Input Files

Wave_clus can read MATLAB files (extension .mat) with continuous data or spikes for clustering spike shapes that have already been detected (e.g. detected on-line by the acquisition system). It should have either a vector named data (the continuous signal) or a matrix named spikes (nr. of spikes x length of the spike shape) plus a vector index with the spike times (in ms). If the variable sr is inside the file, it will set the sampling rate. Otherwise par.sr inside the file set_parameters will be use.

All the supported formats (.mat, .int, intan_RHD2000, .NSx, .pl2, dat, .tdt, .h5 and .ncs) use the codes in the folder Raw_data_readers to get the data from the files. If the extension of the file doesn't have a Raw_data_readers/X_wc_reader, is required to run the codes in the folder tools before. All these files can be used as single channels for a tetrode, see Polytrodes.