2nd INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics

The 2nd INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics will take place in Pilsen, Czech Republic, from September 6th-8th 2009.

Last year's meeting in Stockholm was excellent - check out the videos of the keynote talks.

The deadline for abstract submission is April 17th.

When will NumPy and SciPy move to Python 3.0?

http://jarrodmillman.blogspot.com/2009/01/when-will-numpy-and-scipy-migrate-to.html

Python 2.6 by March 2009

Python 3.0 by mid-to-late 2010?

Once Numpy and Scipy hit 3.0, we can port NeuroTools: this shouldn't be a very difficult task, since NeuroTools is pure Python, with no C-extensions. Porting PyNN depends on the simulator backends - NEURON, NEST, PCSIM, Brian - being ported, but again, PyNN itself should be a straightforward task.

Hot off the press: PyNN, PyNEST, NEURON+Python, Brian

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, Brüderle 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/

Python 3.0 final released

"Python 3.0 (a.k.a. "Python 3000" or "Py3k") is a new version of the language that is incompatible with the 2.x line of releases. The language is mostly the same, but many details, especially how built-in objects like dictionaries and strings work, have changed considerably, and a lot of deprecated features have finally been removed. Also, the standard library has been reorganized in a few prominent places."

http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/

For what's new, go here.

Given the extent of the syntax changes, it may be a while before Python 3.0 is officially supported by NeuralEnsemble projects.

NeuroTools 0.1 (Asynchronous Astrocyte) released

NeuroTools is a Python package for analysis, visualization and management of real and simulated neuroscience data, built on top of numpy and matplotlib.

Inspired by Ubuntu, the first release is code-named "Asynchronous Astrocyte". Suggestions for names for future releases are welcome!

It is available for download from:

  http://software.incf.org/software/neurotools/home/download

or just

  easy_install NeuroTools

The NeuroTools homepage, with full documentation, is at:

  http://neuralensemble.org/NeuroTools

NeuroTools Live Demo @ INCF Booth, SfN 2008. (Nov 16; 9:30-12:30)

NeuroTools Live Demo @ SfN 2008
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Time: Nov 16; 9:30-12:30
Location: INCF Booth #3227

NeuroTools: Analysis, visualization and management of real and
simulated neuroscience data.

Jens Kremkow, Thierry Brizzi, Daniel Bruederle, Andrew Davison,
Eilif Muller, Laurent Perrinet, Michael Schmuker, Pierre Yger

http://neuralensemble.org/NeuroTools
http://www.incf.org

BCCN/FACETS Student Workshop: Using Python for Computational Neuroscience

Thanks to Jens Kremkow, Jochen Eppler, Bernd Wiebelt, the BCCN Freiburg staff and all the motivated students and lecturers for making the first BCCN/FACETS Student Workshop on Using Python for Computational Neuroscience a great success! Lecture material can be found here.