Parsing your data

Data Curator is a Matlab based GUI developed for parsing, pre-processing and visualizing the raw data. The acquisition system stores the raw data in the HDF5 format. Data Curator facilitates parsing of the HDF5 attributes and saves it as aCellDatamat file. TheCellDatafile is required by the Data Curator and Analysis user interface for further processing of the data.

a) To open the curator user interface, runopenCuratorfrom the Matlab command line.

Before continuing, let us review the directory structure required for the analysis toolbox. Assuming ~ is your home directory, the HDF5 files have to be copied inside ~/data/rawDataFolder and the directory storing the results of the data analysis will be inside ~/data/analysis with the following subdirectories,

b) As a next step, copy the HDF5 file to be parsed inside ~/data/rawDataFolder , then click on the ... button in the curator interface and select the HDF5 file to be parsed.

c) After clicking Open, the HDF5 data is parsed and the curator window is updated as below,

Let us explore the data curator features further.