0.4.0_tasks

0.4.0 Tasks

Planned tasks and features for 0.4.0

API changes

• harmonize data classes (AnalogSignal, SpikeTrain, Event and Epoch): have quantities attributes or inherits quantities.
• Rename AnalogSignalArray to AnalogSignal, EpochArray to Epoch, EventArray to Event. Remove the original, 1D AnalogSignal, Epoch and Event classes.
• Remove the Spike class.
• Remove the RecordingChannel class, and replace lists of RecordingChannels with a modified/repurposed RecordingChannelGroup.
• Rename RecordingChannelGroup to ChannelIndex.
• Attach units directly to Block.
• Implement SpikeTrain.waveforms attribute as an AnalogSignal. So remove SpikeTrain.sampling_rate, SpikeTrain.left_sweep

Implementation

• Move all relationship information from neo.description into the neo.core classes.
• Deprecate or remove neo.description.
• AnalogSignal, Epoch, Event, IrregularlySampledSignal, and SpikeTrain all derive from a NeoArray base class
• Block, Segment, RecordingChannelGroup (ChannelIndex), and Unit all derive from a NeoContainer base class.
• Implement all attributes as properties, with built-in compliance testing.
• Move mathematics, slicing, and time methods into NeoArray. IrregularlySampledSignal and SpikeTrain override them.
• Move merge() method into BaseNeo.
• Implement annotation merging in merge().
• Implement automatic parent/child relationship generation in NeoContainer.
• Implement recursive and non-recursive child listing and filtering generically in NeoContainer.

neo.io

• Python 3.x compatibility for all IO classes.
• PEP8 compliance for all IO classes.
• add stream reading where possible (HDF, ..) in the API.
• change the formalism for parameters description. pyqtgraph use a simple way to do it with list and dict only. we propose to use the same.

Neo Documentation

• Revamp the Neo documentation.