User Days, 2018

User Days, 2018

April 26, 2018 - April 27, 2018

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

Hackathon

Summary

A two-day event at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory focused on training new users on NWB:N, promoting adoption, and facilitating communication between users and developers.

Dates and Location

Objective

The Neurodata Without Borders: Neurophysiology project (NWB:N, www.nwb.org) is an effort to standardize the description and storage of neurophysiology data and metadata. NWB:N enables data sharing/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:N. The community needs to join forces to achieve data standardization in neurophysiology.

This hackathon event invited experts from the neuroscience community to explore adopting NWB:N for their data sharing needs and lab use cases. The goal of this event was to:

  • Train new users on NWB:N
  • Promote adoption of NWB:N
  • Work with users on programming projects, e.g, to integrate examples of their labs data into NWB:N
  • Facilitate communication between users and developers and project teams
  • Engage with the community

Slides and Materials

  • Agenda [PDF]
  • Online Tutorials, The online tutorials for PyNWB that were used and mentioned in the talks are available here
  • Welcome to the NWB:N Hackathon @ LBNL, Oliver Ruebel, 04/26/2018, 8am [PDF]
  • Neurodata Without Borders, Kris Bouchard, 04/26/2018, 8:10am [PDF]
  • Introduction to NWB:N – An ecosystem for standardizing neurophysiology data, Oliver Ruebel, 04/26/2018, 8:20am [PDF]
  • NWB:N and PyNWB – A Python API for standardizing neurophysiology data Andrew Tritt, 04/26/2018, 8:40am [PDF]
  • NWB:N I/O – ephys, Ben Dichter, 04/26/2018, 11:10am [PDF]

Additional Organizational Support

  • The Kavli Foundation

Event Details

Date & Time

April 26, 2018 - April 27, 2018

Location

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

Event Type

Hackathon

Organizers

  • Oliver Ruebel
  • Andrew Tritt
  • Kristofer Bouchard

Registration

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