The Neural Ensemble Cookbook

An open repository of idioms and recipies pertaining to Neuroscience, with a twist of Python.

Recipies

• Recipe_csv2hdf5 - Converting a tab/comma seperated table of values in a text file to hdf5

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Tutorials

FacetsPythonCourse2008 - The FACETS/BCCN-Freiburg Student Python course material

Numpy for MATLAB users:

• http://mathesaurus.sourceforge.net/matlab-numpy.html
• http://www.scipy.org/NumPy_for_Matlab_Users
• Reading Matlab .mat files in Python recipe (Scipy Cookbook).

Simulators

• Brian
• NEURON + Python

Software Installation

Step by step instructions how to install tricky packages

InstallMayaVI2 - 3D plotting package from enthought

Miscellaneous

MecurialTips - Some helpful tips+tricks for using Mercurial/hg, a distributed revision control system improving on subversion.