Call for community feedback on the Neo object model for electrophysiology and optophysiology data - open until August 14, 2022

INCF is taking a leading role in endorsing and promoting standards and best practices (SBPs) for global neuroscience, as part of our mission to promote data reuse and reproducibility in brain research. SBP’s are nominated by the community and reviewed by the INCF SBP Committee according to our criteria for a FAIR community standard. If they meet our criteria, we put them up for 60 days of community review to gauge the level of user support and to identify possibilities for improvement and potential weaknesses.

For the next 60 days (Closing date:  August 14, 2022), we are seeking community feedback on whether we should endorse the Neo object model as a standard.

Neo is an object model for handling electrophysiology data in multiple formats. It is suitable for representing data acquired from electroencephalographic, intracellular, or extracellular recordings, or generated from simulations. Neo has been implemented as a Python package for working with electrophysiology data, 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 Kwik and HDF5.

Should Neo be endorsed as a standard? Comments open until Aug 14: f1000research.com/documents/11-658

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