EasyBCIdata-agent

Neurodata Without Borders (.nwb) — the de-facto standard for in-vivo electrophysiology (Neuropixels / AIBS / DANDI / IBL)

Index of L0 data-format loader skills by family

Index of all L2 paradigm skills by group + analysis_goal → paradigm matrix

Two-phase BCI data preprocessing pipeline: deep-inspect → plan → propose → user confirm → automated code/execute/QC/export

BIDS-iEEG sidecar (*_channels.tsv / *_electrodes.tsv / *_coordsystem.json / *_ieeg.json) — clinical sEEG / ECoG standard

Multiscale Electrophysiology Format v3 (Mayo Clinic) — long-duration encrypted sEEG

BrainVision (.vhdr / .vmrk / .eeg) — Brain Products vendor format

Plain .csv / .npy / .npz array loaders — last-resort generic data import

European Data Format (.edf) — clinical EEG / sEEG / PSG standard

EEGLAB SET (.set / .fdt) — MATLAB EEGLAB native format

Elekta/MNE FIF (.fif) — MEG / EEG native format

MATLAB .mat — generic MATLAB array container (v5 / v7 / v7.3)

XDF (.xdf) — Extensible Data Format from LSL recordings

SNIRF — fNIRS BIDS-recommended HDF5 format (Society for fNIRS canonical)

Blackrock Cerebus / NSP — clinical Utah-array acquisition (.ns5 raw / .ns2 LFP / .nev events)

Neuralynx (.ncs / .nse / .nev / .ntt) — tetrode-era ephys with rich event/spike sidecars

Open Ephys GUI Record Node output (continuous.dat / structure.oebin) — open-source ephys acquisition

Plexon (.plx / .pl2) — NHP electrophysiology + behavior synchronization

SpikeGLX (.bin + .meta) — IMEC Neuropixels vendor acquisition format (AP / LF / nidq streams)

Lab Streaming Layer (LSL) — real-time multi-stream acquisition for closed-loop / online BCI

Artifact Subspace Reconstruction (Kothe-Makeig 2013) — online BCI gold standard, ICA alternative

Autoreject (Jas et al. 2017) — automatic threshold + channel interpolation for ERP epochs

ICA artifact removal — automatic detection and exclusion of EOG/ECG components

Pan-Tompkins QRS detector — extract heart-beat events from EOG/ECG channels

Regression-based EOG removal — fast online ocular artifact suppression

Clamp signal amplitude to a maximum absolute value

Remove channels marked as bad (flat, noisy, or manually flagged)

Remove non-data channels (markers/triggers, misc, optionally physiological refs)

Replace non-finite values (NaN, Inf) with a specified constant

Spherical spline interpolation to reconstruct bad channel data from neighbors

Select channels by name list or type (EEG, MEG, etc.)

Scale/normalize signal amplitude — robust, standard, or numeric factor

Magnitude-squared / imaginary coherence — spectral-domain connectivity

Directed Transfer Function / Partial Directed Coherence — frequency-domain directed connectivity

Granger causality via multivariate autoregressive (MVAR) model — directed connectivity

Phase Lag Index / weighted PLI — volume-conduction-robust phase connectivity (Stam 2007 / Vinck 2011)

Phase-Locking Value — pairwise phase synchrony (Lachaux 1999)

Anti-alias FIR filter followed by integer-factor decimation — explicit pre-roll for cross-band pipelines

Band-pass filter to isolate frequency range of interest with Nyquist guard

Multi-harmonic comb filter — remove power-line fundamental + all harmonics in one pass