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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

    Dr. James M. Bower

  2. University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, USA

    Dr. Hugo Cornelis

  3. University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

    Prof. David Beeman

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Bower, J.M., Cornelis, H., Beeman, D. (2013). GENESIS, The GEneral NEural SImulation System. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_255-1

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