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+JSNIRF Toolbox is written by Qianqian Fang as part of the NeuroJData/OpenJData project.
+
+Qianqian is currently an Assistant Professor in the 
+Department of Bioengineering at Northeastern University.
+
+Address: Dept. of Bioengineering
+         Northeastern University
+         360 Huntington Ave, ISEC 206, Boston, MA 02115, USA
+URL: http://fanglab.org
+Email: <q.fang at neu.edu>
+
+OpenJData Website : http://openjdata.org
+
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+= Change Log =
+
+Major updates are marked with a "*"
+
+== JSNIRF Toolbox v0.4 (Amygdala - alpha), FangQ <q.fang (a) neu.edu> ==
+
+ 2019-09-19 [61def95] adding issues link in README
+ 2019-09-19 [b4d357c] polishing snirf toolbox, handling root object names
+ 2019-09-19 [53966d4] pass variable name from savesnirf to saveh5
+ 2019-09-19 [4744840] jsnirf toolbox v0.4
+ 2019-09-19 [a9ffd3b] initial version of jsnirf toolbox
+ 2019-09-17 [3559dcb] a compact SNIRF MATLAB parser and converter to JSNIRF JSON file