NWB Workshops and Hackathons
All times are in Central European Summer Time (CEST; UTC+2)
This calendar view shows the workshop agenda. We strongly encourage you to attend the first three hours of Day 1 for an introduction to NWB and NWB software tools. In the afternoons of all three days, there will be optional breakout sessions where you can learn more about community software tools that support NWB. And in the mornings of Days 2 and 3, there will be optional tutorials on how to use NWB for different types of data and situations, as well as a discussion about NWB and data standardization in neurophysiology on Day 3.
We recommend that you attend the sessions that would be useful to you. When you are not attending a session, we encourage you to work on your NWB-related projects (e.g., converting your data to NWB, doing NWB exercises, running the tutorials yourself). Developers will be available to answer questions on Slack throughout the workshop, as well as on Zoom during the virtual coffee breaks.
You can add this Google Calendar or iCal calendar to your personal calendar to see the workshop sessions in your time zone.
Detailed agenda:
| Day 1 | Monday, September 21 | ||||||||
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| 8:45 - 9am (CEST) | Call-in time, work out any technical issues | ||||||||
| 9 - 9:10am | Welcome and introduction: How to get the most out of this workshop (Ryan Ly) | ||||||||
| 9:10 - 9:55am | Overview of NWB: An ecosystem for neurophysiology data standardization (Oliver Ruebel) Recording on YouTube |
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| 10 - 11:45am |
NWB tools showcase (5-7 min per tool),
- MIES - calciumImagingAnalysis - CaImAn - suite2p - SpikeInterface - DataJoint - NWB Explorer / Open Source Brain - NWB Widgets - DANDI - NWB & DataJoint Integration in the Frank Lab, UCSF |
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| 12 - 1pm | Break / Virtual coffee shop - Hack on projects, do NWB exercises, ask questions to NWB developers on Zoom |
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| 1 - 2pm | Tutorial: Reading NWB data in Python and Matlab (Ben Dichter, Ryan Ly)
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| 2 - 6pm |
In-depth tool breakout sessions, Day 1:
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| Day 2 | Tuesday, September 22 | ||||||
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| 9 - 9:55am | Introduction to NWB for intracellular electrophysiology (Oliver Ruebel, Pam Baker)
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| 10 - 10:55am | Introduction to NWB for extracellular electrophysiology in Python (Ryan Ly)
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| 11 - 11:55am | Introduction to NWB for extracellular electrophysiology in MATLAB (Ben Dichter)
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| 12pm - 12:55pm | Introduction to NWB for optical physiology in Python (Ryan Ly)
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| 1pm - 1:55pm | Introduction to NWB for optical physiology in MATLAB (Ben Dichter)
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| 2 - 3pm | Break / Virtual coffee shop - Hack on projects, do NWB exercises, ask questions to NWB developers on Zoom | ||||||
| 3 - 6pm |
In-depth tool breakout sessions, Day 2:
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| Day 3 | Wednesday, September 23 | ||||||
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| 9 - 9:45am | NWB extensions: How to store and share non-standardized data types in NWB (Ryan Ly) Recording on YouTube |
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| 9:50 - 10:20am | Advanced write in PyNWB (compression, chunking, iterative write, and parallel access) (Andrew Tritt) <a href=https://youtu.be/wduZHfNOaNg>Recording on YouTube</a> |
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| 10:20 - 10:40am | Advanced write in MatNWB (compression, chunking, and iterative write) (Ben Dichter) <a href=https://youtu.be/PIE_F4iVv98>Recording on YouTube</a> |
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| 10:40 - 10:55am | Review of workshop projects | ||||||
| 11 - 11:55am | Discussion: The current state of NWB and data standardization in neurophysiology
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| 12 - 3pm | Break / Virtual coffee shop - Hack on projects, do NWB exercises, ask questions to NWB developers on Zoom | ||||||
| 3 - 6pm |
In-depth tool breakout sessions, Day 3:
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