Brian swMATH ID: 23588 Software Authors: Goodman DFM, Brette R Description: Brian: a simulator for spiking neural networks in python. ”Brian” is a new simulator for spiking neural networks, written in Python (http://brian. di.ens.fr). It is an intuitive and highly flexible tool for rapidly developing new models, especially networks of single-compartment neurons. In addition to using standard types of neuron models, users can define models by writing arbitrary differential equations in ordinary mathematical notation. Python scientific libraries can also be used for defining models and analysing data. Vectorisation techniques allow efficient simulations despite the overheads of an interpreted language. Brian will be especially valuable for working on non-standard neuron models not easily covered by existing software, and as an alternative to using Matlab or C for simulations. With its easy and intuitive syntax, Brian is also very well suited for teaching computational neuroscience. Homepage: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19115011 Related Software: NEURON; NEST; Pynn; Python; TensorFlow; Matlab; SpiNNaker; PyNEST; Nengo; XPPAUT; PCSIM; NxTF; SpikeCoding; MNIST; Keras; PyTorch; Neko; Octave; PyDSTool; AUTO Cited in: 21 Publications all top 5 Cited by 61 Authors 2 Brette, Romain 2 Destexhe, Alain 1 Amarasingham, Asohan 1 Andalibi, Vafa 1 beim Graben, Peter 1 Bellec, Guillaume 1 Buhry, Laure 1 Campbell, Sue Ann 1 Chavane, Frederic 1 Chemla, Sandrine 1 Deng, Bin 1 Depannemaecker, Damien 1 d’Haene, Michiel 1 Drion, Guillaume 1 Dura-Bernal, Salvador 1 Elibol, Rahmi 1 English, Daniel 1 Ferguson, Katie A. 1 Galtier, Mathieu N. 1 Górski, Tomasz 1 Gürcan, Önder 1 Han, Chunxiao 1 Hermans, Michiel 1 Higgins, Irina 1 Hines, Michael L. 1 Hokkanen, Henri 1 Hutt, Axel 1 Ingber, Lester 1 Lytton, William W. 1 McDougal, Robert A. 1 McKenzie, Sam 1 McLaughlin, David W. 1 Nicola, Wilten 1 Njap, Felix 1 Pappalepore, Marco 1 Platkiewicz, Jonathan 1 Rodrigues, Serafim 1 Saccomano, Zachary 1 Schnupp, Jan W. H. 1 Schrauwen, Benjamin 1 Schürmann, Felix 1 Seidenstein, Alexandra H. 1 Sengor, Neslihan Serap 1 Sepulchre, Rodolphe J. 1 Skinner, Frances K. 1 Stesiak, Ronald R. 1 Stringer, Simon M. 1 Tagluk, Mehmet Emin 1 Tekin, Ramazan 1 Thul, Rüdiger 1 Tsang, Kai Ming 1 van Pottelbergh, Tomas 1 Vanni, Simo 1 Wang, Jiang 1 Wang, Ziqi 1 Wei, Xile 1 Yger, Pierre 1 Yi, Guosheng 1 Yin, Yonghua 1 Zachariou, Margarita 1 Zerlaut, Yann Cited in 5 Serials 8 Journal of Computational Neuroscience 7 Neural Computation 3 Biological Cybernetics 1 Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences 1 Journal of Theoretical Biology all top 5 Cited in 7 Fields 20 Biology and other natural sciences (92-XX) 2 Computer science (68-XX) 1 Ordinary differential equations (34-XX) 1 Dynamical systems and ergodic theory (37-XX) 1 Probability theory and stochastic processes (60-XX) 1 Statistics (62-XX) 1 Quantum theory (81-XX) Citations by Year