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function format_sessDataStructures(sessionNumber)
parentDir = '/home/kouroshmaboudi/Documents/NCMLproject';
addpath(genpath(fullfile(parentDir, '/ReplayPreplayAnalyses')))
datasetDir = fullfile(parentDir, '/Bapun_NSD_datasets');
stateDetectionResultsDir = fullfile(parentDir, 'StateDetectionResults');
outputDir = fullfile(parentDir, 'assemblyTuning_finalResults');
if ~exist(outputDir, 'dir'); mkdir(outputDir); end
sessionNames = {'RatN_Day2_2019-10-11_03-58-54'; ...
'RatS-Day2-2020-11-27_10-22-29'; ...
'RatU_Day2NSD_2021-07-24_08-16-38'; ...
'RatV_Day1NSD_2021-10-02_08-10-23'; ...
'RatV_Day3NSD_2021-10-07_08-10-12'};
% MAZE SHAPES
mazeLimits = [-inf inf -inf 128; ... % RatN
-inf inf -inf inf; ... % Rat S
-inf inf -inf inf; ... % Rat U
-inf inf -inf inf; ... % Rat V - Day1
-inf inf -inf inf]; % Rat V - Day3
% mazeShapes = {'L-shape'; 'L-shape'; 'circular'; 'linear'; 'circular'};
% CURRENT SESSION
sessionName = sessionNames{sessionNumber};
%% loading session data
baseFile = fullfile(datasetDir, sessionName, sessionName);
% load spike data
load([baseFile '.spike.mat'], 'spikes');
% load behavioral paradigm data
load([baseFile '.epochs.mat'], 'pre', 'maze', 'post', 're_maze')
% load position data
% 2D positions
s = load([baseFile '.position.mat'], 'traces', 'sampling_rate', 't_start');
positions = s.traces';
position_samplingRate = double(s.sampling_rate);
ts_Pos = double(s.t_start);
% lineared maze positions
s = load([baseFile '.maze.linear.mat'], 'traces', 't_start'); % sampling rate is the same as for 2D
linearized_MAZE = s.traces';
ts_MAZE_Pos = double(s.t_start);
% linearized remaze positions
s = load([baseFile '.remaze.linear.mat'], 'traces', 't_start');
linearized_REMAZE = s.traces';
ts_REMAZE_Pos = double(s.t_start);
% a unified linear position variable
tpnts = ts_Pos + (1:length(positions)) / position_samplingRate;
linearPos = nan(numel(tpnts), 1);
startIdx = find(tpnts > ts_MAZE_Pos, 1, 'first');
linearPos(startIdx: startIdx+length(linearized_MAZE)-1) = linearized_MAZE;
startIdx = find(tpnts > ts_REMAZE_Pos, 1, 'first');
linearPos(startIdx: startIdx+length(linearized_REMAZE)-1) = linearized_REMAZE;
storageDir = fullfile(outputDir, sessionName);
if ~exist(storageDir, 'dir'); mkdir(storageDir); end
try
behavior.time = double([pre; maze; post; re_maze]);
catch
behavior.time = double([pre; maze1; post; re_maze]);
end
% give a warning if there is a gap between the end of one epoch and start
% of the next
if behavior.time(2,1) ~= behavior.time(1,2) || behavior.time(3,1) ~= behavior.time(2,2)
warning('There are gaps between the epochs')
end
%% BRAIN STATES / THETA-NONTHETA
% We are not going to calculate the periods belonging to each brain state, as the calculated boundaries lacked enough accuracy for the purpose of PBE detection. Instead we use
% [almost instantaneous] estimations of theta/delta ratio and slow wave amplitude to estimate the state in which each population burst event occurred
% loading theta info
filename = sprintf([sessionName '.brainStateDetection_HMMtheta_EMG_SWS_SchmidtTrigger.mat']);
load(fullfile(stateDetectionResultsDir, sessionName, filename), 'timePnts', 'theratio');
brainState.thetaTimePnts = timePnts;
brainState.theratio = theratio;
% loading slow wave power/slope
filename = sprintf([sessionName '.SleepScoreMetrics.mat']);
load(fullfile(stateDetectionResultsDir, sessionName, filename), 'SleepScoreMetrics')
brainState.slowWave = SleepScoreMetrics.broadbandSlowWave;
