Python NineML User Documentation

Welcome to the documentation for Python NineML. This page describes:

• the process for installing Python NineML.
• an introduction to building and simulating Python NineML components.
• some examples of components written in Python NineML.

Installation

• Installing Python
• Installing lxml
• Installing PLY
• Installing the nineml package
• Updating the nineml package

Abstraction Layer Quickstart

• Basic Structure of NineML Abstraction Layer
  • Interfaces: Parameters and Ports
  • Dynamics: Regimes & StateVariables
  • Transitions: Events, Conditions & Assignments
  • Multiple Regimes & Transitions
• Further Classes
  • Aliases
  • Reduce Ports
  • Specifying Mathematical Strings
• Importing and Exporting
  • Exporting
  • Importing
• Hierchical Components
  • Subcomponents
  • Namespaces & Port Connections:
  • Flattening Components
• Simulating
  • Interfacing directly to NEURON
  • Interfacing to PyNN (NEST & NEURON)

User Layer Quickstart

Todo

Information about the User-Layer

Examples

• Abstraction Layer
  • Example - aeIF
  • Example - Coba Synapse
  • Example - Destexhe Synapse
  • Example - HH
  • Example - IAF SFA RelRef
  • Example - IF Cond Exp
  • Example - Iz1
  • Example - Iz2
  • Example - Leaky Iaf
  • Example - Morris Lecar
  • Example - NMDA

Futher Information

More information for developers