v0.6.0 (August 27, 2024)

Deprecations

• Deprecated WaveformExtractor usage. PR #821
• Changed the spikeinterface.tool functions (e.g. add_recording, add_sorting) to have _to_nwbfile as suffix PR #1015
• Deprecated use of compression and compression_options in VideoInterface PR #1005
• get_schema_from_method_signature has been deprecated; please use get_json_schema_from_method_signature instead. PR #1016
• neuroconv.utils.FilePathType and neuroconv.utils.FolderPathType have been deprecated; please use pydantic.FilePath and pydantic.DirectoryPath instead. PR #1017
• Changed the roiextractors.tool function (e.g. add_imaging and add_segmentation) to have the _to_nwbfile suffix [PR #1027]PR #1017

Features

• Added MedPCInterface for operant behavioral output files. PR #883
• Support SortingAnalyzer in the SpikeGLXConverterPipe. PR #821
• Added TDTFiberPhotometryInterface data interface, for converting fiber photometry data from TDT file formats. PR #920
• Add argument to add_electrodes that grants fine control of what to do with the missing values. As a side effect this drops the implicit casting to int when writing int properties to the electrodes table PR #985
• Add Plexon2 support PR #918
• Converter working with multiple VideoInterface instances PR #914
• Added helper function neuroconv.tools.data_transfers.submit_aws_batch_job for basic automated submission of AWS batch jobs. PR #384
• Data interfaces run_conversion method now performs metadata validation before running the conversion. PR #949
• Introduced null_values_for_properties to add_units_table to give user control over null values behavior PR #989

Bug fixes

• Fixed the default naming of multiple electrical series in the SpikeGLXConverterPipe. PR #957
• Write new properties to the electrode table use the global identifier channel_name, group PR #984
• Removed a bug where int64 was casted lossy to float PR #989

Improvements

• The OpenEphysBinaryRecordingInterface now uses lxml for extracting the session start time from the settings.xml file and does not depend on pyopenephys anymore. PR #971
• Swap the majority of package setup and build steps to pyproject.toml instead of setup.py. PR #955
• The DeeplabcutInterface now skips inferring timestamps from movie when timestamps are specified, running faster. PR #967
• Improve metadata writing for SpikeGLX data interface. Added contact ids, shank ids and, remove references to shanks for neuropixels 1.0. Also deprecated the previous neuroconv exclusive property "electrode_shank_number` PR #986
• Add tqdm with warning to DeepLabCut interface PR #1006
• BaseRecordingInterface now calls default metadata when metadata is not passing mimicking run_conversion behavior. PR #1012
• Added get_json_schema_from_method_signature which constructs Pydantic models automatically from the signature of any function with typical annotation types used throughout NeuroConv. PR #1016
• Replaced all interface annotations with Pydantic types. PR #1017
• Changed typehint collections (e.g. List) to standard collections (e.g. list). PR #1021
• Testing now is only one dataset per test PR #1026