Re: hc-14: problems with a documentation
There is a problem in a documentation of this dataset. I cannot find an accurate information about a brain area of each shank.
I can see a file named "MapsSessions.pdf" in a
dataset. There are schemes for each animal in this file. I
understood that rows are days (experimental sessions) and columns
are the electrode shanks. But some shanks are missing! For example,
for "Rat 08" animal, shanks 1,2,3 and 4 are missing. For
"Rat 09", shanks 17,18.19,20 are missing. And also I cannot
find shanks that were in a hippocampus. I can see only a
basolateral amygdala (BLA), a basomedial amygdala (BMA),
dorsolateral amygdaloid nucleus (LaDL), a ventral part of
basolateral amygdala (BLV), a posterior part of basolateral
amygdala(BMP), a posterolateral cortical amygdala (PLCo1) a piriform
cortex (Pir), a ventral endopiriform nucleus (VEn), a dorsal
endopiriform nucleus (DEn), a caudate putamen (CPu), and two regions
that I cannot find in a brain atlas (GP and CeN). But the
hippocampus is missing!
Then I tried to look at files in "Rat*-Info.tar.gz" archives. But
for each animal they have a different structure!
For example, for "Rat08" there is a gile named
"StructureMapping.ods", and there are a lot of sheets for each
recording day. At each sheet I can see the following information:
shanks 1-4 are in the hippocampus, shanks 5-12 are from the left
amygdala, and shanks 13-20 are from the right amygdala. Such a
situation is for any day of Rat08. But this information is in
contrary to "MapsSessions.pdf" file! For example, for "20130722"
session shanks 5-8 according to "MapsSessions.pdf" are in the
piriform cortex, and in the left amygdala according to
"StructureMapping.ods".
For "Rat09" there is a completely different file named
"HistoSheet.ods" with only one worksheet containing a scheme like a
scheme from "MapsSessions.pdf". But there is the same problem -
a hippocampus is missing and not all shanks are presented.
And there is another shank numbering system and it does not comply
with a numbering system in data files.