Common computational tools - conorhoughton/COMS30127 GitHub Wiki

This is a list of computational tools commonly used in neuroscience though not discussed in this course.

Brian, a python package for writing neuron simulations: http://briansimulator.org/

NEURON for large biophysical simulations of neurons: http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/](http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/)

GENESIS, the rival to NEURON: http://www.genesis-sim.org/

NEST, for simulating very large networks of simple neurons: http://www.nest-initiative.org/

XPP, a powerful tool for investigating dynamical systems of the sort found in neuroscience: http://www.math.pitt.edu/~bard/xpp/xpp.html

Open Source Brain, a set of tool for sharing neuronal simulations: http://www.opensourcebrain.org/

NeuroML, a markup language for neuron models: http://www.neuroml.org/