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MNE-CPP is an open-source, cross-platform C++17 framework for the acquisition, processing, and visualization of MEG / EEG / sEEG / fNIRS data, designed for real-time clinical and research workflows.

The authoritative documentation lives on the project website. This wiki is a curated index of where to find what.

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Get started

Step	Where to go
Install a binary	Downloads — Linux, macOS, Windows installers, plus a WebAssembly demo
Open sample data	Sample dataset
First MNE Inspect session	Inspect quickstart
Build from source	Developer setup

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Documentation

Resource	Link
Project website	https://mne-cpp.github.io
User manual	https://mne-cpp.github.io/docs/manual/intro
Developer guide	https://mne-cpp.github.io/docs/development/intro
C++ API reference (Doxygen)	https://mne-cpp.github.io/api
MNA / MNX format specification	https://mne-cpp.github.io/docs/manual/mna-format
FIFF format reference	https://mne-cpp.github.io/docs/manual/fiff-format
Command-line tools overview	https://mne-cpp.github.io/docs/manual/tools-overview

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Downloads and releases

Channel	Link
Latest stable installer	https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-cpp/releases/latest
All releases	https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-cpp/releases
Nightly dev builds	https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-cpp/releases/tag/dev_build
WebAssembly browser demo	https://mne-cpp.github.io/wasm/
SDK (CMake find_package(MNECPP))	Attached to each release as mnecpp-<version>-sdk-*.tar.gz

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Citation

If you use MNE-CPP in academic work, please cite the framework. The concept DOI always resolves to the latest version:

@software{mne_cpp,
  author       = {Dinh, Christoph and Esch, Lorenz and Larson, Eric and others},
  title        = {{MNE-CPP: A Framework for Electrophysiology}},
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.593102},
  url          = {https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-cpp}
}

A machine-readable CITATION.cff ships in the repository root and is consumed by GitHub's Cite this repository button.

Full publication list: https://mne-cpp.github.io/docs/cite

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Community and support

Channel	Purpose
GitHub Discussions	Q&A, ideas, show-and-tell
GitHub Issues	Bug reports, feature requests
Pull requests	Code contributions
CONTRIBUTING.md	How to contribute
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md	Community standards
MNE-Python community	https://mne.tools — sister project, shared formats and concepts

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For maintainers

• Release process — how to cut a new MNE-CPP release.
• Roadmap — current release plans (v2.2.0 to v2.3.0).
• CI dashboards: Staging · Release · CodeQL · Coverity
• Coverage:

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Sister and upstream projects

Project	Relationship
MNE-Python	Reference implementation; MNE-CPP shares the FIFF format and many algorithms
MNE-BIDS	BIDS layer used for MNE-CPP's BIDS importer/exporter
FreeSurfer	Source of subject anatomies (BEM, source spaces, cortical surfaces)
Qt 6	GUI toolkit for desktop and WASM builds
Eigen	Linear algebra backbone
ONNX Runtime	ML model inference for the ml library

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