merge with main

.github/actions/build-test-environment/action.yml

@@ -1,41 +1,20 @@
 name: Install packages
 description: This action installs the package and its dependencies for testing
 
-inputs:
-  python-version:
-    description: 'Python version to set up'
-    required: false
-  os:
-    description: 'Operating system to set up'
-    required: false
-
 runs:
   using: "composite"
   steps:
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
-        sudo apt install git
         git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
         git config --global user.name "CI Almighty"
-        python -m venv ${{ github.workspace }}/test_env # Environment used in the caching step
-        python -m pip install -U pip  # Official recommended way
-        source ${{ github.workspace }}/test_env/bin/activate
         pip install tabulate  # This produces summaries at the end
         pip install -e .[test,extractors,streaming_extractors,test_extractors,full]
       shell: bash
-    - name: Force installation of latest dev from key-packages when running dev (not release)
-      run: |
-        source ${{ github.workspace }}/test_env/bin/activate
-        spikeinterface_is_dev_version=$(python -c "import spikeinterface; print(spikeinterface.DEV_MODE)")
-        if [ $spikeinterface_is_dev_version = "True" ]; then
-          echo "Running spikeinterface dev version"
-          pip install --no-cache-dir git+https://github.com/NeuralEnsemble/python-neo
-          pip install --no-cache-dir git+https://github.com/SpikeInterface/probeinterface
-        fi
-          echo "Running tests for release, using pyproject.toml versions of neo and probeinterface"
+    - name: Install git-annex
       shell: bash
-    - name: git-annex install
       run: |
+        pip install datalad-installer
         wget https://downloads.kitenet.net/git-annex/linux/current/git-annex-standalone-amd64.tar.gz
         mkdir /home/runner/work/installation
         mv git-annex-standalone-amd64.tar.gz /home/runner/work/installation/
@@ -44,4 +23,14 @@ runs:
         tar xvzf git-annex-standalone-amd64.tar.gz
         echo "$(pwd)/git-annex.linux" >> $GITHUB_PATH
         cd $workdir
+        git config --global filter.annex.process "git-annex filter-process"  # recommended for efficiency
+    - name: Force installation of latest dev from key-packages when running dev (not release)
+      run: |
+        spikeinterface_is_dev_version=$(python -c "import spikeinterface; print(spikeinterface.DEV_MODE)")
+        if [ $spikeinterface_is_dev_version = "True" ]; then
+          echo "Running spikeinterface dev version"
+          pip install --no-cache-dir git+https://github.com/NeuralEnsemble/python-neo
+          pip install --no-cache-dir git+https://github.com/SpikeInterface/probeinterface
+        fi
+          echo "Running tests for release, using pyproject.toml versions of neo and probeinterface"
       shell: bash

.github/workflows/all-tests.yml

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ jobs:
             echo "$file was changed"
           done
 
-      - name: Set testing environment  # This decides which tests are run and whether to install especial dependencies
+      - name: Set testing environment  # This decides which tests are run and whether to install special dependencies
         shell: bash
         run: |
           changed_files="${{ steps.changed-files.outputs.all_changed_files }}"

.github/workflows/full-test-with-codecov.yml

@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ jobs:
         env:
           HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH: ${{ github.workspace }}/hdf5_plugin_path_maxwell
         run: |
-          source ${{ github.workspace }}/test_env/bin/activate
           pytest -m "not sorters_external" --cov=./ --cov-report xml:./coverage.xml -vv -ra --durations=0 | tee report_full.txt; test ${PIPESTATUS[0]} -eq 0 || exit 1
           echo "# Timing profile of full tests" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
           python ./.github/scripts/build_job_summary.py report_full.txt >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY

doc/get_started/quickstart.rst

@@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ compute quality metrics (some quality metrics require certain extensions
                               'min_spikes': 0,
                               'window_size_s': 1},
      'snr': {'peak_mode': 'extremum', 'peak_sign': 'neg'},
-     'synchrony': {'synchrony_sizes': (2, 4, 8)}}
+     'synchrony': {}
 
 
 Since the recording is very short, let’s change some parameters to

doc/modules/qualitymetrics/synchrony.rst

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ trains. This way synchronous events can be found both in multi-unit and single-u
 Complexity is calculated by counting the number of spikes (i.e. non-empty bins) that occur at the same sample index,
 within and across spike trains.
 
