BIDS2NDA

Extract NIHM Data Archive compatible metadata from Brain Imaging Data Structure compatible datasets

Installation

pip install https://github.com/INCF/BIDS2NDA/archive/master.zip

Usage

usage: bids2nda [-h] [-v] BIDS_DIRECTORY GUID_MAPPING OUTPUT_DIRECTORY

BIDS to NDA converter.

positional arguments:
  BIDS_DIRECTORY    Location of the root of your BIDS compatible directory
  GUID_MAPPING      Path to a text file with participant_id to GUID mapping.
                    You will need to use the GUID Tool
                    (https://ndar.nih.gov/contribute.html) to generate GUIDs
                    for your participants. Formatted as  <participant_id> - <GUID>
  OUTPUT_DIRECTORY  Directory where NDA files will be stored
  EXPERIMENT_ID     experiment_id value assigned from NDA after setting the study up throught the NDA website (int)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help        show this help message and exit

GUID_MAPPING file format

The is the file format produced by the GUID Tool: one line per subject in the format:

<participant_id> - <GUID>

If your ids are in the format of sub-sid001420, be sure to not include 'sub-' in your <participant_id> e.g., <sid001420> - <GUID>

Example outputs

See /examples

Notes:

Column experiment_id must be manually filled in for now. This is based on experiment ID's received from NDA after setting the study up through the NDA website here.