Supported Data Formats

The following data types can be linked in an experiment. See Creating Your First Experiment for instructions on loading these data into Bento.

Calcium imaging data

• CNMF-E output
• Any mat file containing a single matrix (any variable name)-- Bento will assume that matrix is arranged as neurons x time

Video files

• .seq format (requires Piotr's Toolbox).
• Any video type supported by Matlab's VideoReader (mp4, wav, avi...)

Multiple movies per trial supported. Examples:

• movie_1.avi;movie_2.avi stacks movies vertically
• movie_1.avi;;movie_2.avi displays movies side-by-side

Behavior annotations

• Bento .annot files
• Caltech behavior annotator (part of Piotr's Toolbox)
• Ethovision .txt files

Multiple annotations per trial supported, files need not be in the same format. Example: file_1.annot;file_2.annot;file_3.txt

Audio data

• Linked .wav files will be converted to spectrograms (this sometimes takes a while) and displayed. The generated spectrograms will be saved to a .mat file in the same directory as the audio file, and re-loaded automatically on future use.

Tracking data

• Pose and Feature files from MARS (the Anderson/Perona lab mouse tracker, in prep). Link Feature files to be able to filter video frames by pose features.
• DeepLabCut support coming soon.