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Open Source Brain

Open Source Brain is a web based platform for sharing computational models and experimental data in neuroscience. It promotes open, collaborative development of data-driven models of neural systems. Standards are used to ensure accessibility and reusability - NeuroML for models and NeuroData Without Borders (NWB) for data.

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NeuroML

NeuroML is a specification language for building and exchanging models of neurons and circuits, ranging from simple integrate and fire point neurons to 3D networks of morphologically detailed conductance based cell models.

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OpenWorm

The OpenWorm project is global collaboration to create an open source, cell-by-cell computer simulation of the nematode C. elegans. A simulation of the nervous system of the worm in NeuroML format has been linked to a 3D model of the body of the worm which can interact with a simulated external environment.

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MDF - Model Description Format

The motivation for MDF (Model Description Format) was the increasing use of neural networks across the fields computational neuroscience, machine learning and cognitive science to describe how networks intelligently process information. The MDF language, being developed by ModECI (Model Exchange and Convergence Initiative), is intended to be a unified way to describe network models as computational graphs across all of these disciplines.

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