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Relevant Software

EDFBrowser

EDFBrowser (developed by Teunis van Beelen) is a free, open-source, viewer/toolbox for EEG/IEEG data. It is a great tool to use when attempting to organize your input directory for data2bids.

Windows

For 64-bit windows download this file.

For 32-bit Windows download this file.

Mac

You can download the latests .dmg file from this website.

Linux

To install on Linux, you must first have the dependencies installed (g++, Qt5):

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install g++ make git qtbase5-dev-tools qtbase5-dev qt5-default

Then enter the following commands to download and install:

git clone https://gitlab.com/Teuniz/EDFbrowser.git
cd EDFbrowser
qmake
make -j4
sudo make install
edfbrowser

General Purpose Tools

Note

The following summary was compiled by TomDonoghue , in this GitHub repository.

The following are general purpose platforms, with functionality including: loading data, preprocessing, visualization, standard analysis, and making figures.

MNE

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MNE is a general purpose tool for processing, analyzing, and visualizing M/EEG data.

HomePage - Github - Paper

Neural Ensemble Tools

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Neural Ensemble is an initiative for open-source software in neuroscience and includes a set of tools for managing and analyzing electrophysiology data.

neo is a tool for representing electrophysiology data, and reading neurophysiological file formats.

HomePage - Github

elephant is a tool for analyzing electrophysiological data.

HomePage - Github

Wonambi

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Wonambi is a general purpose tool for processing, analyzing, and visualizing EEG data, including specific tools focused on sleep scoring and analysis.

HomePage - Github

NeuroKit2

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NeuroKit2 is a tool for neurophysiological signal processing.

HomePage - Github

FieldTrip

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FieldTrip is a general purpose tool for processing, analyzing, and visualizing M/EEG and iEEG/ECoG data.

HomePage - Github - Paper

BrainStorm

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BrainStorm is a general purpose tool for processing, analyzing and visualizing focused primarily on MEG data, with additional support for EEG & ECoG data.

HomePage - Github - Paper

EEGLab

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EEGLab is a general purpose tool for processing, analyzing, and visualizing EEG data.

HomePage - Paper

SPM

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SPM is a general purpose toolbox for neuroimaging, including support for processing M/EEG data.

HomePage

NutMEG

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NutMEG is a general purpose tool for processing, analyzing, and visualizing MEG data.

HomePage - Github - Paper

Signaleeg

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Signaleeg is a general purpose tool for processing and analyzing EEG data, with a focus on signal-data mining.

Code - Paper

BBCI - Berlin brain-computer interface

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The BBCI tool is collection of tools for online and offline analyses for brain-computer interface experiments.

Github - Paper

EEGUtils

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EEGUtils is a general purpose tool for processing, analyzing, and visualizing EEG data.

HomePage - Github

EEGuana

EEGuana is a package for working with EEG data.

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HomePage - Github

EEG.jl

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EEG.jl is library for processing EEG data.

HomePage - Github

CarTool

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CarTool is an EEG analysis toolbox.

HomePage - Paper

Standalone Tools

The following are standalone tools, independent of general software platforms, for specific purposes.

NeuroDSP

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NeuroDSP is a package for calculating a broad range of measures on neural time series, including a range of time-domain measures such as waveform shape analyses.

Homepage - Github - Paper

SpecParam (formerly 'fooof')

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SpecParam (formerly called fooof) is a package for parameterizing neural power spectra.

Homepage - Github - Paper

ByCycle

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ByCycle is a tool for cycle-by-cycle analyses of neural oscillations.

Homepage - Github - Paper

IRASA

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A Python implementation of the 'irregular resampling auto-spectral analysis'. Note that this is a re-implementation of the algorithm described in the paper.

Github - Paper

Frites - Framework for Information Theoretic analysis of Electrophysiological data and Statistics

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FRITES is package for computing information-theoretic measures on human and electrophysiological data.

Homepage - Github

Antropy

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Antropy is a package for computing entropy and complexity measures on EEG data.

Homepage - Github

PTSA - Python Time Series Analysis

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PTSA is package for time series analysis in Python, focused on analyzing electrophysiological data.

Homepage - Github

GhostiPy - General Hub Of Spectral Techniques In Python

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Ghostipy is a toolbox for signal processing and spectral analyses.

Github - Paper

Spectral Connectivity

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Spectral Connectivity is a package for functional connectivity and coherence related measures.

HomePage - Github

Brain Connectivity Toolbox for Python

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The Brain Connectivity Toolbox is a package for brain connectivity measures.

Github

Tensor PAC

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TensorPAC is a tool for calculating phase-amplitude coupling measures, using tensors and parallel computing.

HomePage - Github - Paper

PACTools

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PACTools is a package for calculating phase-amplitude coupling measures in neural time series.

HomePage - Github

PyEEG

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PyEEG includes some implementations of information theoretic and complexity related measures for neural time series.

