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Please spread the word, especially to students interested in modelling. We will help them learn the NeuroML ecosystem so they can use its standardised pipeline in their work.

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In this way, NeuroML supports #FAIR principles, thus promoting open, transparent and reproducible science. Whether you’d like to use NeuroML in your work, or support NeuroML in your tools/modelling pipelines, please come speak to us. Full documentation on NeuroML is here at docs.neuroml.org 13/13

NeuroML is a global community initiative. It is developed by an elected Editorial Board and overseen by a Scientific Committee. All the software/documentation/models produced in NeuroML are completely Free/Open #FOSS. 12/x

... visualising (#pyNeuroML, #OSB, #NeuroML-DB), simulating (#NEURON, #NetPyNE, #Brian, #PyNN, #NEST, #MOOSE, #EDEN), model fitting/optimisation (#NeuroTune, #BluePyOpt, #NetPyNE), sharing and reusing of models (#OSB, NeuroML-DB, #NeuroMorpho.org). 11/x

#NeuroML supports all stages of the modelling life-cycle with a vast ecosystem of software tools: creating (#pyNeuroML, #neuroConstruct, #NEURON, #NetPyNE, #PyNN, #N2A), validating (#pyNeuroML, #OMV, #SciUnit), .. 10/x

You can also create new model elements if existing ones aren’t enough AND because NeuroML is designed to be modular and hierarchical, ALL model elements are independent and can be reused in any NeuroML models. See the full specification here: docs.neuroml.org/Userdocs/Spe... 9/x

#NeuroML provides a curated set of model elements for researchers to use. This includes simpler single compartment cells, but also bits required to build detailed multi-compartmental cells , synapse models, networks/projections, and network inputs such as spike trains and pulse generators 8/x

#NeuroML provides a simulator independent standard and software tools. The idea is that researchers can use NeuroML to build their models, and these models will “just run” in any of the supported simulators. 7/x

This is great but it also means that researchers need to learn each of these individually to use them. It also means that tools and models developed for one don’t necessarily work for others and need to be manually converted. This is often a non-trivial task and limits model reuse. 6/x

A number of software tools are available for construction and simulation of models: #NEURON, #NetPyNE, #Brian, #PyNN, #NEST, #MOOSE, #EDEN etc.. These have their own features, styles, programming interfaces (APIs). 5/x

If we are to understand the _mechanisms_ underlying various brain processes, we must build data-driven biophysically detailed models of the brain. Models allow us to generate new predictions that can be tested in laboratories—closing the “#neuroscience research loop”. 4/x

While our main source of information on the brain—how/what/where/why/when it does things—are “wet” experiments, models and theory are necessary to combine the many specific, isolated findings that experiments generate into coherent theories of brain function. 3/x

#NeuroML is a standard and software ecosystem for data-driven biophysically detailed #ComputationalModelling endorsed by the @incforg.bsky.social and #CoMBINE, and includes a large community of users and software developers. 2/x