[Neuroimaging] [ANN] MNE-Python 1.0

Tue Mar 22 10:54:17 EDT 2022

Alex, the MEG/EEG field owes you a great debt. Software that is well
documented & that runs well is a rare gem... My congratulations to
you!!! 💐🎶📣  Aina

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 10:47 AM Franco Pestilli <pestilli at utexas.edu>
wrote:

> Congratulations Alex and team!
>
> Franco
>
> *FRANCO PESTILLI*, *Ph.D.* | *Associate Professor*
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>
> 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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