aresjung / opeth

Online Peri-Event Time Histogram for open ephys

OPETH

Online Peri-Event Time Histogram for Open Ephys.

Performs spike detection based on raw Open Ephys data exported via ZeroMQ. Requires triggers from Open Ephys for histogram display as spikes are detected around them.

Usage

• Needs ZMQInterface plugin. For Windows a precompiled dll is present.
• Set up Open Ephys with ZMQInterface plugin. Plugin is recommended to be after bandpass filter and/or common average reference filter, but spike detector is not required.
• Start opeth/gui.py.

Setting up python environment (auto)

Using conda/miniconda, create a new environment issuing the command

conda create --name opeth --file requirements.txt python

in the root dir of opeth, which will install all necessary prerequisites.

List/activate the new environment with the commands

conda env list
conda activate opeth

and once activated you may start OPETH with

python opeth/gui.py

Setting up python environment (manually)

Required non-default packages: pyzmq, pyqtgraph