v.1.0.0

New Features

• jsonschema based validation of h5 files and circuit configuration
  • checks for required attributes and data types of attributes (in h5 files)

Improvements

• Add black & isort to handle formatting
• Use libsonata to provide more of the functionality
  • parsing config files
  • accessing data in Circuit and Simulation
• Circuit validation changed to be more config-driven
  • it now only validates objects defined in the circuit configuration file
• Improved performance when loading nodes and edges from a circuit.
• Fixed warnings with Pandas 1.5.0

Breaking Changes

• Simulation
  • run and condition properties return libsonata classes instead of dictionaries
• non-BBP Sonata circuit validation was removed
• The NodeStorage & EdgeStorage classes were removed
• the old point_neuron spec is no longer supported
• Some column data types in the nodes and edges DataFrames returned by the get() method may be float or int instead of object.
• require libsonata>=0.1.16