Редактирование: Whole brain emulation (раздел)

=== Existing Simulators ===

==== NEURON ====

The primary software used by the BBP for neural simulations is a package called NEURON. This was developed starting in the 1990s by Michael Hines at Yale University and John Moore at Duke University. It is written in C, C++, and FORTRAN. The software continues to be under active development and, as of July 2012, is currently at version 7.2. It is free and open source software, both the code and the binaries are freely available on the website. Michael Hines and the BBP team collaborated in 2005 to port the package to the massively parallel Blue Gene supercomputer.

The NEURON Simulation Environment (aka NEURON --see http://www.neuron.yale.edu/) is designed for modeling individual neurons and networks of neurons, and is widely used by experimental and theoretical neuroscientists. It provides tools for conveniently building, managing, and using models that are numerically sound and computationally efficient. NEURON is particularly well-suited to problems that are closely linked to experimental data, especially those that involve cells with complex anatomical and biophysical properties.
NEURON began in the laboratory of John W. Moore at Duke University, where he and Michael Hines started their collaboration to develop simulation software for neuroscience research. It has benefited from judicious revision and selective enhancement, guided by feedback from the growing number of neuroscientists who have used it to incorporate empirically-based modeling into their research strategies. Most papers that report work done with NEURON have addressed the operation and functional consequences of mechanistic models of biological neurons and networks. Readers who wish to see specific examples are encouraged to peruse the online bibliography. Working code for many published NEURON models can be downloaded from ModelDB.

* [http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/ Site]
* [http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Neuron_simulation_environment Scholarpedia article]

==== GENESIS ====

* [http://www.genesis-sim.org/GENESIS/ Site]

==== PSICS ====

* [http://www.psics.org/ Site]

[[File:PSICS screenshot.jpg|thumb|A screenshot of the Parallel Stochastic Ion Channel Simulator, the most detailed model of neurons achievable today. Each dot in the image is an individual ion channel.]]