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extract asset brain area from location field #1806
Description
NWB files have location fields:
ImagingPlane.location(optical physiology)electrodes.location(extracellular electrophysiology)IntracellularElectrode.location(intracellular electrophysiology)
These "locations" are brain areas, and we can populate asset-level metadata about brain area by scanning them. They often correspond exactly to Allen CCF brain area abbreviations, and can therefore be mapped directly to the MBAO ontology. See https://github.com/bendichter/analyze-locations/tree/main for details.
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yarikoptic commentedon Feb 21, 2026
more specifically - https://github.com/bendichter/analyze-locations/blob/main/FINDINGS.md contains findings there.
and I guess for every asset we should place into .wasDerivedFrom a BioSample with .anatomy being Anatomy with that name and identifier mapping to MBAO:?
then we would add aggregation within dandischema across assets
kinda correct @satra ?
satra commentedon Feb 21, 2026
yup
feat: extract brain area anatomy from NWB location fields