Credits
The code, documentation, and support channels are written, maintained, and developed by Simon Nilsson with help from the open-source community.
Jia Jie Choong@inoejj
Nastacia Goodwin@goodwinnastacia
Simon Nilsson@sronilsson
Sophia Hwang@sophihwang26
Aasiya Islam@aasiya-islam
Sam Golden Lab@sgoldenlab
Who writes this stuff??
SimBA was originally written in the Sam Golden lab at the University of Washington during 2019–2020, by postdoc Simon Nilsson with help from lab manager Jia Jie Choong and PhD student Nastacia Goodwin. A related plotly dashboard (not maintained as of 2020) was also written by Sophia Hwang and Aasiya Islam.
The code written in the Sam Golden lab is no longer maintained or supported. This early code can be a little tricky to work with —
it is not object-oriented and has no tests or checks — but if needed, it can be found by installing a simba-uw-tf-dev version
prior to 0.77.0 from PyPI.
Note
Simon Nilsson left the Golden lab in 2020 and has maintained SimBA in his spare time from North Carolina ever since. As of October 2020, the SimBA codebase, GitHub repository, pip package, API, documentation, and support channels are developed exclusively by Simon — without grants, hardware, or other support. This is only possible thanks to the collaborative, friendly open-source community and their expert feedback and suggestions!
Notes on development
Tip
Coming from pose-estimation packages such as DeepLabCut or SLEAP, users of SimBA can occasionally feel some frustration at the lack of UX design, unit/regression tests, version control, CI/CD, and repo layout. Please be mindful that SimBA is not supported by grants or developers, so we have not been able to prioritize these best practices. If you need help troubleshooting your SimBA project, it is very helpful to have a small data sample ready. SimBA development is not supported by any GPUs, and we have a restricted set of smaller projects to test with that may be unrelated to your use-case.
SimBA is built and maintained for free, in spare time. If it helps your research, the best ways to say thanks: