Beyond NeuroML: EDEN-specific extensions

NeuroML and LEMS support modelling a fairly wide range of sub-system dynamics of interactions, but often these are not enough to capture all the properties that that modellers ask for. EDEN offers a further set of capabilities that can support an even wider variety of model dynamics, while keeping most of the model description within official NeuroML.

• Extended LEMS paths
  • LEMS paths for cell locations
  • LEMS paths for input list elements
  • LEMS paths for synaptic projection elements
  • LEMS paths for input streams
• Custom per-element variability
  • The EdenCustomSetup file specification
  • Example: A network with variability over neurons, synapses and probes
• Arbitrary parameters on spatially detailed cells
  • Sampling the cell’s morphology
  • Variability as distance from a plane
  • Variability as distance from an axle
  • Variability as by distance from a point in space
  • Randomised parameters
  • Aside for NEURON users
• LEMS extension: <VariableRequirement>
  • Usage
  • Examples
• Extended input-output options
  • General concepts
  • Extended output
  • Extended input
• NeuroML extension: Multiple flows per neuron
  • The <DerivedVariable> tag revisited
• LEMS extension: <WritableRequirement>
  • The <WritableRequirement> tag