MEF3 tools

The Multiscale Electrophysiology Format (MEF3) is a compressed, encrypted file format designed for large-scale, long-term electrophysiology recordings. BNEL develops and maintains an open Python and gRPC toolchain for working with MEF3 data, from low-level reading and writing to high-throughput streaming for viewers and data-processing applications.

mef3io

The current library for reading and writing MEF3 data in Python. Replaces mef_tools.

https://bnelair.github.io/mef3io/

mef3io-server

A gRPC server for efficient, concurrent streaming of MEF3 data, with pre-caching for viewers and data-processing applications.

https://bnelair.github.io/mef3io-server/

mef3io

mef3io is the recommended library for reading and writing MEF3 data in Python. It is the successor to mef_tools and the starting point for new projects that work with MEF3 files.

• Documentation: https://bnelair.github.io/mef3io/

• Repository: bnelair/mef3io

mef3io-server

mef3io-server is a gRPC server for efficient, concurrent streaming of MEF3 electrophysiology data. It is aimed at scenarios that need fast, repeated access to large recordings, in particular:

• pre-caching in viewers, so that scrolling and paging through long recordings stays responsive, and

• data-processing applications, where many workers stream overlapping segments concurrently.

• Documentation: https://bnelair.github.io/mef3io-server/

• Repository: bnelair/mef3io-server

Deprecated and legacy

Warning

mef_tools is deprecated and kept as an archive for legacy support only. It is no longer actively developed. New projects should use mef3io (and mef3io-server where streaming is needed) instead.

mef_tools was the original high-level BNEL library for reading and writing MEF3 files. It builds on the upstream pymef/meflib stack. Existing code that depends on it will continue to work, but it will not receive new features. The components below are listed for legacy context:

• mef_tools (archived) — high-level read/write library, BNEL: bnelair/mef_tools

• pymef — Python wrapper for the MEF library, upstream (msel-source): msel-source/pymef

• meflib — the underlying MEF C library, upstream (msel-source): msel-source/meflib