GUI without SpyKING CIRCUS

MATLAB

You may need to launch the MATLAB GUI on a personal laptop, where the data were not processed by the software itself, so where you only have MATLAB and SpyKING CIRCUS is not installed. This is feasible with the following procedure:

  • Copy the the result folder mydata on your computer
  • Create a MATLAB mapping for the probe you used, i.e. mapping.hdf5 (see the following procedure below to create it)
  • Open MATLAB
  • Set the folder circus/matlab_GUI as the default path
  • Launch the following command SortingGUI(sampling, 'mydata/mydata', '.mat', 'mapping.hdf5', 2)

You just need to copy the following code snippet into a file generate_mapping.py.

import sys, os, numpy, h5py

probe_file = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[1])

def generate_matlab_mapping(probe):
    p         = {}
    positions = []
    nodes     = []
    for key in probe['channel_groups'].keys():
        p.update(probe['channel_groups'][key]['geometry'])
        nodes     +=  probe['channel_groups'][key]['channels']
        positions += [p[channel] for channel in probe['channel_groups'][key]['channels']]
    idx       = numpy.argsort(nodes)
    positions = numpy.array(positions)[idx]

    t     = "mapping.hdf5"
    cfile = h5py.File(t, 'w')
    to_write = {'positions' : positions/10., 'permutation' : numpy.sort(nodes), 'nb_total' : numpy.array([probe['total_nb_channels']])}
    for key in ['positions', 'permutation', 'nb_total']:
        cfile.create_dataset(key, data=to_write[key])
    cfile.close()
    return t

probe = {}
with open(probe_file, 'r') as f:
    probetext = f.read()
    exec probetext in probe

mapping = generate_matlab_mapping(probe)

And then simply launch:

>> python generate_mapping.py yourprobe.prb

Once this is done, you should see a file mapping.hdf5 in the directory where you launch the command. This is the MATLAB mapping.

Note

If you do not have h5py installed on your machine, launch this script on the machine where SpyKING CIRCUS has been launched

phy

After the converting step, you must have a folder mydata/mydata.GUI. You simply need to copy this folder onto a computer without SpyKING CIRCUS, but only phy_ and phylib_. In this folder, you should see a file params.py, generated during the converting step. So in a terminal, you simply need to go to this folder, and launch from a terminal:

>> phy template-gui params.py

If the raw data are not found, the Traceview will not be displayed. If you really want to see that view, remember that you need to get the raw data filtered, so you must also copy them back from your sorting machine.