This directory contains stand-alone utility programs that may be used with GENESIS.
electrotonic - contains two C programs by Alex Protopapas which can be used with GENESIS cell parameter files to calculate the electrotonic lengths of compartments in the cell. This will be useful to visualize changes in electrotonic length in an anatomically realistic way, and to create dendrograms.
gencompress - GENESIS user Cengiz has contributed the utility "Gencompress" that can achieve average 10:1 compression ratios for intracellular voltage traces recorded from GENESIS simulations. It can operate on files created with the disk_out method.
mesh - Version 2.9.3 of Rogene Eichler West's program for converting Eutectic NTS format cell morphology descriptions into cell descriptor files suitable for use with GENESIS, NEURON or custom simulators. The mesh size, or number of compartments, is determined by the electrotonic criteria specified by the user at run time.
postscript - A perl script contributed by Randy Gobbel which shrinks the size of postscript files generated by GENESIS, when typing ctrl-p in a graph. Some of these optimizations have been included in GENESIS 2.1.
xplot - This is the xplot program, a plotting program originally written by Matt Wilson, and modified by Mike Vanier. This program (which is unrelated to the GENESIS object of the same name), may be used to view the results of parameter fits and to compare them with the target data. It also has many other uses outside of GENESIS, such as plotting data output by MOOSE.