Convert Igor pro data and metadata to NeXus¶

Who is this tutorial for?¶

This document is for people who want to use this reader as a standalone application for converting their research data into a standardized NeXus format.

What should you should know before this tutorial?¶

You should have a basic understanding of FAIRmat NeXus and pynxtools
You should have a basic understanding of using Python and Jupyter notebooks via JupyterLab

What you will know at the end of this tutorial?¶

You will have a basic understanding how to use pynxtools-igor for converting your Igor Pro data to a NeXus/HDF5 file.

Steps¶

Installation¶

See here for how to install pynxtools together with the Igor reader plugin.

Running the reader from the command line¶

An example script to run the igor reader in pynxtools:

 ! dataconverter \
--reader igor \
--nxdl NXroot \
$<igor-file path> \
$<eln-file path> \
$<entry-file path> \
-c $<config-file path> \
--output <output-file path>.nxs

Examples¶

You can find various examples how to use pynxtools-igor for your Igor Pro research data pipeline in src/pynxtools-igor/nomad/examples. These are designed for working with NOMAD and its NOMAD Remote Tools Hub (NORTH).

There are also small example files for using the pynxtools dataconverter with the igor reader in tests/data.

For this tutorial, we will work with this data. You can run the conversion as

dataconverter \\
    --reader igor \\
    --nxdl NXroot \\
    Norm_0057.ibw \\
    Norm_0059.ibw \\
    -c  config_file.json \\
    --output example_ibw.nxs

Congrats! You now have a NeXus file generated from the igor binary wave files!