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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 218 87

  2. NeuroBlueprint NeuroBlueprint Public

    Lightweight data specification for systems neuroscience, inspired by BIDS.

    19 4

  3. datashuttle datashuttle Public

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

    Python 31 30

  4. python-cookiecutter python-cookiecutter Public

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

    Python 35 8

  5. fancylog fancylog Public

    Fancier logging with python.

    Python 14 11

  6. spikewrap spikewrap Public

    A package to manage electrophysiology analysis.

    Python 22 14

Repositories

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  • datashuttle Public

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

    neuroinformatics-unit/datashuttle’s past year of commit activity
    Python 31 BSD-3-Clause 30 54 (6 issues need help) 17 Updated Jan 2, 2026
  • actions Public

    Re-usable GitHub Action scripts

    neuroinformatics-unit/actions’s past year of commit activity
    13 MIT 4 8 6 Updated Jan 2, 2026
  • movement Public

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

    neuroinformatics-unit/movement’s past year of commit activity
    Python 218 BSD-3-Clause 87 111 (2 issues need help) 25 Updated Jan 1, 2026
  • derotation Public

    Derotate images acquired via multiphoton calcium imaging

    neuroinformatics-unit/derotation’s past year of commit activity
    Python 8 BSD-3-Clause 1 5 (1 issue needs help) 2 Updated Jan 1, 2026
  • ethology Public

    Mix-and-match computer vision tools for your animal behaviour analysis

    neuroinformatics-unit/ethology’s past year of commit activity
    Python 22 BSD-3-Clause 21 29 16 Updated Jan 1, 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
    TypeScript 2 MIT 37 2 11 Updated Dec 23, 2025
  • spikewrap Public

    A package to manage electrophysiology analysis.

    neuroinformatics-unit/spikewrap’s past year of commit activity
    Python 22 BSD-3-Clause 14 21 5 Updated Dec 22, 2025
  • poseinterface Public

    Run pose estimation across frameworks

    neuroinformatics-unit/poseinterface’s past year of commit activity
    Python 4 BSD-3-Clause 0 5 0 Updated Dec 18, 2025
  • 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 1 1 0 Updated Dec 17, 2025
  • NeuroBlueprint Public

    Lightweight data specification for systems neuroscience, inspired by BIDS.

    neuroinformatics-unit/NeuroBlueprint’s past year of commit activity
    19 CC-BY-4.0 4 13 1 Updated Dec 16, 2025
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