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- .. module:: neo
- .. image:: images/neologo.png
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- Neo is a Python package for working with electrophysiology data in Python, together
- with support for reading a wide range of neurophysiology file formats, including
- Spike2, NeuroExplorer, AlphaOmega, Axon, Blackrock, Plexon, Tdt, Igor Pro, and support for
- writing to a subset of these formats plus non-proprietary formats including Klustakwik and HDF5.
- The goal of Neo is to improve interoperability between Python tools for
- analyzing, visualizing and generating electrophysiology data, by providing a common,
- shared object model. In order to be as lightweight a dependency as possible,
- Neo is deliberately limited to represention of data, with no functions for data
- analysis or visualization.
- Neo is used by a number of other software tools, including OpenElectrophy_
- and SpykeViewer_ (data analysis and visualization), Elephant_ (data analysis),
- the G-node_ suite (databasing) and PyNN_ (simulations).
- Neo implements a hierarchical data model well adapted to intracellular and
- extracellular electrophysiology and EEG data with support for multi-electrodes
- (for example tetrodes). Neo's data objects build on the quantities_ package,
- which in turn builds on NumPy by adding support for physical dimensions. Thus
- Neo objects behave just like normal NumPy arrays, but with additional metadata,
- checks for dimensional consistency and automatic unit conversion.
- A project with similar aims but for neuroimaging file formats is `NiBabel`_.
- Documentation
- -------------
- .. toctree::
- :maxdepth: 1
-
- install
- core
- usecases
- io
- examples
- api_reference
- whatisnew
- developers_guide
- io_developers_guide
- authors
- License
- -------
- Neo is free software, distributed under a 3-clause Revised BSD licence (BSD-3-Clause).
- Support
- -------
- If you have problems installing the software or questions about usage, documentation or anything
- else related to Neo, you can post to the `NeuralEnsemble mailing list`_. If you find a bug,
- please create a ticket in our `issue tracker`_.
- Contributing
- ------------
- Any feedback is gladly received and highly appreciated! Neo is a community project,
- and all contributions are welcomed - see the :doc:`developers_guide` for more information.
- `Source code <https://github.com/NeuralEnsemble/python-neo>`_ is on GitHub.
- .. _OpenElectrophy: https://github.com/OpenElectrophy/OpenElectrophy
- .. _Elephant: http://neuralensemble.org/elephant
- .. _G-node: http://www.g-node.org/
- .. _Neuroshare: http://neuroshare.org/
- .. _SpykeViewer: https://spyke-viewer.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
- .. _NiBabel: http://nipy.sourceforge.net/nibabel/
- .. _PyNN: http://neuralensemble.org/PyNN
- .. _quantities: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/quantities
- .. _`NeuralEnsemble mailing list`: http://groups.google.com/group/neuralensemble
- .. _`issue tracker`: https://github.com/NeuralEnsemble/python-neo/issues
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