[Neuroinfo] Open Source Brain Hackathon 2013: multicompartmental cell & network models of the cortex

[Padraig Gleeson]

Dear colleagues,

The Wellcome Trust funded Open Source Brain initiative is organising a 
meeting in London on 6th & 7th November focussing on open source 
modelling of detailed cells and networks from the cortex: 
http://www.opensourcebrain.org/projects/osb/wiki/Meetings.

This has been inspired by the fact that there are a number of published 
models of neocortical cells and networks which are being reused & 
extended by different groups worldwide. An example is the 
thalamocortical network model of Roger Traub and colleagues from 2005. 
Versions of this model have been developed in parallel in NEURON, MOOSE, 
NeuroML in addition to the original FORTRAN version.

We aim to start a process where this model and other widely used models 
will be available in open source, well tested, standards based formats, 
and will be available for the whole community to use and extend for 
their research.

This will be a hands on coding meeting with all output available 
immediately in the public domain. Researchers can of course keep all of 
their code for analysis and investigating new research questions 
private, but will benefit from the core model definitions being stable, 
and tested by multiple labs.

Regards,
Padraig

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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
p.gleeson at ucl.ac.uk
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