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alert: spikeglx imro format changing #1843
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To facilitate third party developers who seek to edit imro tables, I'm changing how imro headers look. In particular, in the header section that used to look like (probe_type, nchans) it will now be saved as (probe_part_number, nchans). This change and additional details on how part numbers and type codes work is documented here.
The type code should not be necessary to decode imro tables. Rather, the probe_part_number is used as a key into the public probe table to get item: imro_table_format_type which selects the appropriate format specifier, e.g., "imro_np1000."
Also, I've published version 1.6 of the probe table here.
I'm available for discussion and to help with this transition in SpikeInterface.
Bill Karsh
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alejoe91 commentedon May 6, 2026
Hi @billkarsh
Thank you so much for letting us know!
I think that the only change on our end is when we read a probe directly from the IMRO table (here). However, this is not used downstream since for SpikeGLX we read the probe part numbet directly from the meta file.
I don't think that we would need any change to the NEO parser either, since we use the same trick.