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SWC/GCNU Neuroinformatics Unit

Neuroscience & ML Research Software Engineering Group

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, co-lead photon-mosaic 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 310 161

  2. NeuroBlueprint NeuroBlueprint Public

    Lightweight data specification for systems neuroscience, inspired by BIDS.

    24 5

  3. datashuttle datashuttle Public

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

    Python 36 38

  4. python-cookiecutter python-cookiecutter Public

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

    Python 39 11

  5. fancylog fancylog Public

    Fancier logging with python.

    Python 16 14

  6. spikewrap spikewrap Public

    A package to manage electrophysiology analysis.

    Python 22 17

Repositories

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  • 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 5 BSD-3-Clause 36 6 2 Updated Oct 11, 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 310 BSD-3-Clause 161 140 (1 issue needs help) 73 Updated Oct 9, 2026
  • neuroinformatics-unit/course-linux-hpc's past year of commit activity
    Python 6 BSD-3-Clause 1 3 0 Updated Oct 9, 2026
  • neuroinformatics-unit.github.io Public

    Home website of the Neuroinformatics Unit

    neuroinformatics-unit/neuroinformatics-unit.github.io's past year of commit activity
    15 BSD-3-Clause 11 30 2 Updated Oct 8, 2026
  • qt-niu Public

    Reusable Qt elements

    neuroinformatics-unit/qt-niu's past year of commit activity
    Python 7 MIT 0 1 0 Updated Oct 7, 2026
  • fancylog Public

    Fancier logging with python.

    neuroinformatics-unit/fancylog's past year of commit activity
    Python 16 BSD-3-Clause 14 13 (1 issue needs help) 2 Updated Oct 7, 2026
  • slides-ssi-fellowship-2025-retro Public

    Niko and Ale's short presentation to an SSI All Fellows Community Call celebrating 2025 fellows

    neuroinformatics-unit/slides-ssi-fellowship-2025-retro's past year of commit activity
    TeX 2 BSD-3-Clause 0 0 0 Updated Oct 7, 2026
  • neuroinformatics-unit/course-intro-scientific-python's past year of commit activity
    Jupyter Notebook 0 BSD-3-Clause 0 2 0 Updated Oct 6, 2026
  • python-cookiecutter Public

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

    neuroinformatics-unit/python-cookiecutter's past year of commit activity
    Python 39 BSD-3-Clause 11 16 2 Updated Oct 6, 2026
  • driftplots Public

    Viewing Kilosort drift maps

    neuroinformatics-unit/driftplots's past year of commit activity
    Python 2 MIT 0 4 1 Updated Oct 5, 2026