Best practices for data management in neurophysiology
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**Andrew Davison**

  Unité de Neurosciences, Information et Complexité (UNIC),
  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,
  91198 Gif sur Yvette, France.
  http://andrewdavison.info

Notes for a tutorial given at the `GDR Multielectrodes minischool`_. Available to download in PDF_ and Epub_ formats.

Version |version|

October 13th 2014

Contents
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   
   motivation
   data_life_cycle
   acquisition
   pre_processing
   analysis
   version_control
   testing
   provenance_tracking
   conclusions


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You are free to copy, adapt or reuse these notes, provided you give attribution
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https://bitbucket.org/apdavison/reproducible_research_cns - feel free to fork the repository!


.. todo:: update PDF and Epub links

.. _tutorial: http://www.cnsorg.org/cns-2013-tutorials#workflows
.. _`GDR Multielectrodes minischool`: http://gdr2904gif.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/3
.. _Git: http://git-scm.com/
.. _Mercurial: http://mercurial.selenic.com/
.. _Sumatra: http://neuralensemble.org/sumatra
.. _VisTrails: http://www.vistrails.org/
.. _`Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence`: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
.. _`doi:10.1109/MCSE.2009.15`: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2009.15
.. _`doi:10.3389/fncom.2010.00127`: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2010.00127
.. _odML: http://www.g-node.org/projects/odml
.. _Neo: http://neuralensemble.org/neo
.. _PDF: https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/rrcns/gdr_multielectrode_2014/rrcns.pdf
.. _Epub: https://media.readthedocs.org/epub/rrcns/gdf_multielectrode_2014/rrcns.epub