I tried several times to reply directly to the poster, but bounced
every time, so I'm posting to the newsgroup, since others may be
interested as well.
tbrannon at csee.lehigh.edu wrote:
> Could you fill me in on GENESIS? Ie, obtaining, features?
GENESIS is a biological neural net simulator developed by Jim Bower's
group at Caltech. It uses X Windows and has a nice graphical user
interface called XODUS. You can model individual neurons or networks
of them. There are a number of neural net simulators available.
Several of them are discussed and compared in an article in the
November 1992 issue of Trends in Neurosciences:
E. De Schutter (1992) "A consumer guide to neuronal modeling
software" TINS 15:462-464.
There is a table in that article giving addresses for the people
responsible for the packages it discusses. The GENESIS contact is
C. Ploegaert
Division of Biology
216-76
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125
FAX 818-795-2088
genesis at cns.caltech.edu
By the way, that whole issue of TINS is about modeling the nervous
system, so you might want to check it out.
John
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John E. Anderson
W. M. Keck Structural Biology Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
