Neo 0.10.0 release notes#
27th July 2021
New IO modules#
OpenEphysIO
- handle the binary format
Bug fixes and improvements in IO modules#
NeuralynxIO
was refactored and now supports new file versions (neuraview) and single file loading.Legacy versions of old IOs were removed for NeuralynxIO (neuralynxio_v1), BlackrockIO, NeoHdf5IO.
NixIOfr
now supports array annotations ofAnalogSignal
objects.NSDFIO
was removed because we can no longer maintain it.all IOs now accept
pathlib.Path
objects.The IO modules of this release have been tested with version 0.1.0 of the ephy_testing_data.
Removal of Unit and ChannelIndex#
In version 0.9.0 Group
and ChannelView
were introduced, replacing Unit
and ChannelIndex
, which were deprecated.
In this version the deprecated Unit
and ChannelIndex
are removed and only the new Group
and ChannelView
objects are available.
Supported Python and NumPy versions#
We no longer support Python 3.6, nor versions of NumPy older than 1.16.
Other new or modified features#
Lists of
SpikeTrain
objects can now also be created from two arrays: one containing spike times and the other unit identities of the times (SpikeTrainList
).Object identity is now preserved when using utility
time_slice()
methods.
See all pull requests included in this release and the list of closed issues.
RawIO modules#
Internal refactoring of the neo.rawio module regarding channel grouping.
Now the concept of a signal stream is used to handle channel groups for signals.
This enhances the way the annotation
and array_annotation
attributes are rendered at neo.io level.
Acknowledgements#
Thanks to Samuel Garcia, Julia Sprenger, Peter N. Steinmetz, Andrew Davison, Steffen Bürgers, Regimantas Jurkus, Alessio Buccino, Shashwat Sridhar, Jeffrey Gill, Etienne Combrisson, Ben Dichter and Elodie Legouée for their contributions to this release.