BIDS-ephys: let's BIDSify your animal electrophysiology data

Title

BIDS-ephys: let’s BIDSify your animal electrophysiology data

Leaders

Sylvain Takerkart (@SylvainTakerkart), Julia Sprenger (@juliasprenger) (coordinators of the BIDS-extension proposal for animal electrophysiology)

Collaborators

Other members of the INCF working group on Neuroscience Data Structure

Brainhack Global 2021 Event

Brainhack Marseille

Project Description

We are working on an extension proposal so that BIDS (a standardized data structure described here) can support electrophysiological data recorded in animal models. Our working document that describes the data organization for animal ephys data is available here. It is now ready to be used, and we propose here that electrophysiologists can attempt applying this organization to their data, with the help of the community.

Link to project repository/sources

https://github.com/INT-NIT/BEP032tools/ https://gin.g-node.org/NeuralEnsemble/BEP032-examples

Goals for Brainhack Global

• Have as many electrophysiologists as possible convert their data to the proposed BIDS-ephys organization
• Identify potential problems in the specifications, solve them
• Make progress on the tools required to facilitate this conversion (some of them being present here)

Good first issues

1. issue one: Tell us about your data and let’s discuss how a conversion to animal-ephys BIDS can be implemented

Communication channels

https://mattermost.brainhack.org/brainhack/channels/bhg21-marseille-animal-ephys-bids

Skills

• Expertise in electrophysiology: 80%
• BIDS enthusiasts / expert: 70%
• Python programming: 60%

Onboarding documentation

No response

What will participants learn?

How to benefit from a standardized ephys data representation in BIDS and tools to convert data into that format.

Data to use

No response

Number of collaborators

1

Credit to collaborators

Project collaborators will be credited depending on their contribution either as example dataset provider (https://gin.g-node.org/NeuralEnsemble/BEP032-examples) or source code contributor (https://github.com/INT-NIT/BEP032tools)

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Type

data_management

Development status

1_basic structure

Topic

other

Tools

BIDS

Programming language

Python

Modalities

other

Git skills

4_not_applicable

Anything else?

No response

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