- Dates and Location
- Registration
- Logistics
- Organizing Committee
- Resources
- How to prepare?
- Objective
- Projects
- Agenda
The final report for the 8th NWB User Days is now available on GitHub (PDF)(LaTeX)
- Dates: May 12-15, 2020
- Location: Your home!
The workshop is open to the public. Please complete our registration form to attend the event. Anyone interested in NWB may request an invitation.
We will be using Zoom for the meeting. We will send an email the day before the workshop with Zoom links for each day.
It is possible to use Zoom from the browser, but we recommend you install the Zoom app on your computer or phone. See installation instructions here.
Program chairs: Benjamin Dichter, Ryan Ly, Andrew Tritt, Pam Baker, and Oliver Rübel
Additional organizational support is provided by the Kavli Foundation
Recorded talks will be uploaded after the talks are given.
- Create a project page with an outline for your workshop project. For further details and instructions on how to create a project, see here
- Have example datasets that you need for your workshop project ready. For any lab-specific data (i.e., data not in NWB) you should know how to read the data using Python or MATLAB and ideally have scripts ready for reading the data.
- Install the Python or MATLAB software for NWB:
- PyNWB (Python): https://pynwb.readthedocs.io/en/stable/getting_started.html
- MatNWB (MATLAB): https://neurodatawithoutborders.github.io/matnwb/
- For an overview of NWB, see also: https://www.nwb.org/
The Neurodata Without Borders: Neurophysiology project (NWB, https://www.nwb.org/) is an effort to standardize the description and storage of neurophysiology data and metadata. NWB enables data sharing and reuse and reduces the energy-barrier to applying data analytics both within and across labs. Several laboratories, including the Allen Institute for Brain Science, have wholeheartedly adopted NWB. The community needs to join forces to achieve data standardization in neurophysiology.
The purpose of the NWB User Days training workshop is to bring the experimental neurophysiology community together to further adoption and the development of NWB, the NWB software libraries, and the progress of the scientific workflows that rely on NWB. Members of the community will exchange ideas and best practices for using NWB and the libraries, share NWB-based tools, surface common needs, solve bugs, make feature requests, brainstorm about future funding and collaboration, and make progress on current blockages. The event will also enable NWB developers and users to interact with each other to facilitate communication, gather requirements, and train users.
In contrast to conferences, where the primary focus is to report results, the objective of the Hackathon is to provide a venue for NWB users and tool developers to learn about NWB and collaboratively work on any NWB-related research projects. This event is meant to foster community and collaboration around NWB, not competition. There will be no judges nor prizes. Participants will be expected to bring data from their lab, software they would like to integrate with NWB, and/or collaborate with others to build integration with NWB.
For instructions on how to create a project see here
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