ahnan4arch/libdataio

A C library for I/O of some neurophysiology and auditory behavior file formats

libdataio

dataio is a C library for I/O of Margoliash Lab data acquisition file format

What is it?

Dataio is a library that presents a common interface for reading and writing various types of data commonly encountered in a neuronal/acoustic data acquisition setting. Three types of data are specifically handled:

• PCM : pulse coded modulation, i.e. raw waveforms from an analog-digital converter
• LBL : events, such as the times at which stimuli are presented, or a manually or automatically generated parsing of the temporal sequence of animal/etc behaviors. For vocalizations, this can record the identity and onset/offset of specific syllables, etc.
• TOE : time-of-event For storing the times of occurence of neuronal action potentials

This library is used by several Margliash lab programs:

• saber - data acquisition
• aplot - offline data visualization/analysis/figure generation
• pcmx - pcm data conversion, processing, manipulation, playing, etc.
• pcmstat - simple statistics
• toex - time of event data conversion, processing, etc.
• toestat - simple statistics
• aquery - flat-file database query

Author, Copyright, and Disclaimer

dataio is Copyright (c) 2001 by Amish S Dave ([email protected]). It is no longer actively maintained by Amish. This version was patched by Mike Lusignan and Dan Meliza to compile on more modern POSIX distributions and for rudimentary support of HDF5 files in ARF format (https://github.com/melizalab/arf)

This code is distributed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (GPL) Version 2 (June 1991). See the "COPYING" file distributed with this software for more info.

Requirements

dataio requires libjpeg, HDF5 version 8 or later, and uses scons for compilation. To install on debian,

apt-get install hdf5-dev scons

Installation

To compile and install:

scons
scons install