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http://www.neuroml.org/

A XML-based description language that provides a common data format for defining and exchanging descriptions of neuronal cell and network models. It facilitates the exchange of complex neural models, allows for greater transparency and accessibility of models, enhances interoperability between simulators and other tools, and supports the development of new software and databases. Exchange of network models will aid the investigation of structure-function relationships in neuroscience including theoretical studies relating connectivity patterns to normal and neurodegenerative network states. NeuroML is a free and open community effort developed with input from many contributors. They will need your help as the standards and tools continue to evolve.

Proper citation: NeuroML (RRID:SCR_003083) Copy   

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http://www.neurogems.org/neosim/

Simulation software that includes a parallel discrete event simulation kernel for running models of spiking neurons on a cluster of workstations. Models are specified using NeuroML, and visualized using Java2D. Simulation components are distributed across a parallel machine or network and communicate using timestamped events. The successor NEOSIM2 project under the NeuroGems umbrella at Edinburgh University (http://www.neurogems.org) continues to distribute the software, http://www.neurogems.org/neosim2/ The NEOSIM project includes: * a parallel discrete event simulation kernel for running models of spiking neural networks on clusters of machines. * a modules kit for extending the behavior of neurons and connectivity patterns. * a user interface for building and running simulations. OS: Linux, MS-Windows

Proper citation: Neural Open Simulation (RRID:SCR_002916) Copy   

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http://briansimulator.org/

Software Python package for simulating spiking neural networks. Useful for neuroscientific modelling at systems level, and for teaching computational neuroscience. Intuitive and efficient neural simulator.

Proper citation: Brian Simulator (RRID:SCR_002998) Copy   

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http://vano.cellexplorer.org/

VANO is a Volume image object AnNOtation System for 3D multicolor image stacks, developed by Hanchuan Peng, Fuhui Long, and Gene Myers. VANO provides a well-coordinated way to annotate hundreds or thousands of 3D image objects. It combines 3D views of images and spread sheet neatly, and is just easy to manage 3D segmented image objects. It also lets you incorporate your segmentation priors, and lets you edit your segmentation results! This system has been used in building the first digital nuclei atlases of C. elegans at the post-embryonic stage (joint work with Stuart Kim lab, Stanford Univ), the single-neuron level fruit fly neuronal atlas of late embryos (with Chris Doe lab, Univ of Oregon, HHMI), and the compartment-level of digital map(s) of adult fruit fly brains (several labs at Janelia Farm, HHMI). VANO is cross-platform software. Currently the downloadable versions are for Windows (XP and Vista) and Mac (Intel-chip based, Leopard or Tiger OS). If you need VANO for different systems (such as 64bit or 32bit, Redhat Linux, Ubuntu, etc), you can either compile the software, or send an email to pengh (at) janelia.hhmi.org. VANO is Open-Source. You can download both the source code files and pre-complied versions at the Software Downloads page.

Proper citation: Volume image object AnNOtation System (RRID:SCR_003393) Copy   

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http://www.flybrain.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 23,2022. Interactive database of Drosophila melanogaster nervous system. Used by drosophila neuroscience community and by other researchers studying arthropod brain structure.

Proper citation: FlyBrain (RRID:SCR_000706) Copy   

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http://neuronalarchitects.com/ibiofind.html

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 17, 2016. C#.NET 4.0 WPF / OWL / REST / JSON / SPARQL multi-threaded, parallel desktop application enables the construction of biomedical knowledge through PubMed, ScienceDirect, EndNote and NIH Grant repositories for tracking the work of medical researchers for ranking and recommendations. Users can crawl web sites, build latent semantic indices to generate literature searches for both Clinical Translation Science Award and non-CTSA institutions, examine publications, build Bayesian networks for neural correlates, gene to gene interactions, protein to protein interactions and as well drug treatment hypotheses. Furthermore, one can easily access potential researcher information, monitor and evolve their networks and search for possible collaborators and software tools for creating biomedical informatics products. The application is designed to work with the ModelMaker, R, Neural Maestro, Lucene, EndNote and MindGenius applications to improve the quality and quantity of medical research. iBIOFind interfaces with both eNeoTutor and ModelMaker 2013 Web Services Implementation in .NET for eNeoTutor to aid instructors to build neuroscience courses as well as rare diseases. Added: Rare Disease Explorer: The Visualization of Rare Disease, Gene and Protein Networks application module. Cinematics for the Image Finder from Yale. The ability to automatically generate and update websites for rare diseases. Cytoscape integration for the construction and visualization of pathways for Molecular targets of Model Organisms. Productivity metrics for medical researchers in rare diseases. iBIOFind 2013 database now includes over 150 medical schools in the US along with Clinical Translational Science Award Institutions for the generation of biomedical knowledge, biomedical informatics and Researcher Profiles.

