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--- manual:aube [2016/06/16 17:05] – sentence structure zenke
+++ manual:aube [2017/04/18 16:22] (current) – [Extracting spikes from a single spk file.] zenke
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 ====== Auryn Binary Extract (aube) ======
-This command line tool extracts spike information from [[spk|binary spike raster files]] and converts them in the more digestible [[ras]] format. Binary files provide a significant simulation speed advantage over the old [[ras]] file format and allow random access to spike information. ''aube'' is capable of efficiently merging multiple [[spk]] files and export select temporal ranges from it to the more digestible [[ras]] format. It can be efficiently incorporated into Linux command-line and pipe based work flow and works flawlessly with [[gnuplot]]. The tool included with Auryn releases (ver. >0.6.1) and can be found in the ''tools'' directory.
+This command line tool extracts spike information from [[spk|binary spike raster files]] and converts them in the more digestible [[ras]] format. Binary files provide a significant simulation speed advantage over the old [[ras]] file format, take less disk space and allow random access to temporal chunks of spike information. ''aube'' is capable of efficiently merging the multiple [[spk]] files generated by parallel simulations and exports only select temporal ranges from it. It can be efficiently incorporated into Linux command-line and pipe based work flow and works flawlessly with [[gnuplot]]. The tool included with Auryn releases (ver. >0.6.1) and can be found in the ''tools'' directory. For users doing their analysis in Python, the [[python tools]] offer an alternative to decoding spk files. These tools allow to directly import binary spiking data into Python without the detour via aube.
 ===== Compiling/Installing aube =====
 ''aube'' is [[manual:compileauryn|compiled]] automatically with the rest of Auryn and located in the tools directory. It can be installed to your systems default install location (e.g. ''/usr/local/bin'') with the help of ''make install''. Otherwise you will have to ensure yourself that ''aube'' is in the PATH for the following examples to work.
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 aube --input /tmp/coba.0.e.spk
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+or, alternatively, in short
+<code>
+aube -i /tmp/coba.0.e.spk
+</code>
 If you want to write the output to a file instead you can call: