File Formats & IO

Real morphologies come from reconstructions, not hand-typed coordinates. braincell reads the common neuronal-morphology formats and integrates with NeuroMorpho.Org, the largest public repository of reconstructed neurons. It can also save and reload its own morphologies.

All readers and the NeuroMorpho client live in braincell.io; the most common entry points are the Morphology.from_* constructors.

Format	Loader	Notes
SWC	Morphology.from_swc	the de-facto standard; simple point + parent table
Neurolucida ASC	Morphology.from_asc	MicroBrightField / Neurolucida ASCII
NeuroML2	NeuroMlReader	XML-based standard for detailed models
NeuroMorpho.Org	Morphology.from_neuromorpho / io.load_neuromorpho	download + cache directly from the repository
Checkpointing	io.save_morpho / io.load_morpho	persist a braincell morphology to disk