morphapi
is a lightweight python package for downloading neurons morphological reconstructions from publicly available datasets. It provides a number of APIs that facilitate the download of selected neurons and functionality to create 3d meshes with the neuronal reconstruction for visualization with packages like brainrender
.
morphapi
relies on the neurom
package from the BlueBrain project (github) to reconstruct morphology from .swc
files and on vedo
to create 3d rendering from morphological data.
​neuromorpho.org​
To install morphapi
in a python environment with python >= 3.6
simply:
pip install morphapi