swc-neuron

Rust library for reading, writing, and manipulating SWC files for neuronal morphology. Also includes a CLI for basic validation, sorting, and reindexing.

The format was originally proposed in Cannon, et al. 1998.

While commonly used, many variants exist; this implementation tries to cover the "standardised" version described here.

The header is an uninterrupted series of commented lines starting at the beginning of the file. The SwcNeuron type is generic over implementors of Header, which is currently only implemented for String (i.e. it is treated as a free text field). All other #-prefixed or whitespace-only lines are ignored.

A more strictly specified and greatly expanded specification for "SWC+" also exists here.