diff --git a/sci-libs/nibabel/ChangeLog b/sci-libs/nibabel/ChangeLog
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+*nibabel-2.5.1 (04 Nov 2019)
+
+  04 Nov 2019;  <chymera@gentoo.org> +metadata.xml, +nibabel-2.5.1.ebuild:
+  sci-libs/nibabel: version bump 2.5.1 ahead of Gentoo Science
diff --git a/sci-libs/nibabel/Manifest b/sci-libs/nibabel/Manifest
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+DIST nibabel-2.5.1.tar.gz 4281663 SHA256 47b445abee203a9ab4068d826588f926352ea55f20a894178ad5b56215a22fd8 SHA512 49de1a42113e64a56336e02f3143588b574c7b063b10b892ee125048451be701955e505bd1d51183327e2ee221f8364005fdd9fa7d256343113ab6ca1994820d WHIRLPOOL cb0337a753c7f3827da8954c354a65ce09ecb96fba3ffd637028f4634ff3aa29eeb3975ad012bced12fbad13adf94fd5d7e1313983f6598467330ac001615500
diff --git a/sci-libs/nibabel/metadata.xml b/sci-libs/nibabel/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>horea.christ@gmail.com</email>
+		<name>Horea Christian</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>sci@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Gentoo Science Project</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription lang="en">
+The package provides read and write access to some common medical and
+neuroimaging file formats, including: ANALYZE (plain, SPM99, SPM2), GIFTI,
+NIfTI1, MINC, MGH and ECAT as well as PAR/REC. It can read and write Freesurfer
+geometry, and read Freesurfer morphometry and annotation files. There is some
+very limited support for DICOM. NiBabel is the successor of PyNIfTI.
+</longdescription>
+	<use>
+		<flag name="dicom">Adds limited read support for the DICOM imaging format.</flag>
+	</use>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">nipy/nibabel</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/sci-libs/nibabel/nibabel-2.5.1.ebuild b/sci-libs/nibabel/nibabel-2.5.1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_7,3_4,3_5,3_6,3_7} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Access a cacophony of neuro-imaging file formats"
+HOMEPAGE="http://nipy.org/nibabel/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/nipy/nibabel/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE="dicom doc test"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-python/numpy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	sci-libs/scipy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/mock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dicom? (
+		sci-libs/pydicom[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pillow[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		)
+	"
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? (
+		${RDEPEND}
+		dev-python/nose[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		)
+	doc? ( dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	"
+
+python_test() {
+	cd "${BUILD_DIR}" || die
+	echo "backend: Agg" > matplotlibrc
+	MPLCONFIGDIR=. nosetests || die
+}