Signal2 format import

[Gijs van Elswijk]

Hi Vladimir and Robert,
 
The "read_ced_son" code has not been tested with non-continuous Spike2 files. However, recently a colleague of mine has used the Fieldtrip routines to read his non-continuous Spike2 data. It seems to work fine. I have not tested any Signal data files (which are always non-continuous as far as I know). I believe Signal also uses the "CED SON filing system", which means that those files should be readable with the current FT routines. 
 
I was planning to add a few small updates to the current code at some point. If necessary, I could combine it with testing/implementing the support for non-continuous Signal/Spike data.
 
Gijs
 

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: FieldTrip discussion list on behalf of Vladimir Litvak 
	Sent: Wed 10/4/2006 8:21 PM 
	To: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL 
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	Subject: Re: [FIELDTRIP] Signal2 format import
	
	

	Thanks a lot. It works perfectly (at least from the first glance).
	
	Best,
	
	Vladimir
	
	-----Original Message-----
	From: FieldTrip discussion list [mailto:FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL] On Behalf
	Of Robert Oostenveld
	Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 5:20 PM
	To: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL
	Subject: Re: [FIELDTRIP] Signal2 format import
	
	Hi Vladimir,
	
	On 4 Oct 2006, at 15:15, Vladimir Litvak wrote:
	> I am starting a new project and I'd like to import to FT data in 
	> Signal
	> (a.k.a. Spike2) format (files with extension *.ced). There is a Matlab
	> library that can read the files but I wonder whether anybody has 
	> implemented
	> the conversion all the way to FT or at least close to it. Maybe 
	> Biosig can
	> read it (I haven't tried yet)? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
	
	Gijs van Elswijk contributed code to FT for reading continuous 
	channels (are required to all have the same sampling rate) from a 
	system manufactured by "Cambridge Electronic Design" (CED), and the 
	documentation that I got specifies that the files are from the 
	'Spike2 SON filing system'. In the FT private/filetype function, 
	those are referred to as being type 'ced_son'.
	
	However, those files are assumed to have the extension *.smr. I am 
	not sure whether those are the same files, but it sounds like it 
	could be related.
	
	Gijs' code is basically the private/read_ced_son.m file, which uses 
	the Neuroshare library (see http://neuroshare.sourceforge.net). There 
	are matlab bindings to the Neuroshare library, i.e. system specific 
	mex files that you have to add to your Matlab path.
	
	I hope this helps. If not, then I also know another library for 
	reading SON2 files. But then, I am not yet sure whether that really 
	corresponds to the dataformat that you now have.
	
	Robert