netneurotools: Tools for network neuroscience

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This toolbox is a collection of functions written in Python that get frequent usage in the Network Neuroscience Lab <https://netneurolab.github.io/>, housed in the Brain Imaging Centre <https://www.mcgill.ca/bic/home> at McGill University <https://www.mcgill.ca/>_.

The accompanying paper can be found on bioRxiv <https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.09.675160v1>_.

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Features

Netneurotools provides a wide range of tools for network neuroscience research.

• A range of useful datasets fetchers

• Network construction: empirical and surrogate

• Network (graph) metrics calculation: up-to-date and optimized

• Brain and network visualization

• Optimized statistics routines

• Convenient interface for external tools

• And much more!

Check out our documentation <https://netneurolab.github.io/netneurotools/>_ for more information!

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Installation

You can install directly from PyPi with :code:pip install netneurotools.

This package is under active development. We recommend installing the latest version with

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pip install git+https://github.com/netneurolab/netneurotools.git

If you are looking for the earlier version of the toolbox before the recent breaking changes, you can install it with

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pip install git+https://github.com/netneurolab/netneurotools.git@0.2.X

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Development

This package has been developed by members of the Network Neuroscience Lab in pursuit of their research. While we've made every effort to ensure these tools work and have some documentation, there is always room for improvement! If you've found a bug, are experiencing a problem, or have a question, create a new issue <https://github.com/netneurolab/netneurotools/issues>_ with some information about it and one of our team members will do our best to help you.

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Citation

If you use the toolbox, please cite our pre-print <https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.09.675160v1>_.

Importantly, netneurotools often implements and builds on tools that have been previously developed, and we redistribute datasets that were acquired elsewhere. If you use the toolbox, please also ensure proper attribution to the original work, using the references found in the docstrings or in the Reference API.

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License Information

This codebase is licensed under the 3-clause BSD license. The full license can be found in the LICENSE <https://github.com/netneurolab/netneurotools/blob/ master/LICENSE>_ file in the netneurotools distribution.

All trademarks referenced herein are property of their respective holders.

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