BCI SOFTWARE TOOLS AND DATASETS: A SHORT SURVEY Sanjay Dubey 1 , Jigar Patel 2 , I.A.Pasha 3 ECE Department, BVRIT, Narsapur, TS, India July 19, 2018 Abstract Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs) are the systems that translate the electrical activity of the brain into the com- mands to control the devices. A typical BCI system will contain hardware and software. Hardware collects the data from the brain while software processes it and provides feed- back to the hardware. In this paper, we discuss about the two key aspects in the BCI research, one, BCI software platforms / toolboxes and second, BCI datasets which are publicly available. We provide short review regarding BCI software with respect to their most important features such as license, programming language involved, requirements of operating software or other commercial software etc. The BCI software reviewed are BCI2000, OpenVIBE, BCILAB, BCI++, Gtecs g.BCISys, xBCI and Wyrm. Dataset is one other aspect of the BCI research. We provide short descrip- tion and comparison of BCI datasets which are available publicly. Keywords : Brain Computer Interfaces; BCI; Toolboxes; EEG;Dataset 1 INTRODUCTION Electroencephalographic activity (EEG) from scalp was recorded by Hans Berger over 80 years ago [1]. Since then, many applications 1 International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics Volume 120 No. 6 2018, 7855-7870 ISSN: 1314-3395 (on-line version) url: http://www.acadpubl.eu/hub/ Special Issue http://www.acadpubl.eu/hub/ 7855