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+            "affiliation": "Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany",
+            "name": "Denker, Michael"
+        },
+        {
+            "orcid": "0000-0001-7292-1982",
+            "affiliation": "Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany",
+            "name": "Kern, Moritz"
+        },
+        {
+            "orcid": "0009-0003-9352-9826",
+            "affiliation": "BioMEMS Lab, University of Applied Sciences Aschaffenburg, Germany",
+            "name": "Richter, Felician"
+        }
+    ],
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+    "title": "Elephant 1.1.0b1",
+
+    "keywords": [
+    "neuroscience",
+    "neurophysiology",
+    "electrophysiology",
+    "statistics",
+    "data-analysis"
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+    },
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-type: software
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-    family-names: Denker
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-      Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and
-      Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and
-      JARA-Institute Brain Structure-Function Relationships
-      (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany
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-    family-names: Kern
-    affiliation: >-
-      Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and
-      Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and
-      JARA-Institute Brain Structure-Function Relationships
-      (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany
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-    description: Concept of publication
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-url: 'http://python-elephant.org'
-keywords:
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-  - neurophysiology
-  - electrophysiology
-  - statistics
-  - data-analysis
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-date-released: '2023-11-10'
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