Installing brainrender

Basic installation

To install brainrender, we strongly recommend creating a conda environment and a supported version of Python. Then, installing brainrender is as simple as:

pip install brainrender

Caution

With newer versions of Python on Windows, you may need to run conda install pyside2 before running pip install.

Caution

On Silicon Macs, you may need to run conda install hdf5 before running pip install.

Caution

You might get some error messages reporting conflicting version requirements for the allensdk package and a couple of others. You can safely ignore these.

Hint

Note that some of brainrender’s more rarely used features may require the installation of additional packages. In particular, for exporting videos you will need to install ffmpeg.

Advanced installation

If you want the most recent version of brainrender’s code, perhaps to help developing it, you can either clone the GitHub repository or you can get install it directly from GitHub with:

pip install -U git+https://github.com/brainglobe/brainrender.git