The Fieldtrip Matlab Toolbox versus BrainFlow (which is the FieldTrip Python Toolbox)?

Last Updated on April 18, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

FieldTrip

FieldTrip is the MATLAB software toolbox for MEG, EEG and iEEG analysis

It is released free of charge as open source software under the GNU general public license. FieldTrip is developed by members and collaborators of the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands:

https://www.fieldtriptoolbox.org

One of the FieldTip developers is Robert Oostenveld

Associate Principal Investigator at Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertoostenveld/?originalSubdomain=nl

BrainFlow

is a library intended to obtain, parse and analyze EEG, EMG, ECG and other kinds of data from biosensors:

https://brainflow.org

BrainFlow was developed by Andrey Parfenov:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreyparfenov/?locale=en_US

Is BrainFlow a software toolbox for MEG, EEG analysis which was ported from the FieldTrip Matlab toolbox to other software platfroms such as Python? What is your opinion about this topic? Write it in the comments below.