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 and contribute to various Sainsbury Wellcome Centre and other open-source tools.

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movement movement Public

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

Python 215 81
NeuroBlueprint NeuroBlueprint Public

Lightweight data specification for systems neuroscience, inspired by BIDS.

19 4
datashuttle datashuttle Public

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

Python 30 30
python-cookiecutter python-cookiecutter Public

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

Python 35 5
fancylog fancylog Public

Fancier logging with python.

Python 14 11
spikewrap spikewrap Public

A package to manage electrophysiology analysis.

Python 22 15

Repositories

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 22, 2025
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 20 29 14 Updated Dec 22, 2025
movement Public
A Python toolbox for analysing animal body movements across space and time

neuroinformatics-unit/movement’s past year of commit activity

Python 215 BSD-3-Clause 81 111 (2 issues need help) 16 Updated Dec 22, 2025
spikewrap Public
A package to manage electrophysiology analysis.

neuroinformatics-unit/spikewrap’s past year of commit activity

Python 22 BSD-3-Clause 15 21 5 Updated Dec 22, 2025
datashuttle Public
Tool for the creation, validation and transfer of neuroscience project folders.

neuroinformatics-unit/datashuttle’s past year of commit activity

Python 30 BSD-3-Clause 30 53 (6 issues need help) 16 Updated Dec 19, 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 17, 2025
actions Public
Re-usable GitHub Action scripts

neuroinformatics-unit/actions’s past year of commit activity

13 MIT 4 8 0 Updated Dec 17, 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
neuroinformatics-unit.github.io Public
Home website of the Neuroinformatics Unit

neuroinformatics-unit/neuroinformatics-unit.github.io’s past year of commit activity

12 BSD-3-Clause 3 7 0 Updated Dec 16, 2025