About the Authors

Philipp Berens

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

philipp.berens@uni-tuebingen.de

Affiliations Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Jeremy Freeman

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Software

Affiliations Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, United States of America

Thomas Deneux

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unit of Neuroscience Information and Complexity, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Nikolay Chenkov

Roles Software

Affiliation Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience and Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Thomas McColgan

Roles Software

Affiliation Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience and Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Artur Speiser

Roles Software

Affiliation Research Center Caesar, an associate of the Max Planck Society, Bonn, Germany

Jakob H. Macke

Roles Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Research Center Caesar, an associate of the Max Planck Society, Bonn, Germany, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Srinivas C. Turaga

Roles Software, Supervision

Affiliation Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, United States of America

Patrick Mineault

Roles Software

Affiliation Independent Researcher, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Peter Rupprecht

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Friedrich Miescher Institute of Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Stephan Gerhard

Roles Software

Affiliation Friedrich Miescher Institute of Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Rainer W. Friedrich

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Friedrich Miescher Institute of Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Johannes Friedrich

Roles Software

Affiliation Departments of Statistics and Neuroscience, Grossman Center for the Statistics of Mind, and Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Liam Paninski

Roles Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departments of Statistics and Neuroscience, Grossman Center for the Statistics of Mind, and Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Marius Pachitariu

Roles Software

Affiliations Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, United States of America, Institute of Neurology, University College, London, United Kingdom

Kenneth D. Harris

Roles Software, Supervision

Affiliation Institute of Neurology, University College, London, United Kingdom

Ben Bolte

Roles Software

Affiliation Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, United States of America

Timothy A. Machado

Roles Software

Affiliation Departments of Statistics and Neuroscience, Grossman Center for the Statistics of Mind, and Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Dario Ringach

Roles Software

Affiliation Neurobiology and Psychology, Jules Stein Eye Institute, Biomedical Engineering Program, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jasmine Stone

Roles Resources, Software

Affiliations Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, United States of America, Departement of Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Luke E. Rogerson

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliations Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Nicolas J. Sofroniew

Roles Resources, Software

Affiliation Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, United States of America

Jacob Reimer

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Emmanouil Froudarakis

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Thomas Euler

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliations Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Miroslav Román Rosón

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Division of Neurobiology, Department Biology II, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany

Lucas Theis

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Software

Affiliation Twitter, London, United Kingdom

Andreas S. Tolias

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Matthias Bethge

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Center for Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Lucas Theis is a paid employee of Twitter.