RAVE:DirectoryStructure

Reproducible Analysis and Visualization of iEEG RAVE

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RAVE Directory and File Structure RAVE uses a directory hierarchy to organize data. The top level of the hierarchy contains three directories. By default, they are named "raw_dir", "data_dir" and "other". These names and the locations of these directories can be changed using the rave::rave_options() command. Raw data is placed into raw_dir by the user, then RAVE pre-processes the data and places it into data_dir. The "other" directory contains cortical surface models for visualizing the analyzed data and other ancillary files. The directory hierarchy has a specified structure. In iEEG studies, one subject may participate in many different experiments. For instance, the same subject could be asked to perform a working memory task and a language task. These files are collected close in time but must be analyzed differently. RAVE sorts raw data by subject (as data is collected participant by participant) but processed data is sorted by project/experiment, since analysis and manuscript preparation is typically performed on one experiment at a time, across participants. The raw data directory structure is the following (where XXX is the base of the data storage directory tree): XXX/raw_dir/subject_code/block_label Where subject_code refers to the individual subject and block_number is a single data acquisition session. In the above example, XXX/raw_dir/subject_AAA/workingmemoryrun1 XXX/raw_dir/subject_AAA/workingmemoryrun2 XXX/raw_dir/subject_AAA/workingmemoryrun3 Would contain data from three repetitions of a working memory task and XXX/raw_dir/subject_AAA/languagerun1 XXX/raw_dir/subject_AAA/languagerun2 XXX/raw_dir/subject_AAA/languagerun3 Would contain data from three repetitions of a language task for the same participant. Each of these directories should contain one .mat file per channel subject_codeDatafileblock_label_chX.mat where X is the electrode number. e.g. subject_AAADatafileworkingmemoryrun1_ch17.mat Within this file is a one row matrix named analogTraces with the voltage values over time. After preprocessing, data is placed into a new directory organized by project (experiment) followed by subject_code. In the example, it could be: XXX/data_dir/working_memory_task/subject_AAA XXX/data_dir/language_task/subject_AAA Return to Other Notes.