Open Standards for Sensorimotor Modeling (OSSM)

The OSSM ecosystem is a community-driven effort to standardize and accelerate research in computational sensorimotor neuroscience. It is supported by the NWO Open Science Fund. OSSM provides open standards, tools, and catalogues for building, sharing, and analyzing models of the sensorimotor system.

Install the entire ecosystem

Requires Python 3.11+. Download the suite and run:

pip install .

Core Packages

• ossm-base – shared types and utilities
• ossm-models – model catalogue & Sensorimotor Modeling Standard (SMS)
• ossm-tasks – task catalogue & Sensorimotor Task and Environment Format (STEF)
• ossm-lab – analysis lab with standardized pipelines and benchmarks

Vision

OSSM ensures that models, tasks, and analyses are interoperable, reusable, and comparable across labs and projects. The goal is to establish a unified, open research paradigm in which neuroscientific models and benchmarks are continuously shared and improved.

Contribution

We welcome contributions! Each repository has its own CONTRIBUTING.md.
Please open issues or pull requests in the relevant repository.

License

All OSSM packages are released under GPL-3.0.