Jessica, On Jan 20, 2008, at 7:18 PM, jessica f cantlon wrote:
I have a beginner's question about using caret to project foci to the PALS atlas. When I go to do that I get the message "These foci do not have associated stereotaxic spaces:" and it lists all of them, even though I have gone through and individually selected the space format in the "Study Metadata Editor" for every study. Is there something obvious I'm not doing?
I suspect the problem is that the linkage between the individual foci and the corresponding studies is not complete. Each focus gets linked to a unique study using the PubMed ID (PMID) number (or a ProjID that is automatically assigned if there is no PMID number). If the individual foci all have a 'Name' entry that matches the Study Name, then you can automatically fill in all of the PMID numbers using: Select Layers: Foci: Update Focus PubMed ID if Focus Study Name Matches Study Name, then select Confirm in the popup window.
This will populate the PubMed ID column with the PMID number (or the Project ID number if no PMID is available) and the stereotaxic space (if entered into the study file).
This step may not be adequately explained in the current tutorials, so we will try to get that fixed.
If this doesn't work, let us know; it might then become useful to take a look at your actual dataset.
As a heads-up, a number of important refinements are well underway with regard to stereotaxic foci. One is that we are incorporating flexible 'Foci search' capabilities within Caret that are proving to be very helpful for comparisons across the 14,000 published foci currently accessible via SumsDB. We are aiming to have a new Caret release and associated tutorial available in the late-winter/early- spring time frame.
David VE
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