000204970 001__ 204970 000204970 005__ 20240313103111.0 000204970 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.3389/fninf.2015.00011 000204970 0247_ $$2Handle$$a2128/9323 000204970 0247_ $$2WOS$$aWOS:000370604400001 000204970 0247_ $$2altmetric$$aaltmetric:4062896 000204970 0247_ $$2pmid$$apmid:25926788 000204970 037__ $$aFZJ-2015-05501 000204970 082__ $$a610 000204970 1001_ $$0P:(DE-HGF)0$$aMuller, Eilif$$b0 000204970 245__ $$aPython in neuroscience 000204970 260__ $$aLausanne$$bFrontiers Research Foundation$$c2015 000204970 3367_ $$0PUB:(DE-HGF)16$$2PUB:(DE-HGF)$$aJournal Article$$bjournal$$mjournal$$s1443614516_3797 000204970 3367_ $$2DataCite$$aOutput Types/Journal article 000204970 3367_ $$00$$2EndNote$$aJournal Article 000204970 3367_ $$2BibTeX$$aARTICLE 000204970 3367_ $$2ORCID$$aJOURNAL_ARTICLE 000204970 3367_ $$2DRIVER$$aarticle 000204970 520__ $$aThis Research Topic of Frontiers in Neuroinformatics is dedicated to the memory of Rolf Kötter (1961–2010), who was the Frontiers Associate Editor responsible for this Research Topic, and who gave us considerable support and encouragement during the process of conceiving and launching the Topic, and throughout the reviewing process.Computation is becoming essential across all sciences, for data acquisition and analysis, automation, and hypothesis testing via modeling and simulation. As a consequence, software development is becoming a critical scientific activity. Training of scientists in programming, software development, and computational thinking (Wilson, 2006), choice of tools, community-building and interoperability are all issues that should be addressed, if we wish to accelerate scientific progress while maintaining standards of correctness and reproducibility.The Python programming language in particular has seen a surge in popularity across the sciences, for reasons which include its readability, modularity, and large standard library. The use of Python as a scientific programming language began to increase with the development of numerical libraries for optimized operations on large arrays in the late 1990s, in which an important development was the merging of the competing Numeric and Numarray packages in 2006 to form NumPy (Oliphant, 2007). As Python and NumPy have gained traction in a given scientific domain, we have seen the emergence of domain-specific ecosystems of open-source Python software developed by scientists. It became clear to us in 2007 that we were on the cusp of an emerging Python in neuroscience ecosystem, particularly in computational neuroscience and neuroimaging, but also in electrophysiological data analysis and in psychophysics.Two major strengths of Python are its modularity and ability to easily “glue” together different programming languages, which together facilitate the interaction of modular components and their composition into larger systems. This focus on reusable components, which has proven its value in commercial and open-source software development (Brooks, 1987), is, we contend, essential for scientific computing in neuroscience, if we are to cope with the increasingly large amounts of data being produced in experimental labs, and if we wish to understand and model the brain in all its complexity. 000204970 536__ $$0G:(DE-HGF)POF3-574$$a574 - Theory, modelling and simulation (POF3-574)$$cPOF3-574$$fPOF III$$x0 000204970 536__ $$0G:(DE-HGF)POF3-573$$a573 - Neuroimaging (POF3-573)$$cPOF3-573$$fPOF III$$x1 000204970 536__ $$0G:(DE-HGF)POF3-571$$a571 - Connectivity and Activity (POF3-571)$$cPOF3-571$$fPOF III$$x2 000204970 588__ $$aDataset connected to CrossRef 000204970 7001_ $$0P:(DE-HGF)0$$aBednar, James A.