-Synchrony metrics can be computed for different synchrony sizes (>1), defining the number of simultaneous spikes to count.
+Synchrony metrics are computed for 2, 4 and 8 synchronous spikes.
 
 
 
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Example code
 
     import spikeinterface.qualitymetrics as sqm
     # Combine a sorting and recording into a sorting_analyzer
-    synchrony = sqm.compute_synchrony_metrics(sorting_analyzer=sorting_analyzer synchrony_sizes=(2, 4, 8))
+    synchrony = sqm.compute_synchrony_metrics(sorting_analyzer=sorting_analyzer)
     # synchrony is a tuple of dicts with the synchrony metrics for each unit
 
 

pyproject.toml

@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ extractors = [
 ]
 
 streaming_extractors = [
-    "ONE-api>=2.7.0", # alf sorter and streaming IBL
+    "ONE-api>=2.7.0,<2.10.0", # alf sorter and streaming IBL
     "ibllib>=2.36.0", # streaming IBL
     # Following dependencies are for streaming with nwb files
     "pynwb>=2.6.0",

src/spikeinterface/core/baserecording.py

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
+
 import warnings
 from pathlib import Path
 
@@ -7,14 +8,9 @@
 
 from .base import BaseSegment
 from .baserecordingsnippets import BaseRecordingSnippets
-from .core_tools import (
-    convert_bytes_to_str,
-    convert_seconds_to_str,
-)
-from .recording_tools import write_binary_recording
-
-
+from .core_tools import convert_bytes_to_str, convert_seconds_to_str
 from .job_tools import split_job_kwargs
+from .recording_tools import write_binary_recording
 
 
 class BaseRecording(BaseRecordingSnippets):
@@ -950,11 +946,11 @@ def time_to_sample_index(self, time_s):
                 sample_index = time_s * self.sampling_frequency
             else:
                 sample_index = (time_s - self.t_start) * self.sampling_frequency
-            sample_index = round(sample_index)
+            sample_index = np.round(sample_index).astype(int)
         else:
             sample_index = np.searchsorted(self.time_vector, time_s, side="right") - 1
 
-        return int(sample_index)
+        return sample_index
 
     def get_num_samples(self) -> int:
         """Returns the number of samples in this signal segment

src/spikeinterface/extractors/nwbextractors.py

@@ -599,6 +599,8 @@ def __init__(
         else:
             gains, offsets, locations, groups = self._fetch_main_properties_backend()
             self.extra_requirements.append("h5py")
+        if stream_mode is not None:
+            self.extra_requirements.append(stream_mode)
         self.set_channel_gains(gains)
         self.set_channel_offsets(offsets)
         if locations is not None:
@@ -1100,6 +1102,8 @@ def __init__(
             for property_name, property_values in properties.items():
                 values = [x.decode("utf-8") if isinstance(x, bytes) else x for x in property_values]
                 self.set_property(property_name, values)
+        if stream_mode is not None:
+            self.extra_requirements.append(stream_mode)
 
         if stream_mode is None and file_path is not None:
             file_path = str(Path(file_path).resolve())

