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Announcing a workshop at the CNS2015 meeting in Prague, Thursday
July 23: Open Collaboration in Computational Neuroscience<br>
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href="http://opensourcebrain.org/docs/Help/Meetings#CNS_2015">http://opensourcebrain.org/docs/Help/Meetings#CNS_2015</a>
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Building and analysing biophysically and anatomically detailed
neuronal networks is a complex and time consuming task, which
ideally involves researchers with a range of backgrounds and
technical skills. However, most labs cannot expect to have all of
these researchers present at any given time. This can lead to
stalled projects, lost data and software and needless repetition of
experimental and computational work.<br>
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A number of initiatives have been started which address these
issues. Some are creating public resources with freely available
data to constrain such models. Others are using best practices from
open source software development to encourage building and sharing
of models in a collaborative environment. This workshop will serve
as an informative introduction to these projects as well as a
discussion forum for getting feedback and gathering requirements
from the community for the developers of these initiatives. <br>
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There are still a number of slots available for <b>5-10 minute
lightning talks</b>, so if you are involved in a project in this
area and wish to publicise it, please get in contact. <br>
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<b> Confirmed speakers:</b><br>
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<p align="left">Jan Antolik (CNRS)</p>
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<p align="left">Collaboration in neuronal modelling: model
sharing, workflows and provenance</p>
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<p align="left">Nicholas Cain (Allen Brain Institute)</p>
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<p align="left">Resources for Open Collaboration at the <a
href="http://www.brain-map.org/" target="_blank">Allen
Brain Institute</a></p>
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<p align="left">Padraig Gleeson (University College London)</p>
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<p align="left"><a href="https://neuroml.org/"
target="_blank">NeuroML</a> & the <a
href="http://opensourcebrain.org/">Open Source Brain
Initiative</a></p>
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<p align="left">Adrian Quintana (University College London)</p>
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<p align="left"><a href="http://www.geppetto.org/"
target="_blank">Geppetto</a>: online visualisation &
simulation for neuronal models</p>
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<p align="left">Michael Sonntag <span style="font-weight:
normal">(LMU München)</span></p>
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<p align="left"> <a href="https://github.com/G-Node/nix"
target="_blank">The NIX Project: Comprehensive Storage
of Neuroscience Data and Metadata</a><br>
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<p align="left">Matteo Cantarelli (MetaCell Ltd)</p>
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<p align="left"><a href="http://www.openworm.org/"
target="_blank">OpenWorm</a></p>
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<p align="left">Aurel A. Lazar (Columbia University)</p>
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<p align="left"><a href="http://neurokernel.github.io/"
target="_blank">Neurokernel</a>: An Open Source Platform
for Emulating the Fruit Fly Brain</p>
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<p align="left">Bill Lytton (SUNY Downstate Medical Center)</p>
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<p align="left"><a
href="http://senselab.med.yale.edu/ModelDB/"
target="_blank">ModelDB</a></p>
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<p align="left">Eilif Muller (EPFL)</p>
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<p align="left"><a href="https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/"
target="_blank">Human Brain Project</a> resources for
the integrative modelling community</p>
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<p align="left">Shreejoy Tripathy (University of British
Columbia)</p>
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<p align="left">Open electrophysiology data and <a
href="http://neuroelectro.org/" target="_blank">Neuroelectro.org</a></p>
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Padraig Gleeson
Room 321, Anatomy Building
Department of Neuroscience, Physiology& Pharmacology
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom
+44 207 679 3214
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:p.gleeson@ucl.ac.uk">p.gleeson@ucl.ac.uk</a>
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