Handles probe layout, geometry, and wiring to device
built by guoguo
completed Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:41:03 UTC
Description
A Python package to handle the layout, geometry, and wiring of silicon probes
for extracellular electrophysiology experiments.
Goals
Make a lightweight package to handle:
• probe contact geometry (both 2D and 3D layouts)
• probe shape (contour of the probe, shape of channel contact, …)
• probe wiring to device (the physical layout often doesn’t match the channel
ordering)
• combining several probes into a device with global geometry + global wiring
• exporting probe geometry data into JSON files
• loading existing probe geometry files (Neuronexus, imec, Cambridge
Neurotech…) Started here
Bonus:
• optional plotting (based on matplotlib)
• load/save geometry using common formats (PRB, CSV, NWB, …)
• handle SI length units correctly um/mm/…
Target users/project:
• spikeinterface team: integrate this into spikeextractor for channel
location
• neo team: handle array_annotations for AnalogSignal
• spikeforest team: use this package for plotting probe activity
• phy team: integrate for probe display
• spyking-circus team: handle probe with this package
• kilosort team: handle probe with this package
• tridesclous team: handle probe with this package
• open ephys team: automatically generate channel map configuration files
RPMs
No RPMs
Changelog
* Fri Sep 19 2025 Python Maint <python-maint@redhat.com> - 0.2.28-5 - Rebuilt for Python 3.14.0rc3 bytecode * Fri Aug 15 2025 Python Maint <python-maint@redhat.com> - 0.2.28-4 - Rebuilt for Python 3.14.0rc2 bytecode * Fri Jul 25 2025 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.2.28-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_43_Mass_Rebuild * Fri Jun 06 2025 Python Maint <python-maint@redhat.com> - 0.2.28-2 - Rebuilt for Python 3.14 * Mon May 05 2025 Benjamin A. Beasley <code@musicinmybrain.net> - 0.2.28-1 - Update to 0.2.28 (close RHBZ#2364054) * Mon May 05 2025 Benjamin A. Beasley <code@musicinmybrain.net> - 0.2.27-1 - Update to 0.2.27 (close RHBZ#2364031) * Mon May 05 2025 Benjamin A. Beasley <code@musicinmybrain.net> - 0.2.26-3 - F41+: Use the provisional pyproject declarative buildsystem * Wed Mar 12 2025 Benjamin A. Beasley <code@musicinmybrain.net> - 0.2.26-2 - Add a weak dependency on python3-jsonschema - Remove testing workaround for formerly-missing JSON schema file * Wed Mar 12 2025 Benjamin A. Beasley <code@musicinmybrain.net> - 0.2.26-1 - Update to 0.2.26 (close RHBZ#2351534) * Fri Feb 07 2025 Benjamin A. Beasley <code@musicinmybrain.net> - 0.2.25-2 - Conditionalize Zarr BuildRequires and associated tests * Fri Feb 07 2025 Benjamin A. Beasley <code@musicinmybrain.net> - 0.2.25-1 - Update to 0.2.25 (close RHBZ#2344205) * Sat Jan 18 2025 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.2.24-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_42_Mass_Rebuild * Fri Sep 06 2024 Benjamin A. Beasley <code@musicinmybrain.net> - 0.2.24-1 - Update to 0.2.24 (close RHBZ#2310398) * Thu Jul 18 2024 Benjamin A. Beasley <code@musicinmybrain.net> - 0.2.23-1 - Update to 0.2.23 (close RHBZ#2298480) * Mon Jul 15 2024 Benjamin A. Beasley <code@musicinmybrain.net> - 0.2.22-1 - Update to 0.2.22 (close RHBZ#2297975) * Mon Jun 17 2024 Python Maint <python-maint@redhat.com> - 0.2.21-3 - Rebuilt for Python 3.13 * Mon Feb 05 2024 Benjamin A. Beasley <code@musicinmybrain.net> - 0.2.21-1 - Update to 0.2.21 (close RHBZ#2262778) * Fri Jan 26 2024 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.2.20-4 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild * Mon Jan 22 2024 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.2.20-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild * Mon Dec 18 2023 Benjamin A. Beasley <code@musicinmybrain.net> - 0.2.20-2 - Assert that %pyproject_files contains a license file * Tue Dec 12 2023 Benjamin A. Beasley <code@musicinmybrain.net> - 0.2.20-1 - Update to 0.2.20 (close RHBZ#2254044) * Thu Nov 02 2023 Benjamin A. Beasley <code@musicinmybrain.net> - 0.2.19-1 - Update to 0.2.19 * Tue Oct 31 2023 Benjamin A. Beasley <code@musicinmybrain.net> - 0.2.18-1 - Update to 0.2.18 (close RHBZ#2247108)