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@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ PySpike :target: https://travis-ci.org/mariomulansky/PySpike PySpike is a Python library for the numerical analysis of spike train similarity. -Its core functionality is the implementation of the bivariate ISI_ and SPIKE_ distance [#]_ [#]_ as well as SPIKE-Synchronization_ [#]_. -Additionally, it provides functions to compute multivariate profiles, distance matrices, as well as averaging and general spike train processing. +Its core functionality is the implementation of the ISI_ and SPIKE_ distance [#]_ [#]_ as well as SPIKE-Synchronization_ [#]_. +It provides functions to compute multivariate profiles, distance matrices, as well as averaging and general spike train processing. All computation intensive parts are implemented in C via cython_ to reach a competitive performance (factor 100-200 over plain Python). PySpike provides the same fundamental functionality as the SPIKY_ framework for Matlab, which additionally contains spike-train generators, more spike train distance measures and many visualization routines. @@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ All source codes are available on `Github <https://github.com/mariomulansky/PySp Important Changelog ----------------------------- +With version 0.5.0, the interfaces have been unified and the specific functions for multivariate computations have become deprecated. + With version 0.2.0, the :code:`SpikeTrain` class has been introduced to represent spike trains. This is a breaking change in the function interfaces. Hence, programs written for older versions of PySpike (0.1.x) will not run with newer versions. @@ -76,7 +78,7 @@ Therefore, add your :code:`/path/to/PySpike` to the :code:`$PYTHONPATH` environm Examples ----------------------------- -The following code loads some exemplary spike trains, computes the dissimilarity profile of the ISI-distance of the first two :code:`SpikeTrain` s, and plots it with matplotlib: +The following code loads some exemplary spike trains, computes the dissimilarity profile of the ISI-distance of the first two :code:`SpikeTrain` objects, and plots it with matplotlib: .. code:: python @@ -92,15 +94,15 @@ The following code loads some exemplary spike trains, computes the dissimilarity plt.show() -The following example computes the multivariate ISI-, SPIKE- and SPIKE-Sync-profile for a list of spike trains using the :code:`isi_profile_multi`, :code:`spike_profile_multi`, :code:`spike_sync_profile_multi` functions: +The following example computes the multivariate ISI-, SPIKE- and SPIKE-Sync-profile for a list of spike trains loaded from a text file: .. code:: python spike_trains = spk.load_spike_trains_from_txt("PySpike_testdata.txt", edges=(0, 4000)) - avrg_isi_profile = spk.isi_profile_multi(spike_trains) - avrg_spike_profile = spk.spike_profile_multi(spike_trains) - avrg_spike_sync_profile = spk.spike_sync_profile_multi(spike_trains) + avrg_isi_profile = spk.isi_profile(spike_trains) + avrg_spike_profile = spk.spike_profile(spike_trains) + avrg_spike_sync_profile = spk.spike_sync_profile(spike_trains) More examples with detailed descriptions can be found in the `tutorial section <http://mariomulansky.github.io/PySpike/#tutorial>`_. |