Proper citation: iBIOFind (RRID:SCR_001587) Copy   

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http://www.dendrite.org/software.html

Dendritica is a program package for relating dendritic geometry and signal propagation. The programs are based on those used for the simulations described in the following paper: Vetter, P., Roth, A. & Husser, M. (2001). Action potential propagation in dendrites depends on dendritic morphology. Journal of Neurophysiology, 85: 926-937. Dendritica can functionally be divided into three main parts: - Interactive morphological analysis and electrophysiological simulation of single cells - Automated batch simulations across a set of morphologies using the same simulation parameters - Automated analysis of batch simulation runs Dendritica requires NEURON 4.1.1 with some modifications described in Appendix 1. It was tested for NEURON 4.1.1 on Linux and SGI IRIX. Some modifications to the Dendritica code may be necessary in order to run it on older or newer versions of NEURON. Sponsors: This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust, the European Community, the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, the Wellcome Trust 4-year PhD Programme in Neuroscience.

Proper citation: Dendritica: Software Tools for Studying Dendritic Signaling (RRID:SCR_001865) Copy   

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http://dendrites.esam.northwestern.edu/

This database contains morphologies of hippocampal pyramidal cells and interneurons (in Neurolucida, NEURON, and pdf formats) as well as data recorded from those cells. Sponsors:This work was supported by grants from the NIH (T32-GM-08061 to T.J.M., F32-NS-10532 to N.L.G., and R01-NS35180 and R01-NS 46064 to N.S. and W.L.K.) and NSF (IGERT fellowship to Y.K.). NS46064 is part of the NSF/NIH Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience Program

Proper citation: SPRUSTON / KATH LAB: Neuraling Modeling Database NEURAL MODELING DATABASE (RRID:SCR_001869) Copy   

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http://compneuro.salk.edu/

The Computational Neuroscience specialization is a new facet of the broader Neuroscience graduate program at UCSD. The goal of the specialization is to train the next generation of neuroscientists with the broad range of computational and analytical skills that are essential to understand the organization and function of complex neural systems. The specialization is intended for students with backgrounds in neuroscience, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, computer science, engineering, and mathematics. This specialization allows Neuroscience students to concentrate on a focused program of rigorous course work in both the theoretical and experimental aspects of computational neuroscience. Students are encouraged to pursue thesis research that includes both an experimental and a computational component, often arranged by the student as a collaboration between two research groups. The program is focused on these major themes relevant for computational neuroscience research: - Neurobiology of Neural Systems - the anatomy, physiology, and behavior of systems of neurons, with emphasis on basic phenomenology. - Advanced Measurement Tools in Neuroscience - Advanced imaging and recording techniques reflecting the impact of experimental physics on neuroscience. - Algorithms for the Analysis of Neural Data - New algorithms and techniques for analyzing data obtained from physiological recording - Theoretical Basis for Collective Neural Dynamics - A synthesis of approaches from mathematics and physical sciences as well as biology will be used to explore the collective properties and nonlinear dynamics of neuronal systems. Sponsors: This program is supported by the University of California at San Diego.

Proper citation: University of California at San Diego Computational Neuroscience (RRID:SCR_001930) Copy   

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http://www.vaa3d.org

A handy, fast, and versatile 3D/4D/5D Image Visualization & Analysis System for Bioimages & Surface Objects. Vaa3D is a cross-platform (Mac, Linux, and Windows) tool for visualizing large-scale (gigabytes, and 64-bit data) 3D/4D/5D image stacks and various surface data. It is also a container of powerful modules for 3D image analysis (cell segmentation, neuron tracing, brain registration, annotation, quantitative measurement and statistics, etc) and data management. Vaa3D is very easy to be extended via a powerful plugin interface. For example, many ITK tools are being converted to Vaa3D Plugins. Vaa3D-Neuron is built upon Vaa3D to make 3D neuron reconstruction much easier. In a recent Nature Biotechnology paper (2010, 28(4), pp.348-353) about Vaa3D and Vaa3D-Neuron, an order of magnitude of performance improvement (both reconstruction accuracy and speed) was achieved compared to other tools.