Github - Paper

ECoGTools

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ECoGTools is a collection of tools for analyzing ECoG data.

Github

EELBrain

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EELBrain is a tool for statistical analysis of M/EEG data.

HomePage - Github - Paper

YASA - Yet another spindle algorithm

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YASA is a package for analyzing polysomnograghy recordings.

HomePage - Github

kCSD - kernel Current Source Density

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The kCSD tool implements kernel Current Source Density.

HomePage - Github - Paper

EMD - Empirical Mode Decomposition

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The EMD toolbox implements empirical mode decomposition and Hilbert-Huang spectral analyses.

HomePage - Code - Paper

eBOSC - extended Better OSCillation detector

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eBOSC is a tool for oscillation detection and measurement.

Github - Paper

BEST - Brain Electrophysiological recording & STimulation

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BEST is a tool for designing and running non-invasive brain stimulation experiments.

Homepage - Github - Paper

restingIAF

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RestingIAF is a tool for estimating the peak individual alpha frequency.

Github - Paper

Phase Opposition Code

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Phase Opposition is a collection of functions for calculating phase opposition measures.

HomePage - Paper

ADAM - Amsterdam Decoding and Modeling Toolbox

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ADAM is a tool for encoding and decoding model analysis on M/EEG data.

Github - Paper

HERMES

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HERMES is tool for estimating connectivity measures between M/EEG signals.

HomePage - Github - Paper

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SEREEGA is a package for simulating synthetic data that mimic event-related EEG activity.

Github - Paper

UNFOLD

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Unfold is a tool for deconvolving overlapping EEG signals and for non-linear modeling.

HomePage - Github - Paper

ept-TFCE

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ept-TFCE is a tool for statistical analysis of already preprocessed M/EEG data, focused mainly around the 'threshold-free cluster enhancement' method.

Github - Paper

ERA - ERP Reliability Analysis

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ERA is a tool for calculating reliability estimates for ERP data.

HomePage - Github - Paper

SynchSqueezing

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SynchroSqueezing is a tool for time-frequency and time-scale analyses.

Github

AutoMagic

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AutoMagic is a standardized toolbox for preprocessing EEG datasets.

Github - Paper

MVGC - Multivariate Granger Causality Toolbox

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The MVGC toolbox is designed to run Granger-causal analysis on multivariate time-series data.

HomePage - Code - Paper

OpenMEEG

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OpemMEEG is a package for solving forward problems for EEG & MEG data.

HomePage - Github - Paper

Plugins

The following are plugins, designed primary for use with one of the aforementioned general purpose tools.

AutoReject

Language PlugIn

AutoReject is a tool for preprocessing M/EEG data, but algorithmically determining and applying rejection thresholds, with MNE.

HomePage - Github - Paper

MNE-BIDS

Language PlugIn

MNE-BIDS is a tool for creating BIDS compatible datasets with MNE.

HomePage - Github - Paper

PyPREP

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PrPREP is an implementation of the 'Preprocessing Pipeline' (PREP) for EEG data, in Python and using MNE.

Homepage - Github

PREP Pipeline

Language PlugIn

The PREP pipeline is a standardized pre-processing tool for EEG data, using EEGLab.

HomePage - Github - Paper

RELAX

Language PlugIn

RELAX (Reduction of Electroencephalographic Artifacts) provides a fully automated method to clean EEG data.

Github - Paper1 - Paper2

ADJUST

Language PlugIn

ADJUST is an automatic artifact identification and removal tool, using EEGLab.

HomePage - Paper

ERPlab

Language PlugIn

ERPLab is a tool for event-related potential (ERP) analysis of EEG data, with EEGLab.

HomePage - Github - Paper

LIMO - Linear Modeling

Language PlugIn

LIMO is a tool for Linear Modeling of EEG data, with EEGLab.

HomePage - Github - Paper

SIFT - Source Information Flow Toolbox

Language PlugIn

SIFT is a tool for causality and information flow measures, with EEGLab.

HomePage

MPT - Measure Projection Toolbox

Language PlugIn

MPT is a tool for probabilistic multi-subject EEG independent component analysis, with EEGLab.

HomePage

Neuro Tools

The following are broader purpose neuro-tools that could be used with electrophysiology data.

nibabel

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nibabel is a tool for read/write access to common neuroimaging file formats.

HomePage - Github

nilearn

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nilearn is a tool for applying machine learning to neuroimaging data.

HomePage - Github

Visbrain

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Visbrain is a tool for brain data visualization.

Homepage - Github

PyCortex

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PyCortex is a tool for visualizing cortical surfaces.

Homepage - Github

BrainSpace

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BrainSpace is a tool for analyzing gradients in neuroimaging datasets.

HomePage - Github - Paper

neuromaps

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neuromaps is a tool for comparing between brain maps.

HomePage - Github - Paper