Dataset Generation#

Our tutorials focus on converting extracellular electrophysiology data in the SpikeGLX and Phy formats. To get you started as quickly as possible, we’ve created a way to generate this Neuropixel-like dataset at the click of a button!

Note

The SpikeGLX data format stores electrophysiology recordings.

The Phy data format stores spike sorting results.

Navigate to the Settings page using the button at the bottom of the main sidebar. Then press the Generate button in the top-right corner to initiate the dataset creation.

Dataset Creation Screen — Press the Generate button on the Settings page to create the dataset.#

The generated data will populate in the ~/NWB_GUIDE/test_data directory, where ~ is the home directory of your system. This includes both a single_session_data and multi_session_dataset folder to accompany the following tutorials.

test-data/
├── single_session_data/
│   ├── spikeglx/
│   │   ├── Session1_g0/
│   │   │   ├── Session1_g0_imec0/
│   │   │   │   ├── Session1_g0_t0.imec0.ap.bin
│   │   │   │   ├── Session1_g0_t0.imec0.ap.meta
│   │   │   │   ├── Session1_g0_t0.imec0.lf.bin
│   │   │   │   └── Session1_g0_t0.imec0.lf.meta
│   │   └── phy/
├── multi_session_dataset/
│   ├── mouse1/
│   │   ├── mouse1_Session1/
│   │   │   ├── mouse1_Session1_g0/
│   │   │   │   ├── mouse1_Session1_g0_imec0/
│   │   │   │   │   ├── mouse1_Session1_g0_t0.imec0.ap.bin
│   │   │   │   │   ├── mouse1_Session1_g0_t0.imec0.ap.meta
│   │   │   │   │   ├── mouse1_Session1_g0_t0.imec0.lf.bin
│   │   │   │   │   └── mouse1_Session1_g0_t0.imec0.lf.meta
│   │   │   │   └── mouse1_Session1_phy/
│   │   │   └── mouse1_Session2/
│   │   │       ├── mouse1_Session2_g0/
│   │   │       │   ...
│   │   │       └── mouse1_Session2_phy/
│   │   │           ...
│   ├── mouse2/
│   │   ├── mouse2_Session1/
│   │   │   ...
│   │   └── mouse2_Session2/
│   │       ...

Now you’re ready to start your first conversion using the NWB GUIDE!