NEST, NEURON and other simulators
- The neuro-biologists have been making simultors for years.
- I tried NEURON out last year. You can make really sophisticated
compartmental models. There's a good graphical interface.
- NEST is another simulator. When I installed PyNN I got NEST too.
I got a couple of LIF models working.
- There are other commonly available simulators like Brian.
- The neuro-biologists often build models of particular neurons and
neuron circuits tuned to animal and human brain data.
One of the NEURON pages has a link to these models and you can,
theoretically, use them.
- So what PyNN does is generate a model in the target simulator,
and then runs it.
- Note that the model may include multiple neurons, their
connections, clamped input, and learning.
