precosyne-brainhack-2026

Curated answers for the CON²PHYS hackathon 2026, which investigates how methodological choices impact scientific conclusions when analyzing identical electrophysiology data.

Questions

• Question 1
• Question 2
• Question 3
• Question 4

Our software

• pynapple
• NeMoS

Installation

1. Install pynapple and NeMoS

pip install pynapple nemos

2. Install this repo

Clone the repository and install it in editable mode:

git clone https://github.com/pre-cosyne-brainhack/precosyne-brainhack-2026.git
cd precosyne-brainhack-2026
pip install -e .

Loading the data

Set the path to the folder containing the dataset files (structured as root_folder/n/ where n is 1–18) and use the provided helper functions:

from brainhack import config, load_lfp, load_spikes, load_trials

root_folder = "/path/to/Pre-Cosyne-BrainHack-2026"
config.update(root_folder=root_folder)

dataset_num = 1  # choose a dataset (1 to 18)

spikes = load_spikes(dataset_num)
lfp = load_lfp(dataset_num)
trials = load_trials(dataset_num)

See example_load.py for a full example.