Questions of data from custom electrodes

[dcgggg]

Describe the issue:

Hello,

    I would like to ask how to import the data collected by non-INTAN microfilament array electrodes into kilosort4. I am stuck in the first step of converting to binary.
    Thank you.

[jacobpennington]

Hello @dcgggg,

I don't know what format your data is in, so it's hard to give any advice. It needs to end up as a binary file (typically .bin, .bat, .dat or .raw) stored with shape (time_samples, number of channels). Kilosort's data conversion tools are just a thin (and incomplete) wrappers for SpikeInterface functions, so I would start by checking the list of "Raw Data Formats" supported by that package: https://spikeinterface.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules/extractors.html

If you see your data format on that list, let me know, and I can add it to the list supported in our GUI, or you can use SpikeInterface directly to convert your data.