Learning material

Pynapple has been featured in many workshops, summer schools, and more. Underneath you can find links to all the teaching material we generated for these events. If you are not satisfied by the examples on the website, go and take a look at these!

If you made your own teaching material and think it could help others learn to use Pynapple, feel free to make a pull request to the Pynapple GitHub page so we can include it here.

Basic tutorials

The following tutorials are meant to get you started with Pynapple. They are designed to be accessible to beginners, and they cover the basics of data loading, manipulation, and analysis.

Topic	Type	Authors
Learning the fundamentals of Pynapple	web page	Guillaume Viejo
Pynapple & NeMoS Cheat Sheet	cheat sheet	Aramis Tanelus
Signal processing	notebook	Sarah Jo Venditto
An introduction to Pynapple	web page	Wolf De Wulf

Curated examples

The following examples are curated from the Pynapple documentation and other teaching material. They are meant to be a starting point for your own analysis.

Analysing head-direction cells

Compute head-direction tuning curves from a freely-moving recording, streaming the NWB file from OSF.

Analysing head-direction cells

Streaming data from DANDI

Stream an NWB file directly from the DANDI Archive into pynapple, without downloading the whole dataset.

Streaming data from DANDI

Null distributions to test spatial firing

Use the randomization module to build null distributions and test whether firing is modulated by position.

Null distributions to test spatial firing

Calcium Imaging

Extract head-direction tuning from a one-photon Miniscope recording of a freely-moving mouse.

Calcium Imaging

Wavelet Transform

Apply the wavelet transform to hippocampal LFP recorded during active traversal of a linear track.

Wavelet Transform

Spikes-phase coupling

Band-pass filter LFP from REM sleep to extract phase, and find the phase preference of spiking units.

Spikes-phase coupling

Trial-aligned decoding with International Brain Lab data

Trial-align spiking activity from the IBL decision task and decode the animal’s choice with logistic regression.

Trial-aligned decoding with International Brain Lab data

Detecting sharp-wave ripples

Detect hippocampal sharp-wave ripples in the Grosmark & Buzsáki dataset using pynapple’s filtering tools.

Detecting sharp-wave ripples

Topic	Type	Authors
Analyzing head-direction cells with Pynapple	web page	Guillaume Viejo
Calcium imaging analysis of head-direction cells	web page	Guillaume Viejo
Analyzing hippocampal place cells with Pynapple and NeMoS	web page	Sarah Jo Venditto
Exploring the Allen Institute’s Visual Coding dataset	web page	Guillaume Viejo
Data wrangling, 1D neural tuning, and model fitting	notebook	Sarah Jo Venditto
2D neural tuning and model fitting	notebook	Sarah Jo Venditto
Neural decoding	notebook	Sarah Jo Venditto
Fitting injected currents using GLMs	web page	Edoardo Balzani
Fitting a head direction population using GLMs	web page	Edoardo Balzani
Fitting grid cells using GLMs	web page	Edoardo Balzani
Fitting place cells using GLMs	web page	Edoardo Balzani
Fitting V1 cells using GLMs	web page	Edoardo Balzani
Fitting calcium imaging using GLMs	web page	Edoardo Balzani

Workshop materials

The following materials were generated for workshops and summer schools.

Title	Date
CCN Software Workshop	Jan 2025
CCN Software Workshop @ SfN	Nov 2025
CCN Software Workshop @ FENS	July 2026
CCN Software Workshop	Feb 2026