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SWC/GCNU Neuroinformatics Unit

Neuroscience & ML Research Software Engineering Group
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Neuroinformatics Unit

The Neuroinformatics Unit (NIU) is a Research Software Engineering team based at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre and the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit.

The NIU is dedicated to the development of high quality, accurate, robust, easy to use and maintainable open-source software for neuroscience and machine learning. We collaborate with researchers and other software engineers to advance research in the two research centres and make new algorithms and tools available to the global community.

We also lead development of the BrainGlobe Initiative and contribute to various Sainsbury Wellcome Centre and other open-source tools.

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  1. movement movement Public

    A Python toolbox for analysing animal body movements across space and time

    Python 232 103

  2. NeuroBlueprint NeuroBlueprint Public

    Lightweight data specification for systems neuroscience, inspired by BIDS.

    20 5

  3. datashuttle datashuttle Public

    Tool for the creation, validation and transfer of neuroscience project folders.

    Python 33 36

  4. python-cookiecutter python-cookiecutter Public

    Utility to create a basic Python project structure with tests, CI etc.

    Python 36 9

  5. fancylog fancylog Public

    Fancier logging with python.

    Python 16 12

  6. spikewrap spikewrap Public

    A package to manage electrophysiology analysis.

    Python 22 14

Repositories

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  • movement Public

    A Python toolbox for analysing animal body movements across space and time

    neuroinformatics-unit/movement’s past year of commit activity
    Python 232 BSD-3-Clause 103 113 (2 issues need help) 36 Updated Feb 19, 2026
  • neuroinformatics-unit.github.io Public

    Home website of the Neuroinformatics Unit

    neuroinformatics-unit/neuroinformatics-unit.github.io’s past year of commit activity
    13 BSD-3-Clause 7 8 0 Updated Feb 19, 2026
  • dashboard Public Forked from github-community-projects/org-metrics-dashboard

    Overview of all Neuroinformatics Unit repos

    neuroinformatics-unit/dashboard’s past year of commit activity
    Python 4 BSD-3-Clause 38 5 1 Updated Feb 19, 2026
  • smart-kages-movement Public

    Using the movement package to analysing mouse home cage monitoring data acquired in Smart-Kages and tracked with DeepLabCut.

    neuroinformatics-unit/smart-kages-movement’s past year of commit activity
    Jupyter Notebook 5 BSD-3-Clause 2 2 2 Updated Feb 19, 2026
  • scripts Public

    Small but useful scripts to share

    neuroinformatics-unit/scripts’s past year of commit activity
    Python 7 0 0 1 Updated Feb 18, 2026
  • datashuttle Public

    Tool for the creation, validation and transfer of neuroscience project folders.

    neuroinformatics-unit/datashuttle’s past year of commit activity
    Python 33 BSD-3-Clause 36 50 (3 issues need help) 14 Updated Feb 18, 2026
  • OSCaR Public

    A python package for mouse breeding calculations.

    neuroinformatics-unit/OSCaR’s past year of commit activity
    Python 1 BSD-3-Clause 0 0 0 Updated Feb 17, 2026
  • spikewrap Public

    A package to manage electrophysiology analysis.

    neuroinformatics-unit/spikewrap’s past year of commit activity
    Python 22 BSD-3-Clause 14 21 6 Updated Feb 16, 2026
  • derotation Public

    Derotate images acquired via multiphoton calcium imaging

    neuroinformatics-unit/derotation’s past year of commit activity
    Python 9 BSD-3-Clause 3 5 (2 issues need help) 2 Updated Feb 16, 2026
  • HowTo Public

    NIU website on common software problems and their troubleshooting

    neuroinformatics-unit/HowTo’s past year of commit activity
    10 CC-BY-4.0 1 13 2 Updated Feb 13, 2026
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