brainState.sw_emg_timePnts = SleepScoreMetrics.t_clus;
try
load(fullfile(stateDetectionResultsDir, sessionName, sprintf([sessionName '.swthresh.mat'])), 'swthresh');
brainState.swthresh = swthresh;
catch
brainState.swthresh = SleepScoreMetrics.histsandthreshs.swthresh;
end
% loading emg
brainState.emg = SleepScoreMetrics.EMG;
try
load(fullfile(stateDetectionResultsDir, sessionName, sprintf([sessionName '.emgThresh.mat'])), 'emgThresh');
brainState.emgThresh = emgThresh;
catch
brainState.emgThresh = SleepScoreMetrics.histsandthreshs.EMGthresh;
end
% bouts with different brain states
filename = sprintf([sessionName '.brainStateDetection_HMMtheta_EMG_SWS_SchmidtTrigger.mat']);
s = load(fullfile(stateDetectionResultsDir, sessionName, filename), 'brainState');
brainState.periods = s.brainState.bouts;
brainState.names = s.brainState.names;
% bad channels to exclude for lpf event detections (e.g., ripples)
filename = sprintf([sessionName '.sessionInfo.mat']);
load(fullfile(stateDetectionResultsDir, sessionName, filename), 'sessionInfo')
if isfield(sessionInfo, 'badchannels')
badChannels = sessionInfo.badchannels;
else
badChannels = [];
end
%% SESSION'S INFORMATION
% load spikes and fileInfo
folderName = fullfile(storageDir, 'spikes');
fileName = fullfile(folderName, [sessionName '.spikes.mat']);
overwrite = 0;
if exist(fileName, 'file') && overwrite == 0
load(fileName, 'spikes', 'spikes_pyr', 'fileInfo')
else
load(fileName, 'fileInfo')
mkdir(folderName);
Par = LoadXml(baseFile); % Load the recording configurations from the xml file
fileInfo.sessionName = sessionName;
fileInfo.animal = sessionName(1:strfind(sessionName, '_')-1);
fileInfo.xyt = [];
fileInfo.linearPos = []; % linearized position and lap information
fileInfo.speed = [];
fileInfo.tbegin = behavior.time(1,1);
fileInfo.tend = behavior.time(4,2);
fileInfo.Fs = Par.SampleRate;
fileInfo.lfpSampleRate = Par.lfpSampleRate;
fileInfo.timeUnit = 1; % in sec
fileInfo.nCh = Par.nChannels;
fileInfo.badChannels = badChannels;
fileInfo.behavior = behavior;
fileInfo.brainState = brainState;
% ripples
if ~isfield(fileInfo, 'RippleChannels')
best_channels = BigRippleChannels(baseFile, fileInfo);
fileInfo.RippleChannels = best_channels; % check if there are no bad channels among the best_channels
save(fileName, 'fileInfo') % the value of fileInfo will be updated later
end
positions = positions';
y = positions(1,:)';
x = positions(2,:)';
position_samplingRate = 60; % RatV
time = (0:1/position_samplingRate:(length(positions)-1)/position_samplingRate)';
fileInfo.xyt = [x y time];
speed = calspeed(fileInfo, position_samplingRate); % animal's velocity
speed.v(speed.t < behavior.time(1,2)) = 0;
fileInfo.speed = speed;
%% LINEARIZE POSTION AND CALCULATE LAPS
fileInfo.xyt(x > mazeLimits(sessionNumber, 2) | x < mazeLimits(sessionNumber, 1) | y > mazeLimits(sessionNumber, 4) | y < mazeLimits(sessionNumber, 3), :) = [];
fileInfo.linearPos(:, 1) = linearPos;
fileInfo.linearPos(:, 2) = fileInfo.xyt(:, 3); % time
direction = 'bi';
[lapsStruct, turningPeriods] = calculateLapTimings(fileInfo, direction, storageDir);
if length(lapsStruct.RL) > length(lapsStruct.LR)
lapsStruct.RL(1,:) = [];
end
totNumLaps = size(lapsStruct.RL, 1) + size(lapsStruct.LR, 1);
laps = zeros(totNumLaps, 2);
laps(1:2:totNumLaps, :) = lapsStruct.LR;
laps(2:2:totNumLaps, :) = lapsStruct.RL;
laps(:, 3) = 1:size(laps, 1);
fileInfo.linearPos(:, 3) = zeros(size(linearPos)); % labeling the postion samples with the calculated laps (if not part of any lap the label is zero)
