Starting a new project

This section describes in depth how to start a new project and load your exported from Ethovision data.

Contents

1. Create a new project
2. Data format
3. Assign animal groups
4. Settings
5. Properties and plotting

### Create a new project ###

On the main menu press the button New Project and on the pop-up window specify a project name and the location in which your project will be created (the default path is the folder: My Documents > MWMGEN). Press OK to continue

### Data format ###

• Trajectory Raw Data: This field requires a valid path in which the exported data from Ethovision are located. Each subfolder inside the specified folder will be assumed that contains a different experiment session. Each session needs to have at least one file (thus if the specified folder or any subfolders are empty then no session will be created for them). The picture below shows accepted input folder arrangements.


• Format Fields: These fields require information from the exported files of Ethovision. Each one of these files should contain a cell specifying the animal id and a sequence of cells specifying the location of the animal over Time in X, Y coordinates. These cells needs to be provide in the same way as it is shown in the picture and has to be unique. There is also the option of providing multiple values by separating them with comma, such as ID Field: rat,id. The picture below shows how to fill the format fields.


Important note: the ID format cells need to be followed (horizontally) by a cell containing a numeric value. The Rec. Time, X and Y cells need to be followed (vertically) by numeric values any empty or non-numeric values (e.g. ' - ' will be excluded).