Main cellpy objects

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The CellpyCell object

digraph { "CellpyCell" -> "Data"; "CellpyCell" -> "session metadata"; "CellpyCell" -> "cellpy metadata"; "CellpyCell" -> "methods"; }

The CellpyCell object contains the main methods as well as the actual data:

cellpy_instance = CellpyCell(...)

Data is stored within an instance of the Data class.

digraph { "CellpyCell" -> "Data"; "Data" -> "cell metadata (cell)"; "Data" -> "cell metadata (test)"; "Data" -> "methods"; "Data" -> "raw"; "Data" -> "steps"; "Data" -> "summary"; }

The Data instance can be reached using the data property:

cell_data = cellpy_instance.data

The Data object

The Data object contains the data and the meta-data for the cell characterisation experiment(s).

The cellpy file format

As default, cellpy stores files in the hdf5 format.