i recently learned that the MNE and BrainStorm packages make use of surfaces created by the BrainSuite application, and subsequently discovered that BrainSuite does not support the Gifti format (as far as I am aware). Does anybody know why this is the case? Should the BrainSuite developers be convinced of the wonders of Gifti?

(as an aside, i'm working to add gifti io support to MNE)

Completely agree with that.

I'm having a hard time using it outside BrainSuite.

I can help to implement.

Originally posted by Leonardo Barbosa:
I just found this post today -- we plan to add GIFTI support. For now, if you need to work with BrainSuite files outside of our tools, you might want to look at this page:

http://users.loni.ucla.edu/~shattuck/brainsuite/file-formats/dfs/

which describes the format and has some links to source code for reading/writing the files.

cheers,
David Shattuck