[Neuroimaging] [ANN] MNE-Python 1.0

Tue Mar 22 10:47:27 EDT 2022

Congratulations Alex and team!

Franco

*FRANCO PESTILLI*, *Ph.D.* | *Associate Professor*
Department of Psychology
<https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/psychology/index.php> | College of Liberal
Arts <https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/> | The University of Texas at Austin
<https://www.utexas.edu/>
he/him | pestilli at utexas.edu | web
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<https://github.com/francopestilli> | brainlife.io

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 4:49 AM Alexandre Gramfort <
alexandre.gramfort at inria.fr> wrote:

> [Cross-posting with:
> https://mne.discourse.group/t/mne-python-is-turning-1-0/4595]
>
> 🎂 MNE-Python is turning 1.0...
>
> In December 2010, freshly arrived in Boston to work as a postdoc at the
> Martinos Center with Matti Hamalainen, I started the MNE-Python project
> with NIH funding. Inspired by my early open-source development efforts on
> scikit-learn, I wanted to “replicate the scikit-learn model” for the field
> of MEG/EEG data analysis. I wanted to create a Python project developed in
> the open – on GitHub, with the support of a distributed community of
> contributors willing to give a bit of their time to share what works for
> them (and what doesn’t!). Very importantly, what I wanted was to encourage
> people outside of the Martinos Center at MGH to contribute to the
> MNE-Python code while getting public credit for their work. Before
> attracting users I needed to find contributors... and for this I needed to
> convince them that MNE-Python was not simply my own personal pet project,
> but rather something that belongs to its contributors.
>
> It has now been more than 11 years since MNE-Python was started, and as of
> now 285 contributors distributed all over the world have made MNE-Python a
> mature and successful project. This long effort has also been made possible
> by the sustained funding from NIH in the USA, as well as the ERC and ANR
> funding agencies in Europe and France. Now, we believe it’s finally time
> for MNE-Python to grow up and turn 1.0! 🎂
>
> I am particularly grateful first to Matti Hamalainen for teaching me so
> much about MEG and providing the groundwork with the MNE-C code he made
> public in 2006. MNE-C had already started the worldwide MNE project before
> MNE-Python was conceived.
>
> I am looking forward to seeing how MNE-Python will evolve in the future –
> and let’s see if we’ll wait 11 more years for version 2.0… 😇
>
> Alex
>
>
> --- Release notes ---
>
> A few highlights
>
> ============
>
>
>    -
>
>    📦 New standalone installers for macOS, Windows, and Linux should make
>    onboarding of new users much easier and allow for offline installations!
>    Download from https://mne.tools/stable/install/installers.html
>    -
>
>    📈 A new viewer for Raw, Epoched, Evoked, and ICA data makes
>    interactive data exploration much easier and smoother. See
>    https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-qt-browser
>    -
>
>    🧠 We redesigned and decluttered large parts of the coregistration GUI
>    to make it easier for you to find the functionality you’re looking for!
>    -
>
>    📒 We also added numerous improvements to Reports, including a drastic
>    speedup of Raw data plots.
>    -
>
>    📍 Lastly, the iEEG contact localization GUI has seen a number of
>    improvements, too.
>
>
>
> Notable API changes
>
> ================
>
> We have changed a few things that will require you to adjust your code.
>
>
>    -
>
>    The verbose attribute of classes (e.g., mne.io.Raw, mne.Epochs, etc.)
>    has been deprecated. Explicitly pass verbose to methods as necessary
>    instead.
>    -
>
>    In mne.viz.set_browser_backend(), the mne-qt-browser-based backend is
>    now called 'qt' rather than 'pyqtgraph' for simplicity.
>    -
>
>    mne.Info.pick_channels has been deprecated. Use inst.pick_channels to
>    pick channels from Raw, Epochs, and Evoked.
>    -
>
>    All data_path functions now return modern pathlib.Path objects rather
>    than strings.
>    -
>
>    The argument name event_list has been deprecated in favor of events in
>    mne.write_events()
>    -
>
>    The max_ori_out parameter of mne.beamformer.apply_lcmv() and related
>    functions is being removed as only signed estimates are supported.
>
>
> Full list of API changes:
>
> https://mne.tools/stable/whats_new.html#api-changes
>
>
> Full changelog
>
> ===========
>
> For a full list of improvements and API changes, see:
>
> https://mne.tools/stable/whats_new.html#version-1-0
>
> Find the full documentation at https://mne.tools/
> <https://mne.tools/stable/index.html>
>
> Installing the new release
>
> ===================
>
> Since quite a few things – including dependencies – have changed, we
> recommend creating a new environment with a “fresh” installation.
>
> Or if you fancy, download one of our fresh and shiny new installers!
>
> Visit https://mne.tools/stable/install
> <https://mne.tools/stable/install/index.html> for instructions and
> download links.
>
> Feedback
>
> ========
>
> If you have any questions or discovered a problem, please feel free to
> reach out to us on the MNE Forum: https://mne.discourse.group
>
> As usual, we welcome your bug reports, feature requests, critiques, and,
> of course, new contributions. 😁 Development takes place on GitHub. If you
> would like to contribute, star ⭐ the project, or just take a peek at the
> code, visit https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-python.
>
> You may follow us on Twitter, too: https://twitter.com/mne_news
>
> We hope you will enjoy the new features and many, many small improvements
> we have added, and are looking forward to receiving your feedback.
>
> Stay safe and take care!
>
> The MNE-Python developers
>
>
> Contributors
>
> ==========
>
> MNE-Python is a community-driven project. We are always very happy to
> welcome new contributors of code and documentation! 33 people contributed
> to this release – and 10 were first-timers! Thank you all so very much for
> your time and effort, we truly appreciate it!
>
> First-time contributors:
>
>
>    -
>
>    Adina Wagner
>    -
>
>    Etienne de Montalivet
>    -
>
>    Federico Zamberlan
>    -
>
>    Jan Zerfowski
>    -
>
>    John Veillette
>    -
>
>    Matthias Eberlein
>    -
>
>    Michiru Kaneda
>    -
>
>    Nikolai Chapochnikov
>    -
>
>    Scott Huberty
>    -
>
>    Senwen Deng
>
>
> Recurring contributors:
>
>
>    -
>
>    Adam Li
>    -
>
>    Alex Rockhill
>    -
>
>    Alexandre Gramfort
>    -
>
>    Britta Westner
>    -
>
>    Clemens Brunner
>    -
>
>    Daniel McCloy
>    -
>
>    Eduard Ort
>    -
>
>    Eric Larson
>    -
>
>    Guillaume Favelier
>    -
>
>    Jan Sosulski
>    -
>
>    Jeff Stout
>    -
>
>    Joshua Teves
>    -
>
>    Julia Guiomar Niso Galán
>    -
>
>    Luke Bloy
>    -
>
>    Marijn van Vliet
>    -
>
>    Martin Schulz
>    -
>
>    Mathieu Scheltienne
>    -
>
>    Mikołaj Magnuski
>    -
>
>    Richard Höchenberger
>    -
>
>    Robert Luke
>    -
>
>    Stefan Appelhoff
>    -
>
>    Steve Matindi
>    -
>
>    Thomas Hartmann
>
>
>
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