I work for the G-Node (GitHub/G-Node) at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Projects

Brief descriptions of all G-Node projects can be found on the G-Node projects page.

My work consists of maintaining and developing the following projects:

• GIN: Data hosting service for scientific data.
• GIN CLI: Command line client for the GIN service.
• NIXPy: Python implementation of the NIX format library, an open format for neuroscientific data.

GIN

GIN is a data hosting platform based on GOGS, an open source hosted Git service. Our implementation adds support for versioning data using Git-annex. It supports versioning, collaboration, indexing and search, and publication of scientific data.

We also provide a command line client (GIN CLI) that simplifies common Git and Git-annex operations.

• Main service website: gin.g-node.org
• Source code: GitHub/G-Node/gogs
• GIN CLI installation instructions: GIN Wiki/GinCliSetup
• GIN CLI source code: GitHub/G-Node/gin-cli
• Publishing service source code: GitHub/G-Node/gin-doi
• Indexing and search service source code: GitHub/G-Node/gin-dex

NIXPy

NIX is an open source format and library for storing neuroscientific data. The main reference implementation is called NIXIO. NIXPy is a Python implementation of the reference spec.

NIX also serves as one of the storage backends for NEO, a package for representing electrophysiology data in Python. The Neo NIX I/O creates a route for raw data in various proprietary and open formats to be converted to the open NIX format via the NEO data structures.

• NIXPy documentation: g-node.github.io/nixpy
• NIXPy source code: GitHub/G-Node/nixpy
• Neo documentation: neo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• Neo source code: GitHub/NeuralEnsemble/python-neo