for ii = 1: length(laps)
idx = fileInfo.linearPos(:, 2) > laps(ii, 1) & fileInfo.linearPos(:, 2) < laps(ii, 2);
fileInfo.linearPos(idx, 3) = laps(ii, 3);
end
runSpeedThresh = 10; % cm/s
%% calculating position, velocity, etc at each spike (these will be needed for calculation of place fields)
% spikes = spike; % just to make the variable names the same across different datasets
nUnits = numel(spikes);
stabilityPeriod_pre = [max(behavior.time(1,2)-3*60*60, behavior.time(1,1)) behavior.time(1,2)];
stabilityPeriod_maze = behavior.time(2,:);
stabilityPeriod_post = [behavior.time(3,1) behavior.time(3,1)+3*60*60];
stb = [stabilityPeriod_pre; stabilityPeriod_maze; stabilityPeriod_post];
for unit = 1:nUnits
% spikes(unit).time = spikes(unit).t';
spikes(unit).time = spikes(unit).time;
spikeTimes = spikes(unit).time;
spikes(unit).x = interp1(fileInfo.xyt(:, 3), fileInfo.xyt(:, 1), spikeTimes);
spikes(unit).y = interp1(fileInfo.xyt(:, 3), fileInfo.xyt(:, 2), spikeTimes);
spikes(unit).linearPos = interp1(fileInfo.linearPos(:, 2), fileInfo.linearPos(:, 1), spikeTimes);
spikes(unit).speed = interp1(speed.t, speed.v, spikeTimes);
spikes(unit).lap = zeros(1, numel(spikeTimes));
for spk = 1:numel(spikeTimes)
index = find(laps(:, 1) < spikeTimes(spk) & laps(:, 2) > spikeTimes(spk));
if ~isempty(index)
spikes(unit).lap(spk) = laps(index, 3);
end
end
% spikes(unit).id = [spikes(unit).shank spikes(unit).id];
% spikes(unit).quality = spikes(unit).q;
%
spikes(unit).fr_by_epoch = nan(1,3);
for ip = 1:size(stb, 1)
spikes(unit).fr_by_epoch(ip) = numel(find(spikes(unit).time > stb(ip, 1) & spikes(unit).time <= stb(ip, 2)))/diff(stb(ip, :));
end
spikes(unit).fr_pre_post_ratio = spikes(unit).fr_by_epoch(3)/ spikes(unit).fr_by_epoch(1); % the difference between the pre and post epoch next the the maze is enough
if spikes(unit).fr_pre_post_ratio > 1
spikes(unit).fr_pre_post_bias = 1; % smaller as a percent of the greater firing rate
spikes(unit).fr_pre_post_ratio = 1/spikes(unit).fr_pre_post_ratio;
else
spikes(unit).fr_pre_post_bias = -1;
end
if spikes(unit).fr_pre_post_ratio > 0.3 && spikes(unit).fr_by_epoch(2) > 0.02 && strcmp(spikes(unit).group, 'good')
spikes(unit).fr_isStable = 1;
else
spikes(unit).fr_isStable = 0;
end
end
%% Spatial tuning of the units
spikes_pyr = spikes(strcmp({spikes.group}, 'pyr '));
fileInfo.okUnits = 1:numel(spikes_pyr); % all pyramidal units regardless of their stability will be considered in Bayesian decoding
close all
subfolder = fullfile(storageDir, 'placeFields');
if ~exist(subfolder, 'dir')
mkdir(subfolder)
end
%%% 1D spatial tuning: using linearized position
posBinSize = 2;
spikes_pyr = spatialTuning_1D_June21(spikes_pyr, behavior, [], [], fileInfo.speed, runSpeedThresh, 'LR', posBinSize, fileInfo, subfolder);
spikes_pyr = spatialTuning_1D_June21(spikes_pyr, behavior, [], [], fileInfo.speed, runSpeedThresh, 'RL', posBinSize, fileInfo, subfolder);
spikes_pyr = spatialTuning_1D_June21(spikes_pyr, behavior, [], [], fileInfo.speed, runSpeedThresh, 'uni', posBinSize, fileInfo, subfolder);
close all
% save spikes and file info
fileName = fullfile(folderName, [sessionName '.spikes.mat']);
save(fileName, 'spikes', 'spikes_pyr', 'fileInfo', '-v7.3')
end
%% generate a clu and res file for interneurons and mua for visualizing population bursts on Neuroscope
% subfolder = fullfile(storageDir, 'placeFields');
% if ~exist(subfolder, 'dir')
% mkdir(subfolder)
% end
%
%
% if sessionNumber == 3
% int_and_MUA_Idx = find(ismember({spikes.group}, {'inter'; 'mua'}));
