Hot off the press!
Several new publications of interest for NeuralEnsemblers to appear in the Frontiers in Neuroinformatics special section "Python in Neuroscience" are already available in provisional form at
http://www.frontiersin.org/neuroinformatics/specialtopics/8/
including but not limited papers on large-scale simulation technologies like PyNN, PyNEST, NEURON+Python, and Brian:
Hines M, Davison AP and Muller E (2009) NEURON and Python. Front. Neuroinform. doi:10.3389/neuro.11.013.2009
http://www.frontiersin.org/neuroinformatics/paper/10.3389/neuro.11/013.2009/
Eppler JM, Helias M, Muller E, Diesmann M and Gewaltig M (2008) PyNEST: A convenient interface to the NEST simulator. Front. Neuroinform. doi:10.3389/neuro.11.012.2008
http://www.frontiersin.org/neuroinformatics/paper/10.3389/neuro.11/012.2008/
Davison AP, BrĂ¼derle D, Eppler JM, Kremkow J, Muller E, Pecevski DA, Perrinet L and Yger P (2008) PyNN: a common interface for neuronal network simulators. Front. Neuroinform. doi:10.3389/neuro.11.011.2008
http://www.frontiersin.org/neuroinformatics/paper/10.3389/neuro.11/011.2008/
Goodman D and Brette R (2008) Brian: a simulator for spiking neural networks in Python. Front. Neuroinform. (2008) 2:5. doi:10.3389/neuro.11.005.2008
http://www.frontiersin.org/neuroinformatics/paper/10.3389/neuro.11/005.2008/