For Python enthusiasts this may be a good news, open access journal Frontiers in Neuroinformatics is hosting a special section on Python in neuroscience. Whole section highlights application of Python programming in neuroscience and neuroinformatics with focus on

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• simulators and simulator interfaces
• data collection and analysis
• sharing, re-use, storage and databasing of models and data
• stimulus generation
• parameter search and optimization
• visualization

At first glance the whole collection looks really great, but I picked following few articles to list here

• Modular toolkit for Data Processing (MDP): a Python data processing framework
• Network features and pathway analyses in a signal transduction cascade
• PyNN: a common interface for neuronal network simulators
• Python for information theoretic analysis of neural data
• OMPC: an open-source MATLAB®-to-Python compiler
• PyMVPA: a unifying approach to the analysis of neuroscientific data