Neuron (software)

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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. NEURON is a
simulation environment for modeling individual neurons and networks of
neurons. It was primarily developed by Michael Hines, John W. Moore, and
Ted Carnevale at Yale and Duke. NEURON models individual neurons via the
use of sections which are subdivided into individual compartments by the
program, instead of requiring the user to manually create the
compartments. The primary scripting language that is used to interact
with it is hoc but a Python interface is also available. The programs
for it can be written interactively in a shell, or loaded from a file.
NEURON supports parallelization via the MPI protocol. Also, starting
with NEURON 7.0 parallelization is possible via internal multithreaded
routines, for use on computers with multiple cores. The properties of
the membrane channels of the neuron are simulated using compiled
mechanisms written using the NMODL language.