Inspect NWB files for compliance with NWB Best Practices.
This inspector is meant as a companion to the PyNWB validator, which checks for strict schema compliance. This tool attempts to apply some common sense to find components of the file that are technically compliant, but possibly incorrect, suboptimal in their representation, or deviate from best practices.
This tool is meant simply as a data review aid. It does not catch all possible violations of best practices and any warnings it does produce should be checked by a knowledgeable reviewer.
pip install nwbinspector
# supply a path to an NWB file
nwbinspector path/to/my/data.nwb
# supply a path to a directory containing NWB files
nwbinspector path/to/my/data/folder/
Read about more detailed usage in the main documentation.
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Tool to inspect NWB files for best practices compliance.
We found that nwbinspector demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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