Proper citation: Vaa3D (RRID:SCR_002609) Copy   

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http://millette.med.sc.edu/Lab%209%2610/histology_of_nervous_tissue.htm

A website for a neuroscience lab class from the University of South Carolina that contains images of different parts of the nervous system and allows students to identify each part and answer questions about it. You should be able to (a) recognize nervous tissue in routine histological sections; (b) distinguish peripheral nerves from dense CT and smooth muscle; (c) recognize the morphological differences between myelinated and unmyelinated nerves at both the light microscopic and electron microscopic levels; (d) recognize nerve cell bodies and their component parts; (e) identify and differentiate dendrites and axons; (f) understand and identify various types of neuroglia, including Schwann cells; (g) understand and identify the structural relationship of the Schwann cell cytoplasm and plasma membrane enveloping axons; (h) understand the general features of nerve synapses. You should be able to draw nerves, cell bodies, Nodes of Ranvier, synapses etc. as they would appear under both the electron and light microscopes.

Proper citation: Histology of Nervous Tissue Laboratory Course (RRID:SCR_002367) Copy   

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http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/

A physiologic and molecular look at drug addiction involving many factors including: basic neurobiology, a scientific examination of drug action in the brain, the role of genetics in addiction, and ethical considerations. Designed to be used by students, teachers and members of the public, the materials meet selected US education standards for science and health. Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by changes in the brain which result in a compulsive desire to use a drug. A combination of many factors including genetics, environment and behavior influence a person's addiction risk, making it an incredibly complicated disease. The new science of addiction considers all of these factors - from biology to family - to unravel the complexities of the addicted brain. * Natural Reward Pathways Exist in the Brain: The reward pathway is responsible for driving our feelings of motivation, reward and behavior. * Drugs Alter the Brain's Reward Pathway: Drugs work over time to change the reward pathway and affect the entire brain, resulting in addiction. * Genetics Is An Important Factor In Addiction: Genetic susceptibility to addiction is the result of the interaction of many genes. * Timing and Circumstances Influence Addiction: If you use drugs when you are an adolescent, you are more likely to develop lifetime addiction. An individual's social environment also influences addiction risk. * Challenges and Issues in Addiction: Addiction impacts society with many ethical, legal and social issues.

Proper citation: New Science of Addiction: Genetics and the Brain (RRID:SCR_002770) Copy   

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http://www.cnl.salk.edu/

The long range goal of this laboratory is to understand the computational resources of brains from the biophysical to the systems levels. The central issues being addressed are how dendrites integrate synaptic signals in neurons, how networks of neurons generate dynamical patterns of activity, how sensory information is represented in the cerebral cortex, how memory representations are formed and consolidated during sleep, and how visuo-motor transformations are adaptively organized. Additionally, new techniques have been developed for modeling cell signaling using Monte Carlo methods (MCell) and the blind separation of brain imaging data into functionally independent components (ICA).

Proper citation: Computational Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute (RRID:SCR_002809) Copy   

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http://lfpy.github.io

Python package for calculation of extracellular potentials from multicompartment neuron models. LFPy can be used to set up a model, run simulations, and calculate the extracellular potentials arising from activity in the given model neuron. It relies on the Python interface provided by the NEURON simulator.

Proper citation: LFPy (RRID:SCR_014805) Copy   

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http://senselab.med.yale.edu

The SenseLab Project is a long-term effort to build integrated, multidisciplinary models of neurons and neural systems. It was founded in 1993 as part of the original Human Brain Project, which began the development of neuroinformatics tools in support of neuroscience research. It is now part of the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) and the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF). The SenseLab project involves novel informatics approaches to constructing databases and database tools for collecting and analyzing neuroscience information, using the olfactory system as a model, with extension to other brain systems. SenseLab contains seven related databases that support experimental and theoretical research on the membrane properties: CellPropDB, NeuronDB, ModelDB, ORDB, OdorDB, OdorMapDB, BrainPharmA pilot Web portal that successfully integrates multidisciplinary neurocience data.

