The GENESIS Tutorials

From the World Association of Modelers (WAM)
Biologically Accurate Modeling Meeting (BAMM)
March 31st - April 2nd 2005, San Antonio, Texas
http:www.wam-bamm.org

CONTENTS

Introduction to Realistic Neural Modeling

David Beeman, University of Colorado, Boulder

This HTML document corresponds to the two-part tutorial given at the WAM-BAMM*05 meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

Part I - Introduction to Realistic Neural Modeling for the Beginner: This is a general overview and introduction to compartmental cell modeling and realistic network simulation for the beginner. Although examples are drawn from GENESIS simulations, the tutorial emphasizes the general modeling approach, rather than the details of using any particular simulator.

Part II - Getting Started with Modeling Using GENESIS: This builds upon the background of Part I to describe some deails of how this approach is used to construct cell and network simulations in GENESIS. It serves as an introduction and roadmap to the extended hands-on GENESIS Modeling Tutorial.

GENESIS Modeling Tutorial (WAM-BAMM 2005 edition)

This tutorial is intended to be a "quick start" to creating simulations with GENESIS. It should give you the tools and enough information to let you quickly begin creating cells and networks with GENESIS, making use of the provided example simulations. Advanced topics are covered by apppropriate links to the Advanced Tutorials on Realistic Neural Modeling.

The "README" file

This tells you how to obtain, install, and run GENESIS and the WAM-BAMM 2005 GENESIS tutorials.


Indices to external documentation at the GENESIS web site

An Introduction to Computational Neuroscience

These "webified" introductory lectures on computational neuroscience and realistic neural modeling are derived from lecture notes for an introductory biomedical engineering course at the University of Colorado. It has a section on the Hodgkin-Huxley model that might be useful to those who are studying it for the first time, or who need some review.

The GENESIS Reference Manual

PDF version of "The Book of GENESIS"