RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Bonsai: An event-based framework for processing and controlling data streams
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 006791
DO 10.1101/006791
A1 Gonçalo Lopes
A1 Niccolò Bonacchi
A1 João Frazão
A1 Joana Neto
A1 Bassam Atallah
A1 Sofia Soares
A1 Luís Moreira
A1 Sara Matias
A1 Pavel M. Itskov
A1 Patrícia Correia
A1 Roberto Medina
A1 Elena Dreosti
A1 Joseph J. Paton
A1 Adam R. Kampff
YR 2014
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2014/07/02/006791.abstract
AB The design of modern scientific experiments requires the control and monitoring of many parallel data streams. However, the serial execution of programming instructions in a computer makes it a challenge to develop software that can deal with the asynchronous, parallel nature of scientific data. Here we present Bonsai, a modular, high-performance, open-source visual programming framework for processing data streams. We will describe Bonsai’s core principles and architecture while specifically highlighting some of the applications that were developed during one year of use in an active neuroscience research institute.