About nwbindexer

nwbindexer is a python package that contains two tools for searching within Neurodata Without Borders files (abbreviation NWB, described at: https://nwb-schema.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) that are stored using the HDF5 (https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/HDF5) format. The two tools are:

• nwbindexer - builds an SQLite database (also called the ‘index’) containing metadata in a collection of NWB files and and allows searching the metadata in the database.
• search_nwb.py - searches within one or more NWB files directly (without building an index).

The source repository for nwbindexer is: https://github.com/jeffteeters/nwbindexer. A related third tool is the NWB Query Engine. It is at: https://github.com/jezekp/NwbQueryEngine. The two tools in nwbindexer use a query format similar to the one used in the NWB Query Engine. A web page allowing example searches using all three tools is at: http://eeg.kiv.zcu.cz:8080/nwb-query-engine-web/.