The main parts of this demo consists of :
- NEURON + Python tutorial
- Extracting electrical features from in vitro recordings
- Optimising parameters of a simple neuron model
This tutorial is presented by Elisabetta Iavarone (@ Blue Brain Project, Geneva, Switzerland)
Date: July 15 2017
- Start: 13:30
- Solving installation problems (max 20 min)
- Introduction (Presentation, ~ 20 min)
- NEURON tutorial Part. 1 (~ 1 hour)
- Coffe break
- NEURON tutorial Part. 2 (~ 30 minutes)
- eFEL tutorial (15 minutes notebook demo + 10 minutes exercise)
- BluePyOpt tutorial (30 minutes notebook demo + 15 minutes exercise)
- 2017/07/13: Added a first version of the tutorial
A Google drive was created with material for the tutorial:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_t-Q_iriAyAaW9QdFFLb05pVG8?usp=sharing
This drive contains a Virtual Machine (.ova file) that can be used to run the demoed software, donwload the file with "final" in the filename.
Please follow the instructions here to install VirtualBox so that you can run the VM on your machine.
The login information for the VM: username=cns2017 password=cns2017
Please ignore all update requests from the OS inside the VM.
- If you get errors while running the VM regarding '64-bit' or 'VT-x', try to run the VM on the Google drive with '32bit' in the filename
- You might get an error about 'shared folder' when first opening the .ova file, you can ignore these.
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