Accessing public data with ONE

The public data includes both compressed raw ephys data and preprocessed data, as well as behaviour and video data. A full list of dataset types and their details can be found here.

To get started you will first need to install python. We recommend installing through Anaconda. Once python is installed open a conda terminal and type the following to create a new conda environment. When prompted enter yes.

conda create --name ibllib python=3.8 

We will then activate this new environment and install ibllib

conda activate ibllib
pip install ibllib

Once installed open a python or ipython terminal by typing

ipython

In the python terminal type:

from one.api import ONE
one = ONE(silent=True)

If everything has been installed correctly you should see a message in the terminal saying,

Connected to https://openalyx.internationalbrainlab.org

To start exploring the publically available available please proceed to Getting started with ONE