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Open Source Brain (http://www.opensourcebrain.org) is an online repository of computational models of ion channels, synapses, neurons, simple network models, and more detailed three-dimensional models of neuronal microcircuits from multiple brain regions and species. It is intended to facilitate sharing and collaborative development of neuronal models by researchers around the world.
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The ever-increasing complexity of models and applications used in computational neuroscience makes it clear that no one researcher or lab can implement and maintain detailed models which are applicable to a broad range of research questions and can be used across the diverse applications available for simulation and analysis. A more collaborative approach to neuronal model development, inspired by the success of the open source software movement, is required (Davison 2012). The Open Source Brain repository (OSB, http://www.opensourcebrain.org) is being developed to enable...
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Gleeson, P., Silver, A., Cantarelli, M. (2014). Open Source Brain. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_595-3
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