I’m interested in performing a meta-analysis using nimare. Apparently all analyses are performed on so-called Sleuth text files. I never heard of this file format and I can’t find anything about it using Google. They also don’t appear in the nimare documentation. I would like to know how these files are supposed to ‘look’ like (i.e. how does nimare want the data be structured?).
Yes, “Sleuth text files” refer to the format in which the BrainMap software Sleuth outputs datasets. Those files are only required for the ALE command-line interface, so if your dataset is formatted like a Neurosynth dataset or in our NiMARE format, you can run ALE meta-analyses with some Python code using functions in nimare.io.
Here’s an example text file with two experiments (aka contrasts) from two different studies, all in MNI space: example_sleuth_file.txt (176 Bytes)
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