Manual Tables

Manual tables are populated during experiments through a variety of interfaces. Not all manual information is entered by typing. Automated software can enter it directly into the database. What makes a manual table manual is that it does not perform any computations within the DataJoint pipeline.

The following code defines three manual tables Animal, Session, and Scan:

@schema
class Animal(dj.Manual):
    definition = """
    # information about animal
    animal_id : int  # animal id assigned by the lab
    ---
    -> Species
    date_of_birth=null : date  # YYYY-MM-DD optional
    sex='' : enum('M', 'F', '')   # leave empty if unspecified
    """

@schema
class Session(dj.Manual):
    definition = """
    # Experiment Session
    -> Animal
    session  : smallint  # session number for the animal
    ---
    session_date : date  # YYYY-MM-DD
    -> User
    -> Anesthesia
    -> Rig
    """

@schema
class Scan(dj.Manual):
    definition = """
    # Two-photon imaging scan
    -> Session
    scan : smallint  # scan number within the session
    ---
    -> Lens
    laser_wavelength : decimal(5,1)  # um
    laser_power      : decimal(4,1)  # mW
    """

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