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Insights, updates, and technical articles from our team.
Streaming Remote HDF5 Files from C++ with remfile-cpp
A new HDF5 virtual file driver that streams remote NWB files over HTTP with adaptive caching. It opens files several times faster than ROS3, works with any HDF5 build, and is now integrated into AqNWB.
Introducing zarr-matlab: Zarr v3, Natively in MATLAB
zarr-matlab is a free, open-source, pure-MATLAB implementation of the Zarr v3 specification, bringing chunked, compressed, cloud-friendly N-dimensional arrays to MATLAB with interoperability tested against zarr-python on every commit.
The 2026 CatalystNeuro Retreat, South of France
Once a year the distributed CatalystNeuro team gets into the same building. This spring that building was a villa in the hills above Nice, for a week of team-led talks, Côte d'Azur evenings, and the unstructured time that turns coworkers into a team.
Honorable Mention in the NIH S-Index Challenge
Our team earned an honorable mention in the NIH Data Sharing Index (S-index) Challenge for the FAIR-Enhanced Data Sharing Index, a metric that rewards both the rigor and the reuse impact of shared datasets.
Virtual Data Standards: A New Path Forward for Scientific Data
Scientific data standardization is at a crossroads. This article presents virtual datasets as a third way to make data accessible across programming languages and computing environments while preserving original files.
NeuroConv 0.9.0 Release
NeuroConv 0.9.0 introduces redesigned TIFF and Miniscope converters, new behavioral data documentation, NWB repacking functionality, and SpikeGLX improvements.