src/spikeinterface/postprocessing/template_metrics.py

@@ -63,23 +63,10 @@ class ComputeTemplateMetrics(AnalyzerExtension):
     include_multi_channel_metrics : bool, default: False
         Whether to compute multi-channel metrics
     delete_existing_metrics : bool, default: False
-        If True, any template metrics attached to the `sorting_analyzer` are deleted. If False, any metrics which were previously calculated but are not included in `metric_names` are kept, provided the `metrics_kwargs` are unchanged.
-    metrics_kwargs : dict
-        Additional arguments to pass to the metric functions. Including:
-            * recovery_window_ms: the window in ms after the peak to compute the recovery_slope, default: 0.7
-            * peak_relative_threshold: the relative threshold to detect positive and negative peaks, default: 0.2
-            * peak_width_ms: the width in samples to detect peaks, default: 0.2
-            * depth_direction: the direction to compute velocity above and below, default: "y" (see notes)
-            * min_channels_for_velocity: the minimum number of channels above or below to compute velocity, default: 5
-            * min_r2_velocity: the minimum r2 to accept the velocity fit, default: 0.7
-            * exp_peak_function: the function to use to compute the peak amplitude for the exp decay, default: "ptp"
-            * min_r2_exp_decay: the minimum r2 to accept the exp decay fit, default: 0.5
-            * spread_threshold: the threshold to compute the spread, default: 0.2
-            * spread_smooth_um: the smoothing in um to compute the spread, default: 20
-            * column_range: the range in um in the horizontal direction to consider channels for velocity, default: None
-                - If None, all channels all channels are considered
-                - If 0 or 1, only the "column" that includes the max channel is considered
-                - If > 1, only channels within range (+/-) um from the max channel horizontal position are used
+        If True, any template metrics attached to the `sorting_analyzer` are deleted. If False, any metrics which were previously calculated but are not included in `metric_names` are kept, provided the `metric_params` are unchanged.
+    metric_params : dict of dicts or None, default: None
+        Dictionary with parameters for template metrics calculation.
+        Default parameters can be obtained with: `si.postprocessing.template_metrics.get_default_tm_params()`
 
     Returns
     -------
@@ -100,15 +87,29 @@ class ComputeTemplateMetrics(AnalyzerExtension):
     need_recording = False
     use_nodepipeline = False
     need_job_kwargs = False
+    need_backward_compatibility_on_load = True
 
     min_channels_for_multi_channel_warning = 10
 
+    def _handle_backward_compatibility_on_load(self):
+
+        # For backwards compatibility - this reformats metrics_kwargs as metric_params
+        if (metrics_kwargs := self.params.get("metrics_kwargs")) is not None:
+
+            metric_params = {}
+            for metric_name in self.params["metric_names"]:
+                metric_params[metric_name] = deepcopy(metrics_kwargs)
+            self.params["metric_params"] = metric_params
+
+            del self.params["metrics_kwargs"]
+
     def _set_params(
         self,
         metric_names=None,
         peak_sign="neg",
         upsampling_factor=10,
         sparsity=None,
+        metric_params=None,
         metrics_kwargs=None,
         include_multi_channel_metrics=False,
         delete_existing_metrics=False,
@@ -134,33 +135,24 @@ def _set_params(
         if include_multi_channel_metrics:
             metric_names += get_multi_channel_template_metric_names()
 
-        if metrics_kwargs is None:
-            metrics_kwargs_ = _default_function_kwargs.copy()
-            if len(other_kwargs) > 0:
-                for m in other_kwargs:
-                    if m in metrics_kwargs_:
-                        metrics_kwargs_[m] = other_kwargs[m]
-        else:
-            metrics_kwargs_ = _default_function_kwargs.copy()
-            metrics_kwargs_.update(metrics_kwargs)
+        if metrics_kwargs is not None and metric_params is None:
+            deprecation_msg = "`metrics_kwargs` is deprecated and will be removed in version 0.104.0. Please use `metric_params` instead"
+            deprecation_msg = "`metrics_kwargs` is deprecated and will be removed in version 0.104.0. Please use `metric_params` instead"
+
+            metric_params = {}
+            for metric_name in metric_names:
+                metric_params[metric_name] = deepcopy(metrics_kwargs)
+
+        metric_params_ = get_default_tm_params(metric_names)
+        for k in metric_params_:
+            if metric_params is not None and k in metric_params:
+                metric_params_[k].update(metric_params[k])
 
         metrics_to_compute = metric_names
         tm_extension = self.sorting_analyzer.get_extension("template_metrics")
         if delete_existing_metrics is False and tm_extension is not None:
 
