Neuroinformatics labs in Warsaw: free as in 'freedom'

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Event Abstract Back to Event Neuroinformatics labs in Warsaw: free as in 'freedom' Jarosław Rybusiński1*, Anita Gardias1, Karol Augustin1, Rafał Kuś1, Mateusz Kruszyński1, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek1, Hubert Klekowicz1 and Piotr Durka1 1 Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland World's first neuroinformatics BSc curriculum at the Faculty of Physics University of Warsaw includes over 300 hours of laboratories dedicated to the practice of registration and analysis of EEG and other bioelectrical/biomedical signals. These classes are based entirely on Open Source (GPL) software, with the only exception being a brief introduction of Matlab® environment. It gives several immediate advantages for both education and using the acquired knowledge in practice: 1. Students have freedom to use at home exactly the same software as in classes. 2. Students can play with the source code, and in future modify the software for particular business or research needs. 3. Upon finishing the BSc, graduates have expertise and experience with the software packages which they can start using for any purpose including commercial at no charge. Owing to the availability of high-level libraries, Python is viewed as a possible free replacement for the commercial package Matlab®, also widely used in neuroinformatics especially for larger projects, which also favors the graduates in many employment opportunities. Teaching programming in Python was a decision based upon careful observation of the trends in neuroinformatics, development of the major projects and discussions with involved scientists. Complete system for recording and analysis of bioelectrical signals was built at the University of Warsaw based upon two projects of Department of Biomedical Physics: Svarog.pl and OpenBCI.pl. Svarog provides the only Open Source viewer for multichannel time series with quality matching commercial systems, while OpenBCI provides real-time communication with amplifiers and allows for setting up experimental scenarios. Students will present software tools used during EEG laboratory classes, perform live EEG recordings and show sample results of SSVEP and ERP analysis. Apart from this sample of GPL-based education, students will present also their own creative contributions including electrooculograph (EOG)-based speller with interface to speech synthesis, e-mails, sms and other functionalities from the field of assistive technologies. Keywords: General neuroinformatics, Open Source Software, software tools, EEG recordings, python language Conference: 5th INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics, Munich, Germany, 10 Sep - 12 Sep, 2012. Presentation Type: Demo Topic: Neuroinformatics Citation: Rybusiński J, Gardias A, Augustin K, Kuś R, Kruszyński M, Jędrzejewski-Szmek Z, Klekowicz H and Durka P (2014). Neuroinformatics labs in Warsaw: free as in 'freedom'. Front. Neuroinform. Conference Abstract: 5th INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics. doi: 10.3389/conf.fninf.2014.08.00102 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 21 Mar 2013; Published Online: 27 Feb 2014. * Correspondence: Dr. Jarosław Rybusiński, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, j.rybusinski@student.uw.edu.pl Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Jarosław Rybusiński Anita Gardias Karol Augustin Rafał Kuś Mateusz Kruszyński Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek Hubert Klekowicz Piotr Durka Google Jarosław Rybusiński Anita Gardias Karol Augustin Rafał Kuś Mateusz Kruszyński Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek Hubert Klekowicz Piotr Durka Google Scholar Jarosław Rybusiński Anita Gardias Karol Augustin Rafał Kuś Mateusz Kruszyński Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek Hubert Klekowicz Piotr Durka PubMed Jarosław Rybusiński Anita Gardias Karol Augustin Rafał Kuś Mateusz Kruszyński Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek Hubert Klekowicz Piotr Durka Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.