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Neuroinformatics Unit
Open-Source Research Software for Neuroscience
- Employees
- 11 employees
- Locations
- 1 location
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Neuroinformatics Unit
Open-Source Research Software for Neuroscience
- Employees
- 11 employees
- Locations
- 1 location
About
The Neuroinformatics Unit is a Research Software Engineering team based at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre and Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at UCL. The organization develops open-source software, data management architectures, and computational analysis tools for neuroanatomy, animal behaviour tracking, electrophysiology, and optophysiology research.
Services
2Open Software Summer School
Organizes hands-on training workshops, satellite seminars, and community hackathons focusing on scientific Python programming, whole-brain neuroanatomy analysis, motion tracking, big 3D imaging data processing, and extracellular electrophysiology pipelines for academic and industry researchers.
Software Skills Courses
Delivers structured training courses covering introductory to advanced scientific programming, software engineering best practices, version control workflows, high-performance computing usage, and specialized research toolkits for life science and computational neuroscience investigators.
Products
4BMD
BrainGlobe
BrainGlobe is an interoperable Python-based ecosystem designed for computational neuroanatomy, facilitating whole-brain microscopy data registration, cell detection, histological alignment, 3D anatomical atlas creation, and multi-dimensional scientific visualization.
movement
movement is a Python toolbox providing a standardized modular interface to clean, visualize, and analyze animal pose estimation tracks derived from video recordings in 2D and 3D multi-animal experiments.
DataShuttle
DataShuttle is an automated research data management application that standardizes project directory structures according to the NeuroBlueprint specification and orchestrates data synchronization across local workstations and remote servers.
Quick Info
- Followers
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- Employees
- 11
- Founded
- 2026
- Operating in
- United Kingdom
- Company type
- Tech Company
- Website
Industries3
Solution Areas5
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Business Model
Locations1
HeadquarterHQ
Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London, London, UK
References8
- 1.Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
- 2.Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
- 3.Keshavarzi Laboratory
- 4.University of Cambridge
- 5.University of Oldenburg
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Recent activity
1Sep 2026
Tags3
#neuroscience
#opensource
#neuroinformatics