title: Creating, documenting and sharing network models.
abstract: As computational neuroscience matures, many simulation environments are available that are useful for neuronal network modeling. However, methods for successfully documenting models for publication and for exchanging models and model components among these projects are still under development. Here we briefly review existing software and applications for network model creation, documentation and exchange. Then we discuss a few of the larger issues facing the field of computational neuroscience regarding network modeling and suggest solutions to some of these problems, concentrating in particular on standardized network model terminology, notation, and descriptions and explicit documentation of model scaling. We hope this will enable and encourage computational neuroscientists to share their models more systematically in the future.
authors.affiliation: School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA. sharon.crook@asu.edu
authors.forename: Sharon M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Crook
authors.forename: James A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Bednar
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Berger
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cannon
authors.forename: Andrew P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Davison
authors.forename: Mikael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Djurfeldt
authors.forename: Jochen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Eppler
authors.forename: Birgit
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kriener
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Furber
authors.forename: Bruce
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Graham
authors.forename: Hans E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Plesser
authors.forename: Lars
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Schwabe
authors.forename: Leslie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Volker
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Steuber
authors.forename: Sacha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: van Albada
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology*; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D009626:Terminology as Topic