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Clinical / research infrastructure · Data & standards

DANDI client

Command-line client for the DANDI neurophysiology archive.

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github.com/dandi/dandi-cli (opens in a new tab)Documentation (opens in a new tab)

What problem does it solve?

Downloading and publishing large NWB datasets reliably.

Who is it for?

Data producers and anyone training models on archived recordings

At a glance

Primary use
Clinical / research infrastructure
Licence
Apache-2.0 · permissive
Language
Python
Current release
0.81.0, published 30 Sep 2026
Development activity
Last commit 1 Oct 2026 · repository created 16 Aug 2019
Maintainers
DANDI team
GitHub stars
29 as of 3 Oct 2026
Standards
NWB, BIDS

Repository facts are a snapshot read from the GitHub API on 3 Oct 2026; they are reported as found, not scored.

Supported modalities and use

Modalities

Real-time capability

Primarily for offline analysis

Common use cases

  • Dataset download and upload
  • Validation

How it fits into a BCI stack

  1. Hardware

    2 tools

  2. Acquisition

    3 tools

  3. Streaming

    3 tools

  4. Processing

    6 tools

  5. Decoding

    4 tools

  6. Applications

    2 tools

  7. Data & standards

    DANDI client

Sources

  1. 01

    github.com/dandi/dandi-cli (opens in a new tab)

    Open-source repositoryGitHubChecked against source 3 Oct 2026

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