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Databases and Data Repositories in Computational Neuroscience: Overview

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Computational neuroscience research often produces models that help explain empirical data and provide predictions about the biological systems that produce the data. Empirical and theoretical researchers can benefit from resources that facilitate model publication and exchange and provide neuroscience data that informs and contains these existing and future models.

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Databases of Computational Models

One category of databases in computational neuroscience is those that focus on computational models. The BioModels database (Li et al. 2010; Vijayalakshmi et al. 2013) is a general repository of computational models of biological processes that includes some models from neuroscience. The SenseLab database, ModelDB, (Migliore et al. 2003) provides a resource for published neuroscience models in a variety of formats. Many of these were developed specifically for simulating the electrophysiological and neurochemical properties of single neurons and networks of...

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  1. School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Richard C. Gerkin

  2. Centre for High-Throughput Biology and Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada

    Shreejoy J. Tripathy

  3. School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, 85287-1804, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Sharon Crook

  4. School of Computer Science and Communication, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden

    Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski

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  1. Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

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  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA

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Gerkin, R.C., Tripathy, S.J., Crook, S., Kotaleski, J.H. (2015). Databases and Data Repositories in Computational Neuroscience: Overview. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6675-8_780

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