Proper citation: SenseLab (RRID:SCR_007276) Copy   

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http://research.mssm.edu/cnic/

Center to advance research and training in mathematical, computational and modern imaging approaches to understanding the brain and its functions. Software tools and associated reconstruction data produced in the center are available. Researchers study the relationships between neural function and structure at levels ranging from the molecular and cellular, through network organization of the brain. This involves the development of new computational and analytic tools for imaging and visualization of 3-D neural morphology, from the gross topologic characteristics of the dendritic arbor to the fine structure of spines and their synapses. Numerical simulations of neural mechanisms based on these structural data are compared with in-vivo and in-vitro electrophysiological recordings. The group also develops new theoretical and analytic approaches to exploring the function of neural models of working memory. The goal of this analytic work is to combine biophysically realistic models and simulations with reduced mathematical models that capture essential dynamical behaviors while reproducing the functionally important features of experimental data. Research areas include: Imaging Studies, Volume Integration, Visualization Techniques, Medial Axis Extraction, Spine Detection and Classification, Applications of Rayburst, Analysis of Spatially Complex Structures, Computational Modeling, Mathematical and Analytic Studies

Proper citation: Computational Neurobiology and Imaging Center (RRID:SCR_013317) Copy   

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https://www.microns-explorer.org/

Portal to release connectivity and functional imaging data collected by consortium of laboratories led by groups at Allen Institute for Brain Science, Princeton University, and Baylor College of Medicine, with support from broad array of teams, coordinated and funded by IARPA MICrONS program. Data include large scale electron microscopy based reconstructions of cortical circuitry from mouse visual cortex, with corresponding functional imaging data from those same neurons.

Proper citation: Microns Explorer (RRID:SCR_021678) Copy   

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http://www.opensourcebrain.org

A resource for sharing and collaboratively developing computational models of neural systems. While models can be submitted and developed in any format, the use of open standards such as NeuroML and PyNN is encouraged, to ensure transparency, modularity, accessibility and cross simulator portability. OSB will provide advanced facilities to analyze, visualize and transform models in these formats, and to connect researchers interested in models of specific neurons, brain regions and disease states. Research themes include: Basal ganglia modelling, Cerebellar Granule cell modelling, Cerebellar modelling, Hippocampal modelling, Neocortical modelling, Whole brain models. Additional themes are welcome.

Proper citation: Open Source Brain (RRID:SCR_001393) Copy   

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http://www.mbfbioscience.com/neurolucida

Neurolucida is advanced scientific software for brain mapping, neuron reconstruction, anatomical mapping, and morphometry. Since its debut more than 20 years ago, Neurolucida has continued to evolve and has become the worldwide gold-standard for neuron reconstruction and 3D mapping. Neurolucida has the flexibility to handle data in many formats: using live images from digital or video cameras; stored image sets from confocal microscopes, electron microscopes, and scanning tomographic sources, or through the microscope oculars using the patented LucividTM. Neurolucida controls a motorized XYZ stage for integrated navigation through tissue sections, allowing for sophisticated analysis from many fields-of-view. Neurolucidas Serial Section Manager integrates unlimited sections into a single data file, maintaining each section in aligned 3D space for full quantitative analysis. Neurolucidas neuron tracing capabilities include 3D measurement and reconstruction of branching processes. Neurolucida also features sophisticated tools for mapping delineate and map anatomical regions for detailed morphometric analyses. Neurolucida uses advanced computer-controlled microscopy techniques to obtain accurate results and speed your work. Plug-in modules are available for confocal and MRI analysis, 3D solid modeling, and virtual slide creation. The user-friendly interface gives you rapid results, allowing you to acquire data and capture the full 3D extent of neurons and brain regions. You can reconstruct neurons or create 3D serial reconstructions directly from slides or acquired images, and Neurolucida offers full microscope control for brightfield, fluorescent, and confocal microscopes. Its added compatibility with 64-bit Microsoft Vista enables reconstructions with even larger images, image stacks, and virtual slides. Adding the Solid Modeling Module allows you to rotate and view your reconstructions in real time. Neurolucida is available in two separate versions Standard and Workstation. The Standard version enables control of microscope hardware, whereas the Workstation version is used for offline analysis away from the microscope. Neurolucida provides quantitative analysis with results presented in graphical or spreadsheet format exportable to Microsoft Excel. Overall, features include: - Tracing Neurons - Anatomical Mapping - Image Processing and Analysis Features - Editing - Morphometric Analysis - Hardware Integration - Cell Analysis - Visualization Features Sponsors: Neurolucida is supported by MBF Bioscience.

Proper citation: Neurolucida (RRID:SCR_001775) Copy   

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http://data.neuinfo.org/modelrun

Data set of output of neuron models through the Trestles supercomputer.

Proper citation: ModelRun (RRID:SCR_001532) Copy   

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