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Neuroinformatics Unit
Open-source tools for neuroscience and ML
The Neuroinformatics Unit 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 neuroscience research and make new algorithms and tools available to the global community.
- python
- numpy
- pytorch
- Scipy
- napari
- visualization
- neuroscience
- data-science
- Computer-Vision
- neuroanatomy
Project ideas
10 ideas on its 2026 ideas page; of the 10 that state a difficulty: 10 medium. Sizes: 1 small, 2 medium, 7 large. 6 mentors named.
- Miscellaneous maintenance work on BrainGlobe overall infrastructure large medium
- Refactor brainglobe-heatmap to use atlas annotations rather than mesh slices for visualisation small medium
- Improving the user experience in brainrender-napari large medium
- Expand cellfinder to accept different types of input data (several or single channels, 2.5 dimension large medium
- Adding I/O support for formats used in human motion tracking large medium
- Adding I/O support for popular animal tracking software large medium
- Adding support for tracked segmentation masks large medium
- Adding a module for trajectory complexity metrics medium medium
- Adding a module for metrics of collective behaviour medium medium
- Expanding annotations support in ethology large medium
Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.
History
In GSoC since 2025, 2 years. Projects per year: '25: 2, '26: 3.
On GitHub
43 repositories pushed to in the last year. Main languages: Python (20), TeX (6), Jupyter Notebook (4), Lua (2), JavaScript (1), SCSS (1).
Links and channels
- Website: https://neuroinformatics.dev
- Ideas page: https://neuroinformatics.dev/get-involved/gsoc/2026
- Contributor guide: https://neuroinformatics.dev/get-involved/gsoc/guidelines
- Source code: https://github.com/neuroinformatics-unit
- Email: hello@neuroinformatics.dev
- Chat: https://neuroinformatics.zulipchat.com
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