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Support for syncing data from multiple Neuropixels as well as an NIDQ device when using SpikeGLX for acquisition

Open manimoh opened this issue 2 years ago • 7 comments

Hi! I was wondering if there was a functionality on syncing all the data-streams from 1 or more NPX probes as well as the analog digital channels on the NIDQ device, when using SpikeGLX for acquisition. While SpikeGLX provides command-line functionality to sync individual timestamps (spike timing, event onset etc) across various devices using their 'TPrime' command, there is no way to synchronize the the continuous data-streams acquired on different devices (for example LFP channels from 2 different Neurpixels probes, and an analog channel on the NIDQ device which actually recordings the running speed of the animals).

I see that there is some work in progress here, but was wondering if that function will satisfy the requirements I am asking about, or are there alternate ways to achieve it!

manimoh avatar Nov 21 '23 17:11 manimoh

Hi Manish. This is on my todo list since almost 1.5 years! I swear I will do it for christmas but I prefer to not tell which year :)

I have private code somewhere that is doing this I need to propagate to that place this should be quite easy. Leave this issue open and feel free to write "ping" in the discussion every 2 weeks.

samuelgarcia avatar Nov 22 '23 08:11 samuelgarcia

I actually would appreciate this functionality for my own use -- happy to help debug/test it :)

manimoh avatar Nov 22 '23 15:11 manimoh

"ping" @samuelgarcia :)

manimoh avatar Dec 04 '23 14:12 manimoh

Sorry for being annoying, but "ping"

manimoh avatar Jan 24 '24 16:01 manimoh

Hi @manimoh. Thank you the recurent ping. I am quite busy witha big refactporing the month. Do not stop the ping! After this big work I will try to implement your need in spikeinterface. Sorry for the very long delay. Have a nice day.

samuelgarcia avatar Jan 29 '24 07:01 samuelgarcia

"Ping"

manimoh avatar Apr 24 '24 19:04 manimoh

@samuelgarcia still interested in this? we need it for conversion of our neuropixels data.

TheChymera avatar Jun 25 '24 14:06 TheChymera

Hi @samuelgarcia , how can we can help with implementing this?

guptadivyansh avatar Mar 13 '25 16:03 guptadivyansh

@guptadivyansh if you have some solutions it would be great to draft a PR so we can discuss about it! This will probably be in this file: https://github.com/SpikeInterface/spikeinterface/blob/main/src/spikeinterface/extractors/neoextractors/spikeglx.py

Do you have time to give it a try?

alejoe91 avatar Mar 13 '25 16:03 alejoe91

I can give it a go this weekend. If that doesn't pan out, I'll have some time mid-next month (after a conference deadline)

guptadivyansh avatar Mar 13 '25 16:03 guptadivyansh