NetPyNE version 0.9.8 released

[Joe Graham]

NetPyNE v0.9.8 is now available.

For a complete list of changes and bug fixes see: https://github.com/Neurosim-lab/netpyne ... tag/v0.9.8

See here for instructions to install or update to the latest version: http://www.netpyne.org/install.html

NetPyNE Version 0.9.8

New features

- analysis.plotLFP can now be applied to external data

- Evolutionary and Optuna optimization can now read results from .pkl files

- Enabled recording of stimulus variables (e.g. SEClamp i)

- Added options in load func to avoid instantiating cells, conns, stims and/or rxd

- Analysis and plotting of rate vs current (f-I) curve for single cell tuning

- Recording and plotting of current dipoles in arbitrary subset of populations

- Added option to plot LFP spectrogram with log y-axis

- Added option to plot the log of connectivity in plotConn

- Enabled random distribution of multiple synapses with synsPerConn>1 and connRandomSecFromList=True

- Added lineWidth option to plot2Dnet (thanks Eric!)

- Updated Travis Continuous Integration to use NEURON 7.8.1 (from 7.6.2)

- Removed trailing white space from all Python files in the repository


Bug fixes

- Fixed bug when using index with recordTraces

- Fixed axes values in plotRxDConcentration and iplotRxDConcentration

- Added links to necessary mod files in the importing cell models tutorial

- Added aux_fun.inc to doc/source/code/mod as it's needed for some examples

- Blocked terminal output from Git when no repository is found (i.e. with pip install netpyne)

- Avoid adding section-based weightNorm values to point neurons (was affecting tut_import.py)

- Prevent error when loading pointCell params from json by converting Dict to dict

- Fixed bug in plotShape (thanks Eric!)

- Updated setup.py so PyPI website renders the README as markdown

- Fixed expected numSpikes in test of M1detailed example

- Merged GUI branch into development branch

- Fixed bug in iplotConn

- Fixed bug and coloring in iplotSpikeStats with different themes