FED3 data analysis and sorting GUI

[zane andrews]

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to share this code that Harry Dempsey (harry....@monash.edu) from my lab has written to help us analyse, sort and group data. It makes it so much easier to go from individual csv files to a single excel master sheet that includes all your data. It doesnt graph though. We still wanted the flexibility of using a program like prism to customise graphs.

Here is the new FED3 time bin repository.

https://github.com/Andrews-Lab/FED3_time_bins

Everything can be found in the github repository. There are detailed instructions how to load and use the the GUI at github but I have attached the pdf instructions as a teaser.

The main thing we found was analysis was still taking lots of time, especially when sorting csv files into different variables for different experimental groups, often with different treatments. So we build this into the GUI. We also created an option to use initiation poke for the code to use as starting point for time binning. This way, the user makes the first poke and then puts FED3 into cage and the code goes from there. It accounts for slight variation in time and and time taken to set experiments up. 

I would like to know if people find it useful and get some feedback. It took us about 18months to get sick of doing this data analysis/sorting manually 😂 and to start developing our python analysis and its slowly evolved to this very useful GUI that i think (hope) might be useful to others. We are happy to share with this great FED3 community. If you use in a manuscript it would be great if you could acknowledge Harry Dempsey (and a big thanks to Harry for me!) for creating this and include link to github.

If you find any bugs/issues, let me know and we'll update.

Cheers

Zane