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MNE-BIDS

Read and write BIDS-compatible datasets with MNE-Python.

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What problem does it solve?

Organising EEG, MEG and iEEG recordings in BIDS by hand is error-prone.

Who is it for?

Anyone preparing data for sharing or reuse

At a glance

Primary use
Data management
Licence
BSD-3-Clause · permissive
Language
Python
Current release
v0.20.0, published 29 Sep 2026
Development activity
Last commit 30 Sep 2026 · repository created 23 Apr 2017
Maintainers
MNE developers
GitHub stars
182 as of 3 Oct 2026
Standards
BIDS

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Supported modalities and use

Modalities

Real-time capability

Primarily for offline analysis

Common use cases

  • Dataset conversion
  • Standardised metadata

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

    MNE-BIDS

Sources

  1. 01

    github.com/mne-tools/mne-bids (opens in a new tab)

    Open-source repositoryGitHubChecked against source 3 Oct 2026

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