-            existing_params = tm_extension.params["metrics_kwargs"]
-            # checks that existing metrics were calculated using the same params
-            if existing_params != metrics_kwargs_:
-                warnings.warn(
-                    f"The parameters used to calculate the previous template metrics are different"
-                    f"than those used now.\nPrevious parameters: {existing_params}\nCurrent "
-                    f"parameters:  {metrics_kwargs_}\nDeleting previous template metrics..."
-                )
-                tm_extension.params["metric_names"] = []
-                existing_metric_names = []
-            else:
-                existing_metric_names = tm_extension.params["metric_names"]
-
+            existing_metric_names = tm_extension.params["metric_names"]
             existing_metric_names_propogated = [
                 metric_name for metric_name in existing_metric_names if metric_name not in metrics_to_compute
             ]
@@ -171,7 +163,7 @@ def _set_params(
             sparsity=sparsity,
             peak_sign=peak_sign,
             upsampling_factor=int(upsampling_factor),
-            metrics_kwargs=metrics_kwargs_,
+            metric_params=metric_params_,
             delete_existing_metrics=delete_existing_metrics,
             metrics_to_compute=metrics_to_compute,
         )
@@ -273,7 +265,7 @@ def _compute_metrics(self, sorting_analyzer, unit_ids=None, verbose=False, metri
                             sampling_frequency=sampling_frequency_up,
                             trough_idx=trough_idx,
                             peak_idx=peak_idx,
-                            **self.params["metrics_kwargs"],
+                            **self.params["metric_params"][metric_name],
                         )
                     except Exception as e:
                         warnings.warn(f"Error computing metric {metric_name} for unit {unit_id}: {e}")
@@ -312,7 +304,7 @@ def _compute_metrics(self, sorting_analyzer, unit_ids=None, verbose=False, metri
                         template_upsampled,
                         channel_locations=channel_locations_sparse,
                         sampling_frequency=sampling_frequency_up,
-                        **self.params["metrics_kwargs"],
+                        **self.params["metric_params"][metric_name],
                     )
                 except Exception as e:
                     warnings.warn(f"Error computing metric {metric_name} for unit {unit_id}: {e}")
@@ -326,8 +318,8 @@ def _compute_metrics(self, sorting_analyzer, unit_ids=None, verbose=False, metri
 
     def _run(self, verbose=False):
 
-        delete_existing_metrics = self.params["delete_existing_metrics"]
         metrics_to_compute = self.params["metrics_to_compute"]
+        delete_existing_metrics = self.params["delete_existing_metrics"]
 
         # compute the metrics which have been specified by the user
         computed_metrics = self._compute_metrics(
@@ -343,9 +335,21 @@ def _run(self, verbose=False):
         ):
             existing_metrics = tm_extension.params["metric_names"]
 
+        existing_metrics = []
+        # here we get in the loaded via the dict only (to avoid full loading from disk after params reset)
+        tm_extension = self.sorting_analyzer.extensions.get("template_metrics", None)
+        if (
+            delete_existing_metrics is False
+            and tm_extension is not None
+            and tm_extension.data.get("metrics") is not None
+        ):
+            existing_metrics = tm_extension.params["metric_names"]
+
         # append the metrics which were previously computed
         for metric_name in set(existing_metrics).difference(metrics_to_compute):
-            computed_metrics[metric_name] = tm_extension.data["metrics"][metric_name]
+            # some metrics names produce data columns with other names. This deals with that.
+            for column_name in tm_compute_name_to_column_names[metric_name]:
+                computed_metrics[column_name] = tm_extension.data["metrics"][column_name]
 
         self.data["metrics"] = computed_metrics
 
@@ -372,6 +376,35 @@ def _get_data(self):
 )
 
 
+def get_default_tm_params(metric_names):
+    if metric_names is None:
+        metric_names = get_template_metric_names()
+
+    base_tm_params = _default_function_kwargs
+
+    metric_params = {}
+    for metric_name in metric_names:
+        metric_params[metric_name] = deepcopy(base_tm_params)
+
+    return metric_params
+
+
+# a dict converting the name of the metric for computation to the output of that computation
+tm_compute_name_to_column_names = {
+    "peak_to_valley": ["peak_to_valley"],
+    "peak_trough_ratio": ["peak_trough_ratio"],
+    "half_width": ["half_width"],
+    "repolarization_slope": ["repolarization_slope"],
+    "recovery_slope": ["recovery_slope"],
+    "num_positive_peaks": ["num_positive_peaks"],
+    "num_negative_peaks": ["num_negative_peaks"],
+    "velocity_above": ["velocity_above"],
+    "velocity_below": ["velocity_below"],
+    "exp_decay": ["exp_decay"],
+    "spread": ["spread"],
+}
+
+
 def get_trough_and_peak_idx(template):
     """
     Return the indices into the input template of the detected trough