Q: I noticed Matlab now has both NETCDF and HDF support so I wonder if it would be an option to replace (since this has been debated) EMMA with a Matlab based interface that one could speculate would be easier to maintain over time and OSs. http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/minc-users/2009-November/002591.html

A: Well There is work on new project called niak now by Pierre Bellec

http://code.google.com/p/niak/

I have now dumped emma in favour of this if only because it supports octave as well. I don’t know if it works on XP, Vista or 7 but if you can get EMMA going on windows then odds are you will be able to sort out niak.