The purpose of this document is to specify the basic data types required for storing electrophysiology and optical imaging data to facilitate computer-based neuroscience studies and data sharing. These requirements are being developed within a working group of the Electrophysiology Task Force in the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) Program on Standards for Data Sharing. While this document describes the requirements of the standard independent of the actual storage technology, the Task Force has recommended basing a standard on HDF5. This is in line with a number of groups who are already using HDF5 to store electrophysiology data, although currently without being based on a standard.
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@article{arxiv.1605.07673,
title = {Requirements for storing electrophysiology data},
author = {Jeff Teeters and Jan Benda and Andrew Davison and Stephen Eglen and Richard C. Gerkin and Jeffrey Grethe and Jan Grewe and Kenneth Harris and Christian Kellner and Yann Le Franc and Roman Mouček and Dimiter Prodanov and Robert Pröpper and Hyrum L. Sessions and Leslie Smith and Andrey Sobolev and Friedrich Sommer and Adrian Stoewer and Thomas Wachtler and Barry Wark},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.07673},
year = {2016}
}