This directory contains scripts for various network models that have been implemented with GENESIS. (Additional contributions are welcome!) Generally, there will be both a directory for the simulation that you can browse (along with README files describing the contents), and a compressed archive file that you can download.
GENESIS_HH_benchmark - Contains the GENESIS implementations of the Vogels and Abbott (2005) model using single compartment neurons with Hodgkin-Huxley dynamics. This was used as a benchmark for neural simulators in the review by Brette et al. (2007). The README file gives gives further details.
hippo2 - This contains a small hippocampal network model consisting of 72 pyramidal cells (Traub 94 model) and 18 interneurons (similar to that submitted by Menschik and available in cells/traub95, but developed independently). Developed and submitted by Kerstin Menne. The simulation scripts are accompanied by extensive documentation in README files and pdf files of her thesis and two papers.
hippo2-extras - The archive in this directory contains supplementary files with examplary network output data that were originally included with the "hippo2" hippocampal network model contributed by Kerstin Menne, and that were removed to save space. When unpacked, the 38 MB gzipped tar file hippo2_data.tar.gz will produce a hippo2_data/ directory that is about 137 MB in size, so be sure that you want it!
synfirenet - Contains an example of a more abstract type of network connectivity, the synfire chain. These scripts were developed by Dieter Jaeger as as an exercise in script programming of networks, and the scripts were designed to be easily modified. The network model also allows Hebbian learning. The main script is netsim.g. The GUI lets you experiment with the model, and the HELP menu offers suggestions on ways to modify the model. The README file explains about synfire chains and the details of this model.
tritonia - This is the GENESIS 1.4 version of the three neuron model of the tritonia CPG described in Chapter 6 (by Peter Getting) of "Methods in Neuronal Modeling", edited by Christof Koch and Idan Segev. It would be a nice student project to convert this to GENESIS 2 syntax.
TurtleVisCortex - This is the Nenadic et al. (2003) large scale model of turtle visual cortex. It contains 368 lateral neurons, 311 medial neurons, 20 horizontal, 45 stellate neurons, and 44 subpial neurons in a simulated 1.6 x 1.6 mm piece of cortex. There are also 201 LGN input neurons.