BIDS2NDA

Extract NIMH Data Archive compatible metadata from Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) 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.
  OUTPUT_DIRECTORY  Directory where NDA files will be stored.

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>

Example outputs

See /examples

Notes:

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