""" Define distribution parameters for nibabel, including package version

The long description parameter is used to fill settings in setup.py, the

nibabel top-level docstring, and in building the docs.

We exec this file in several places, so it cannot import nibabel or use

relative imports.

"""

# nibabel version information

# This is a fall-back for versioneer when installing from a git archive.

# This should be set to the intended next version + dev to indicate a

# development (pre-release) version.

# Format expected by setup.py and doc/source/conf.py: string of form "X.Y.Z"

# Note: this long_description is the canonical place to edit this text.

# It also appears in README.rst, but it should get there by running

# ``tools/refresh_readme.py`` which pulls in this version.

# We also include this text in the docs by ``..include::`` in

# ``docs/source/index.rst``.

=======

NiBabel

=======

Read / write access to some common neuroimaging file formats

This package provides read +/- write access to some common medical and

neuroimaging file formats, including: ANALYZE_ (plain, SPM99, SPM2 and later),

GIFTI_, NIfTI1_, NIfTI2_, `CIFTI-2`_, MINC1_, MINC2_, `AFNI BRIK/HEAD`_, MGH_ and

ECAT_ as well as Philips PAR/REC.  We can read and write FreeSurfer_ geometry,

annotation and morphometry files.  There is some very limited support for

DICOM_.  NiBabel is the successor of PyNIfTI_.

.. _ANALYZE: http://www.grahamwideman.com/gw/brain/analyze/formatdoc.htm

.. _AFNI BRIK/HEAD: https://afni.nimh.nih.gov/pub/dist/src/README.attributes

.. _NIfTI1: http://nifti.nimh.nih.gov/nifti-1/

.. _NIfTI2: http://nifti.nimh.nih.gov/nifti-2/

.. _CIFTI-2: https://www.nitrc.org/projects/cifti/

.. _MINC1:

    https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MINC/Reference/MINC1_File_Format_Reference

.. _MINC2:

    https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MINC/Reference/MINC2.0_File_Format_Reference

.. _PyNIfTI: http://niftilib.sourceforge.net/pynifti/

.. _GIFTI: https://www.nitrc.org/projects/gifti

.. _MGH: https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsTutorial/MghFormat

.. _ECAT: http://xmedcon.sourceforge.net/Docs/Ecat

.. _Freesurfer: https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu

.. _DICOM: http://medical.nema.org/

The various image format classes give full or selective access to header

(meta) information and access to the image data is made available via NumPy

arrays.

Website

=======

Current documentation on nibabel can always be found at the `NIPY nibabel

website <http://nipy.org/nibabel>`_.

Mailing Lists

=============

Please send any questions or suggestions to the `neuroimaging mailing list

<https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/neuroimaging>`_.

Code

====

Install nibabel with::

    pip install nibabel

You may also be interested in:

* the `nibabel code repository`_ on Github;

* documentation_ for all releases and current development tree;

* download the `current release`_ from pypi;

* download `current development version`_ as a zip file;

* downloads of all `available releases`_.

.. _nibabel code repository: https://github.com/nipy/nibabel

.. _Documentation: http://nipy.org/nibabel

.. _current release: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/nibabel

.. _current development version: https://github.com/nipy/nibabel/archive/master.zip

.. _available releases: https://github.com/nipy/nibabel/releases

License

=======

Nibabel is licensed under the terms of the MIT license. Some code included

with nibabel is licensed under the BSD license.  Please see the COPYING file

in the nibabel distribution.

Citing nibabel

==============

Please see the `available releases`_ for the release of nibabel that you are

using.  Recent releases have a Zenodo_ `Digital Object Identifier`_ badge at

the top of the release notes.  Click on the badge for more information.

.. _zenodo: https://zenodo.org

.. _Digital Object Identifier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier

"""