BRIAN simulator

The Brian website looks weird! It’s not going to last! We have been hacked by some trojan (not the software, just the website) and we had to remove everything. The content is back, but all the settings have gone. It will take a little while to put everything back to the original configuration, please be [...]

We have just released Brian 1.3.1, available via easy_install -U brian or from our download page. This is a minor release, but there are some nice new features and many small improvements (listed below). Minor features: New PoissonInput class New ... [More] auditory model: TanCarney (brian.hears) Many more examples from papers New electrode compensation module (in library.electrophysiology) New trace analysis module (in library.electrophysiology) Added new [...] [Less]

We are organizing a competition, the “Brian twister”: write an example script for the Brian simulator and win a Brian mug! A winning entry: is short and self-consistent is easy to read does something cool (e.g. something related to a paper) For ... [More] example, this short script simulates a synfire chain (Diesmann et al., 1999): http://www.briansimulator.org/docs/examples-frompapers_Diesmann_et_al_1999.html The goal of this competition is to [...] [Less]

We are doing an anonymous survey to improve the Brian simulator (http://briansimulator.org). If you are a Brian user, please consider taking 5 minutes to answer these questions: ... [More] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEVlaTVFczBDS1FtZW5wYXl3cmFpVFE6MQ No question is mandatory. Your feedback will be extremely helpful for us! It is also the opportunity for you to tell us what improvements you would [...] [Less]

The following paper on Brian Hears was just accepted for publication: Fontaine B, Goodman DFM, Benichoux V, Brette R (2011). Brian Hears: online auditory processing using vectorisation over channels. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics (in press) ... [More] [preprint] Abstract The human cochlea includes about 3000 inner hair cells which filter sounds at frequencies between 20 Hz and 20 kHz. This massively [...] [Less]

The following paper has just been accepted for publication: Rossant C, Fontaine B, Goodman DFM (2011). Playdoh: a lightweight Python package for distributed computing and optimisation. Journal of Computational Science (in press) Abstract Parallel ... [More] computing is now an essential paradigm for high performance scientific computing. Most existing hardware and software solutions are expensive or difficult to use. We [...] [Less]

In a recent survey, Brian was voted the second most popular of 18 neural simulators, just after Neuron.

We’ve just added a new Showcase section to the website. Here we’ll list any projects that make use of or include Brian, or any cool demos and so forth developed by other people. When we add new things to the showcase we’ll post a News item on the website.

The 1.3 release of Brian is out! The major change in this version is the addition of the Brian.hears package for auditory modelling. This version also includes an update to the toolbox for fitting neural models to electrophysiological recordings ... [More] (which now uses version 0.3 of the parallel optimization package Playdoh), remote control of Brian scripts, and [...] [Less]

We have just been informed by the Frontiers Editorial Staff that our first paper on Brian for Frontiers in Neuroinformatics was the second most cited paper across all the Frontiers journals since its publication in 2008. This paper was published as part of a special issue on Python in neuroscience which appears to have been very [...]