Neo and OpenElectrophy

Author: Samuel Garcia

flier/eppy-handout.tex

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 \item Comes with a tool to convert any data file supported by Neuroshare to the HDF5 format
 \end{itemize}
 
+%_________________________________neo_______________________________________
+\ndproject{Neo}{http://packages.python.org/neo/}{neo_logo.png}{.2}{-0.25em}{0em}
+
+Neo is a package for representing electrophysiology data in Python, together with support
+for reading a wide range of neurophysiology file formats, including Spike2, NeuroExplorer,
+AlphaOmega, Axon, Blackrock, Plexon, Tdt, and support for writing to a subset of these
+formats plus non-proprietary formats including HDF5.
+
+The goal of Neo is to improve interoperability between Python tools for analyzing, visualizing
+and generating electrophysiology data (such as OpenElectrophy, NeuroTools, G-node,
+Helmholtz, PyNN) 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 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.
+
+
+%____________________OpenElectrophy______________________________________
+
+\ndproject{OpenElectrophy}{http://packages.python.org/OpenElectrophy/}{OpenElectrophy_logo.png}{.2}{-0.25em}{0em}
+
+OpenElectrophy is build on top of neo.
+
+\begin{itemize}[nolistsep,topsep=0em,leftmargin=1pc]
+\item A GUI on top of neo.
+\item A collection of method for spike sorting and powerfull GUI.
+\item A wavelet method for analysing transient oscillations in LFP.
+\item A customisable database to organize datasets.
+\end{itemize}
+
+%___________________________________________________________________________
 
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 \ndsection{Metadata Management}%