biomechzoo 0.1.1

Python implementation of the biomechZoo Matlab toolbox

Repository for the Python version of biomechZoo

This is a development version of the biomechzoo toolbox for python. To use biomechzoo as a packagage alongside your code, follow the "How to install" instructions below

How to install

• make sure the local version of your code sits at the same level as biomechzoo. e.g. code_root/ code_root/biomechzoo/ ← the repo with the actual package code_root/student_code/ ← where your scripts or notebooks live

• open terminal or command window

• create an environment for your research project: conda create -n name python=3.13 -c conda-forge, where name is of your choice

• activate your new environment: conda activate name

• navigate to parent directory where biomechzoo was cloned. e.g. code_root

• install biomechzoo: pip install -e biomechzoo

• install additional requirements: pip install -r biomechzoo/pip_requirements.txt

Updates (not tested)

• If updates are made to biomechzoo, simply pull the latest version from github, you won't need to reinstall (unless there are new dependencies)

Usage notes

• To use biomechzoo in your project, you will need to import biomechzoo as: from biomechzoo.biomechzoo import BiomechZoo
• Then, you can create an object that is an instance of the BimechZoo class as: bmech = BiomechZoo(fld) where fld is the path to your data

opencap users

• opencap users should pre-process their data using https://github.com/stanfordnmbl/opencap-processing
• processed data could be saved to csv using pandas and then imported to biomechzoo using csv2zoo (not yet functional)