Kinetics Toolkit: An Open-Source Python Package to Facilitate Research in Biomechanics

Abstract

While Kinetics Toolkit provides a dedicated class for containing and manipulating data (Time Series), it loosely follows a procedural programming paradigm where processes are grouped as interrelated functions in different submodules, which is consistent with how people are generally introduced to programming. Each function has a limited and well-defined scope, making Kinetics Toolkit generic and expandable. Particular care is given to documentation, with extensive tutorials and API references. Special attention is also given to interoperability with other software programs by using Pandas Dataframes (and therefore CSV files, Excel files, etc.), JSON files or C3D files as intermediate data containers.