$$b1 000204970 7001_ $$0P:(DE-Juel1)144174$$aDiesmann, Markus$$b2 000204970 7001_ $$0P:(DE-HGF)0$$aGewaltig, Marc-Oliver$$b3 000204970 7001_ $$0P:(DE-HGF)0$$aHines, Michael$$b4 000204970 7001_ $$0P:(DE-HGF)0$$aDavison, Andrew P.$$b5$$eCorresponding author 000204970 773__ $$0PERI:(DE-600)2452979-5$$a10.3389/fninf.2015.00011$$gVol. 9$$p11$$tFrontiers in neuroinformatics$$v9$$x1662-5196$$y2015 000204970 8564_ $$uhttps://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/204970/files/fninf-09-00011.pdf$$yOpenAccess 000204970 8564_ $$uhttps://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/204970/files/fninf-09-00011.gif?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yOpenAccess 000204970 8564_ $$uhttps://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/204970/files/fninf-09-00011.jpg?subformat=icon-1440$$xicon-1440$$yOpenAccess 000204970 8564_ $$uhttps://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/204970/files/fninf-09-00011.jpg?subformat=icon-180$$xicon-180$$yOpenAccess 000204970 8564_ $$uhttps://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/204970/files/fninf-09-00011.jpg?subformat=icon-640$$xicon-640$$yOpenAccess 000204970 8564_ $$uhttps://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/204970/files/fninf-09-00011.pdf?subformat=pdfa$$xpdfa$$yOpenAccess 000204970 909CO $$ooai:juser.fz-juelich.de:204970$$pdnbdelivery$$pVDB$$pdriver$$popen_access$$popenaire 000204970 9101_ $$0I:(DE-588b)5008462-8$$6P:(DE-Juel1)144174$$aForschungszentrum Jülich GmbH$$b2$$kFZJ 000204970 9131_ $$0G:(DE-HGF)POF3-574$$1G:(DE-HGF)POF3-570$$2G:(DE-HGF)POF3-500$$3G:(DE-HGF)POF3$$4G:(DE-HGF)POF$$aDE-HGF$$bKey Technologies$$lDecoding the Human Brain$$vTheory, modelling and simulation$$x0 000204970 9131_ $$0G:(DE-HGF)POF3-573$$1G:(DE-HGF)POF3-570$$2G:(DE-HGF)POF3-500$$3G:(DE-HGF)POF3$$4G:(DE-HGF)POF$$aDE-HGF$$bKey Technologies$$lDecoding the Human Brain$$vNeuroimaging$$x1 000204970 9131_ $$0G:(DE-HGF)POF3-571$$1G:(DE-HGF)POF3-570$$2G:(DE-HGF)POF3-500$$3G:(DE-HGF)POF3$$4G:(DE-HGF)POF$$aDE-HGF$$bKey Technologies$$lDecoding the Human Brain$$vConnectivity and Activity$$x2 000204970 9141_ $$y2015 000204970 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)0200$$2StatID$$aDBCoverage$$bSCOPUS 000204970 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)1050$$2StatID$$aDBCoverage$$bBIOSIS Previews 000204970 915__ $$0LIC:(DE-HGF)CCBY4$$2HGFVOC$$aCreative Commons Attribution CC BY 4.0 000204970 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)0100$$2StatID$$aJCR$$bFRONT NEUROINFORM : 2014 000204970 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)0500$$2StatID$$aDBCoverage$$bDOAJ 000204970 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)0111$$2StatID$$aWoS$$bScience Citation Index Expanded 000204970 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)0150$$2StatID$$aDBCoverage$$bWeb of Science Core Collection 000204970 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)9900$$2StatID$$aIF < 5 000204970 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)0510$$2StatID$$aOpenAccess 000204970 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)0300$$2StatID$$aDBCoverage$$bMedline 000204970 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)0199$$2StatID$$aDBCoverage$$bThomson Reuters Master Journal List 000204970 9201_ $$0I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-6-20130828$$kIAS-6$$lTheoretical Neuroscience$$x0 000204970 9201_ $$0I:(DE-Juel1)INM-6-20090406$$kINM-6$$lComputational and Systems Neuroscience$$x1 000204970 9801_ $$aFullTexts 000204970 980__ $$ajournal 000204970 980__ $$aVDB 000204970 980__ $$aUNRESTRICTED 000204970 980__ $$aI:(DE-Juel1)IAS-6-20130828 000204970 980__ $$aI:(DE-Juel1)INM-6-20090406 000204970 981__ $$aI:(DE-Juel1)IAS-6-20130828 000204970 981__ $$aI:(DE-Juel1)INM-6-20090406