Handles probe layout, geometry, and wiring to device
Description
A Python package to handle the layout, geometry, and wiring of silicon probes
for extracellular electrophysiology experiments.
Goals
Make a lightweight package to handle:
• probe contact geometry (both 2D and 3D layouts)
• probe shape (contour of the probe, shape of channel contact, …)
• probe wiring to device (the physical layout often doesn’t match the channel
ordering)
• combining several probes into a device with global geometry + global wiring
• exporting probe geometry data into JSON files
• loading existing probe geometry files (Neuronexus, imec, Cambridge
Neurotech…) Started here
Bonus:
• optional plotting (based on matplotlib)
• load/save geometry using common formats (PRB, CSV, NWB, …)
• handle SI length units correctly um/mm/…
Target users/project:
• spikeinterface team: integrate this into spikeextractor for channel
location
• neo team: handle array_annotations for AnalogSignal
• spikeforest team: use this package for plotting probe activity
• phy team: integrate for probe display
• spyking-circus team: handle probe with this package
• kilosort team: handle probe with this package
• tridesclous team: handle probe with this package
• open ephys team: automatically generate channel map configuration files
