By seeking, you will discover... 2006-04-09T22:21:07Z Paul Kulchenko http://notebook.kulchenko.com/modeling/2006/04/9/ Blooki/0.4808 <h2>Modeling tools and simulators</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.genesis-sim.org/GENESIS/">Genesis</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/">Neuron</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.strout.net/conical/">Conical</a> (no longer under development)</li> <li><a href="http://www.sccn.ucsd.edu/~arno/spikenet/SpikeNET.html">SpikeNet: a neural simulator for modeling large networks of integrate and fire neurons</a> (C; source code available upon request?)</li> <li><a href="http://www.nsi.edu/users/izhikevich/publications/spnet.cpp">spnet: a neural simulator for modeling large networks of neurons</a> (C++) <ul> <li><a href="http://visl.technion.ac.il/projects/2004s20/"><span class="caps">SPN</span>et++: modified version of spnet with <span class="caps">MATLAB </span>interface</a> (C++)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://www.lsm.tugraz.at/csim/index.html"><span class="caps">CSIM</span>: A neural Circuit <span class="caps">SIM</span>ulator</a> (C++ code with <span class="caps">MATLAB </span>interface)</li> <li><a href="http://www.tijsseling.com/academic/download/seq.pdf">SequenceNet: a neural network architecture for learning temporal information</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.amygdala.org/">Amygdala</a>: software for simulating spiking neural networks (C++)</li> <li><a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/HHsim/">HHsim: Graphical Hodgkin-Huxley Simulator</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.btinternet.com/~cfinnie/index.html">Neural Viewer</a> (C++; no longer under development; no source code available)</li> <li><a href="http://www.ymer.org/research/bnntoolbox.htm">Biological Neural Networks (BNN) Toolbox</a> (MATLAB)</li> <li><a href="http://alexandria.nu/ai/neural_net_demo/">Alexandria</a></li> <li><a href="http://pages.sbcglobal.net/louis.savain/AI/Animal.htm">Animal: a spiking neural network that learns to play chess</a> (C++; no source code available)</li> <li><a href="http://www.cs.pomona.edu/~marshall/metacat/">Metacat: a self-watching cognitive architecture for analogy-making and high-level perception</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.neural-networks-at-your-fingertips.com/">Neural Networks at your Fingertips</a>; not a model, but a collection of source code examples for various neural networks</li> </ul> <h2>What would I want from a framework or a simulator?</h2> <ol> <li>It needs to implement <strong>biologically plausible</strong> models </li> <li>It needs to be <strong>fast</strong> enough to model tens of thousands on neurons with 1ms step (#1 and #2 usually don't come together)</li> <li>It needs to provide an interface for <strong>developing</strong> simulations and <strong>monitoring</strong> their execution with <strong>real-time visualization</strong> (ideally as good as <a href="http://www.btinternet.com/~cfinnie/index.html">Neural Viewer</a> does) and network activity diagrams</li> <li>It needs to be easily <strong>configurable</strong>. All network parameters and their visualization should be compactly specified</li> <li>It should support various <strong>sensory and motor systems</strong></li> <li>It should provide a <strong>comprehensive set of networks</strong> to play with</li> </ol> http://notebook.kulchenko.com/modeling/neural-modeling-tools-and-simulators 2006-04-09T22:21:07Z 2006-04-09T22:21:07Z