% else
% int_and_MUA_Idx = find(ismember([spikes.quality], [6 8]));
% end
%
% res_t = [];
% clu_t = [];
%
% for unit = 1:numel(int_and_MUA_Idx)
%
% spikeTimes = floor(spikes(int_and_MUA_Idx(unit)).time*fileInfo.Fs);
% cluIdx = unit*ones(numel(spikeTimes), 1);
%
% res_t = [res_t; spikeTimes];
% clu_t = [clu_t; cluIdx];
%
% end
%
% [res_t, ind] = sort(res_t);
% clu_t = clu_t(ind)-1;
%
% Saveres(fullfile(subfolder, [fileInfo.sessionName 'mua.201' '.res.3']), res_t);
% SaveClu(fullfile(subfolder, [fileInfo.sessionName 'mua.201' '.clu.3']), clu_t);
%
%% RIPPLE DETECTION
folderName = fullfile(storageDir, 'ripples');
fileName = fullfile(folderName, [fileInfo.sessionName '.rippleEvents.mat']);
if exist(fileName, 'file')
load(fileName, 'rippleLFP', 'rplDetectParams', 'rippleEvents')
end
overwrite = 0;
if ~exist('rippleLFP', 'var') || overwrite == 1
mkdir(folderName);
rplDetectParams.method = 'summedChan';
rplDetectParams.threshold = 2;
rplDetectParams.minDur = 0.04; % number of bins
rplDetectParams.maxDur = 0.60;
rplDetectParams.binDur = 0.02;
rplDetectParams.thRatioThresh = 1;
rplDetectParams.rippleAThresh_low = 1;
rplDetectParams.rippleAThresh_high = 3;
rplDetectParams.exclude = brainState.periods(ismember(brainState.periods(:, 3), [2 3 4]), 1:2); % NREM and QW periods
dur = diff(rplDetectParams.exclude');
rplDetectParams.exclude(dur<0.5, :) = [];
[ripplePeriods, rawLFP, ripplePower_summed, includeIdx] = RippleDetect_include(baseFile, fileInfo, rplDetectParams); % the results in seconds
% downsample the ripple band lfp or power to 1kHz
ts = 1/fileInfo.lfpSampleRate;
tend = length(rawLFP)/fileInfo.lfpSampleRate;
tPnts = ts:ts:tend;
t_1ms = 1e-3:1e-3:tend;
rawLFP2 = zeros(numel(t_1ms), size(rawLFP, 2));
for ich = 1:size(rawLFP, 2)
rawLFP2(:, ich) = interp1(tPnts, rawLFP(:, ich), t_1ms);
end
rawLFP = rawLFP2;
power_summed = interp1(tPnts, ripplePower_summed, t_1ms);
rippleLFP.rawLFP = rawLFP;
rippleLFP.power_summed = power_summed;
rippleLFP.timePnts = t_1ms;
end
%% DETECTING POPULATION BURST EVENTS (PBEs)
folderName = fullfile(storageDir, 'PopulationBurstEvents');
overwrite = 1;
if exist(folderName, 'dir') && overwrite == 0
load(fullfile(folderName, [fileInfo.sessionName '.PBEInfo.mat']), 'PBEInfo_Bayesian', 'sdat');
load(fullfile(folderName, [fileInfo.sessionName '.PBEInfo.mat']), 'PBEInfo')
else
mkdir(folderName)
MUA.time = []; for unit = 1:numel(spikes); MUA.time = [MUA.time; spikes(unit).time]; end
MUA.time = sort(MUA.time, 'ascend');
% detection parameters
pbeDetectParams.time_resolution = 0.001;
pbeDetectParams.threshold = 2;
pbeDetectParams.exclude = brainState.periods(ismember(brainState.periods(:, 3), [2 3]), 1:2); % limiting to NREM and QW periods
% pbeDetectParams.exclude = [];
pbeDetectParams.smoothingSigma = 0.01;
pbeDetectParams.minDur = 0.04; % number of bins
pbeDetectParams.maxDur = 0.5;
pbeDetectParams.maxSilence = 0.03;
pbeDetectParams.maxVelocity = 10;
pbeDetectParams.thRatioThresh = 1;
pbeDetectParams.rippleAThresh_low = 1;
pbeDetectParams.rippleAThresh_high = 3;
pbeDetectParams.binDur = 0.02;
pbeDetectParams.minNTimeBins = 4;
pbeDetectParams.minFiringUnits = max(5, 0.1*numel(fileInfo.okUnits)); % okUnits are all pyramidal units regardless of their stability
% detecting primary PBEs, just the boundaries of potential PBEs before
% applying any criteria
[primaryPBEs, sdat] = PBPeriods(MUA, pbeDetectParams, fileInfo); % already filtering based on the duration in this step
fileName = fullfile(folderName, [fileInfo.sessionName '.PBEs_before_splitting.mat']);
