Contents

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Introduction

GENESIS Scripting

Some preliminaries

Getting started with GENESIS programming

GENESIS Scripting Example

tutorial1.g

A Basic Tutorial on GENESIS - Constructing a Simple Compartment

Some Notation

Getting Started

Interpreter Basics

Basic Objects

Creating Elements

Examining Elements

Moving About in the Hierarchy

Modifying Elements

Running a Simulation

Adding Graphics

Linking Elements

Adding Buttons to a Form

Making realistic neural compartments

Tutorial2.g

Building a cell the easy way

SimpleCell.g

cell.p

Creating channel prototypes

protodefs.g

Creating the graphics

graphics.g

An exercise (highly recommended):

Another exercise

Making synaptic connections

Adding synapses and providing synaptic input

Building small networks and circuits

Creating large networks with GENESIS

The example simulation

Constructing the network

Some other things to try

What next?

Where do we go from here?

Using implicit numerical methods

Spike train objects in GENESIS

Using GENESIS on parallel computers

Other examples and GENESIS features

Appendix: Detours

Detour 1: Building a cell without the cell reader

Detour 2: Creating and modifying channel models

Detour 3: Making more realistic (cortical) cell models

Why bother?

Building the model

References

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