Announcing a workshop which will be the kick off meeting of the Open Source Brain initiative (http://www.opensourcebrain.org). This aims to create a public, open source repository of detailed neuron and network models from multiple brain regions and species, which can be collaboratively developed and contributed to by the whole community. The workshop will be held from May 13-15 in Alghero, Sardinia.
This initial workshop will concentrate on modelling of the cerebellum, and will bring together a number of modellers, experimentalists and software developers who are interested in producing a set of well tested, cross simulator cell and network models of the cerebellum. Modellers of other brain regions are also welcome and there will be tutorials and hands on sessions on the technologies behind OSB and collaborative model development.
The models on OSB are shared via public, open source repositories (e.g. at GitHub), and can be submitted in any simulator format or modelling language, with the aim of converting the core physiological elements to simulator independent formats like NeuroML and PyNN, to allow them to be simulated/analysed/visualised in the widest possible range of applications.
The meeting is free to attend, but registration is required (deadline April 15th). Please see http://www.opensourcebrain.org/projects/osb/wiki/Meetings for more details.
The OSB initiative is primarily supported by the Wellcome Trust.
Confirmed speakers
Egidio D'Angelo
Chris De Zeeuw
Arnd Roth
Angus Silver
Volker Steuber
Organising committee
Matteo Cantarelli
Sharon Crook
Padraig Gleeson
Eugenio Piasini
Angus Silver
Sergio Solinas
Irene Solinas
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