save(fileName, 'primaryPBEs', 'pbeDetectParams', 'sdat', '-v7.3')
% splitting the detected PBEs if there was a long silence in the middle
PBEs_splitted = splitPBEs(primaryPBEs, spikes_pyr, sdat, pbeDetectParams);
% calculate a number of features for the PBEs; brain state, number of
% acive units, binned firing rate , etc
[PBEInfo, PBEInfo_Bayesian, idx_Bayesian] = genEventStructure(PBEs_splitted, spikes_pyr, sdat, rippleLFP, pbeDetectParams, brainState, fileInfo, folderName, 'pbe');
end
%% calculate for each ripple concurrent brain state, binned firing rate, number of active units, etc
folderName = fullfile(storageDir, 'ripples');
fileName = fullfile(folderName, [fileInfo.sessionName '.rippleEvents.mat']);
if ~exist(fileName, 'file')
rippleEvents = genEventStructure(ripplePeriods, spikes_pyr, sdat, rippleLFP, rplDetectParams, brainState, fileInfo, folderName, 'ripple');
save(fileName, 'rippleLFP', 'rplDetectParams', 'rippleEvents', '-v7.3')
end
%% adding variables to the EEG file
nCh = fileInfo.nCh;
EEGdata = readmulti([baseFile '.eeg'], nCh, 1); % load .eeg trace
totalT = length(EEGdata)/fileInfo.lfpSampleRate;
samplingDur = 1/fileInfo.lfpSampleRate;
samplingPnts = samplingDur:samplingDur:totalT;
sdat_mua_2add = interp1((1:length(sdat))*1e-3, sdat, samplingPnts);
speed_2add = interp1(fileInfo.speed.t, fileInfo.speed.v, samplingPnts);
ripple_2add = interp1(t_1ms, power_summed, samplingPnts);
theratio_2add = interp1(timePnts, theratio, samplingPnts);
sdat_mua_2add(isnan(sdat_mua_2add)) = 0;
sdat_mua_2add(sdat_mua_2add < 0) = 0;
sdat_mua_2add(sdat_mua_2add > 3) = 3;
sdat_mua_2add = (2*(sdat_mua_2add-min(sdat_mua_2add))/(max(sdat_mua_2add)-min(sdat_mua_2add))-1)*2^10;
speed_2add(speed_2add < 10) = 0;
speed_2add = (2*(speed_2add-min(speed_2add))/(max(speed_2add)-min(speed_2add))-1)*2^11;
ripple_2add(isnan(ripple_2add)) = 0;
ripple_2add(ripple_2add > 3) = 3;
ripple_2add(ripple_2add < 0) = 0;
ripple_2add = (2*(ripple_2add - min(ripple_2add))/(max(ripple_2add)-min(ripple_2add))-1)*2^10;
theratio_2add(isnan(theratio_2add)) = 0;
theratio_2add(theratio_2add < 1) = 0;
theratio_2add = (2*(theratio_2add - min(theratio_2add))/(max(theratio_2add)-min(theratio_2add))-1)*2^11;
inputFileHandle = fopen([baseFile,'.eeg']);
outputFileHandle = fopen([baseFile,'-2.eeg'],'w');
doneFrame = 0;
bufferSize = 4096;
while ~feof(inputFileHandle)
data = (fread(inputFileHandle,[nCh,bufferSize],'int16'))';
for frame=1:size(data,1)
fwrite(outputFileHandle,[data(frame,:), sdat_mua_2add(frame+doneFrame), speed_2add(frame+doneFrame), ripple_2add(frame+doneFrame), theratio_2add(frame+doneFrame)]','int16');
end
doneFrame=doneFrame+frame;
end
fclose(inputFileHandle);
fclose(outputFileHandle);
%% Bayesian decoding
% BayesianReplayDetection_GrosmarkReclu_nov2020
end
%% functions
function speed = calspeed(fileInfo, position_samplingRate)
xpos = fileInfo.xyt(:, 1);
ypos = fileInfo.xyt(:, 2);
timepnts = fileInfo.xyt(:, 3);
diffx = [0; abs(diff(xpos))];
diffy = [0; abs(diff(ypos))];
difft = [1; diff(timepnts)];
velocity = sqrt(diffx.^2 + diffy.^2)./difft;
% interpolate the velocty at time point with missing position data
velocity(isnan(velocity)) = interp1(timepnts(~isnan(velocity)), velocity(~isnan(velocity)), timepnts(isnan(velocity)));
% smoothing the speed
sigma = 0.25/(1/position_samplingRate);
halfwidth = 3 * sigma;
smoothwin = gausswindow(sigma, halfwidth); % smoothing kernel
speed.v = conv(velocity, smoothwin, 'same');
% speed.v = velocity;
speed.t = timepnts;
end