Developer Guide

Release:

1.12.0

Date:

November 05, 2026, 09:45 PDT

Since nipype is part of the NIPY project, we follow the same conventions documented in the NIPY Developers Guide. For bleeding-edge version help see Nightly documentation

• Interface Specifications
  • Before you start
  • Overview
  • Nipype Interface Specifications
  • Controlling outputs to terminal
  • Traited Attributes
  • Defining an interface class
  • Undefined inputs
  • Example of inputs
• How to wrap a command line tool
  • Defining inputs and outputs
  • Command line executable
  • Creating outputs on the fly
• How to wrap a MATLAB script
  • Example 1
  • Example 2
• How to wrap a Python script
• Working with nipype source code
  • Introduction
  • Install git
  • Following the latest source
  • Making a patch
  • Git for development
  • git resources
• Architecture (discussions from 2009)
  • Design Guidelines
  • Providing for Provenance
  • Design Principles
  • Discussions
• W3C PROV support
  • Overview
• Software using Nipype
  • Configurable Pipeline for the Analysis of Connectomes (C-PAC)
  • BRAINSTools
  • Brain Imaging Pipelines (BIPs)
  • BROCCOLI
  • Forward
  • Limbo
  • Lyman
  • Medimsight
  • MIA
  • Mindboggle
  • OpenfMRI
  • serial functional Diffusion Mapping (sfDM)
  • The Stanford CNI MRS Library (SMAL)
  • tract_querier
• Testing nipype
  • Installation for developers
  • Test implementation
  • Testing Nipype using Docker
  • Additional comments