The NIX project (previously called Pandora) started as an initiative of the Electrophysiology Task Force which is part of the INCF Datasharing Program. As such the project aims to develop standardized methods and models for storing electrophysiology and other neuroscience data together with their metadata in one common file format based on HDF5.
See the wiki for more information
You can get a ready to install package for different Ubuntu versions. You have to add the following software source to your system:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnode/nix/ubuntu trusty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnode/nix/ubuntu trusty main
Modify "trusty" (=14.04) to "precise" (="12.04") if you are running the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
In order to build the NIX library a recent C++11 compatible compiler is needed (g++ 4.8, clang 3.4 or Visual Studio 2013) as well as the build tool CMake. Further nix depends on the following third party libraries:
- HDF5 (version 1.8 or higher)
- Boost
- CppUnit
# install dependencies
sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev libhdf5-serial-dev libcppunit-dev cmake build-essential
# clone NIX
git clone https://github.com/G-Node/nix
cd nix
# make a build dir and build nix
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make all
# run the unit tests
ctest
# install
sudo make installThe API documentation can be found here
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