Launching the GUIs

You have several options and GUIs to visualize your results, just pick the one you are the most comfortable with!

Matlab GUI

To launch the MATLAB GUI provided with the software, you need of course to have a valid installation of MATLAB, and you should be able to simply do:

>> circus-gui-matlab path/mydata.extension

Note that in a near future, we plan to integrate all the views of the MATLAB GUI into phy

To reload a particular dataset, that have been saved with a special suffix, you just need to do:

>> circus-gui-matlab path/mydata.extension -e suffix

This allows you to load a sorting session that has been saved and not finished. Also, if you want to load the results obtained by the Meta Merging GUI, you need to do:

>> circus-gui-matlab path/mydata.extension -e merged

Python GUI

To launch the Python GUI, you need a valid installation of phy and phycontrib, and you should be able to simply do:

>> spyking-circus path/mydata.extension -m converting -c N

Followed by:

>> circus-gui-python path/mydata.extension

As you see, first, you need to export the data to the phy format using the converting option (you can use several CPUs with the -c flag if you want to export a lot of Principal Components). This is because as long as phy is still under development, this is not the default output of the algorithm. Depending on your parameters, a prompt will ask you if you want to compute all/some/no Principal Components for the GUI. While it may be interesting if you are familiar with classical clustering and PCs, you should not consider exploring PCs for large datasets.

Note

If you want to export the results that you have processed after the Meta Merging GUI, you just need to specify the extension to choose for the export:

>> spyking-circus path/mydata.extension -m converging -e merged
>> circus-gui-python path/mydata.extension -e merged