Oxford

Overview

Format was used at the Laboratory of Neuropharmacology, University of Oxford (Dr. Somogyi).

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Format specification:

Encoding: ASCII text
Limitations: Binary only. Point soma.

Line 1:   number of neuron segments

Remaining lines each represent a small segment of neuron. Each line consists of five comma-separated elements, with basic form

    XXXXXXXX,YYYYYYYY,ZZZZZZZZ,TTT,DDDD

In more detail:

data type	x-position (mm)	y-position (mm)	z-position (mm)	type	diameter (mm)
data value	Each of the co-ordinates occupies 8 character exactly (including '-' sign, decimal point '.',  and leading zeroes where necessary)			Occupies 3 characters exactly. 003 - start 004 - continuous point 005 - fibre swelling 006 - spine base 007 - binary branch 008 - terminal	Occupies 4 characters exactly (including decimal point '.', and leading zeros where neessary)

References

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Links

See the Nodus software user manual for a description of this format -    http://www.tnb.ua.ac.be/software/nodus/files/NodusManual.pdf


Examples

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