Kwik files in file reader

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Software for processing, recording, and visualizing multichannel electrophysiology data

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Kwik files in file reader #539

Open tduvan opened 1 year ago

tduvan commented 1 year ago

Hi,

I'm trying to visualize data from experiments that are saved in Kwik format. I've tried gum versions 4, 5 and 6 but was unable to open the files. Then I've found out that there is a related plugin but when I open the install plugin tab nothing comes up in the list.

Could you help me with the issue?

jsiegle commented 1 year ago

How were these Kwik files generated? The Kwik format has been deprecated for a while now, but if you saved a Kwik file with the Open Ephys GUI, you can probably read it back in with the same software version. If they were created a different way, then it likely won't work.

If at all possible, I would recommend extracting the data in Python or Matlab and re-saving it in Binary format. The open-ephys-python-tools package includes a function for writing the necessary metadata file.