Adding Trials to NWB Files

NWB allows you to store information about timing information in a structured way. These structures are often used to store information about trials, epochs, or other time intervals in the data. Here is how to add trials to an NWBFile object:

# you can add custom columns to the trials table
nwbfile.add_trials_column(name="trial_type", description="the type of trial")

nwbfile.add_trial(start_time=0.0, stop_time=1.0, trial_type="go")
nwbfile.add_trial(start_time=1.0, stop_time=2.0, trial_type="nogo")

You can also add epochs or other types of time intervals to an NWB File. See PyNWB Annotating Time Intervals for more information.

Once this information is added, you can write the NWB file to disk:

from neuroconv.tools.nwb_helpers import configure_and_write_nwbfile

configure_and_write_nwbfile(
    nwbfile, save_path="path/to/destination.nwb", backend="hdf5"
)

This will write the NWB file to disk with the added trials information, and optimize the storage settings of large datasets for cloud compute.