Connectionists: Special Issue on Realistic Neural Modeling (OA eJournal Brains, Minds, and Media)

[Soeren Lorenz]

(Apologies for multiple postings)
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SPECIAL ISSUE ON REALISTIC NEURAL MODELING
Brains, Minds & Media - open access eJournal
http://www.brains-minds-media.org
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Now available, free online access:
Special Issue on Realistic Neural Modeling - Wam-Bamm '05 Tutorials.
Guest Editors: James M. Bower and David Beeman

http://www.brains-minds-media.org/current

THE ISSUE
This special issue provides article versions of eight tutorials
presented at the 1st Conference of the World Association of Modelers:
Biologically Accurate Modeling Meeting (WAM-BAMM '05), held in San
Antonio, Texas, in March 2005. The issue is introduced by the viewpoint
"Looking for Newton: Realistic Modeling in Modern Biology" by James M.
Bower.

GENERAL
The issue deals with methods and practical implications of biologically
accurate modeling and offers introductory and advanced tutorials mainly
based on the tools GENESIS and NEURON. Some contributions provide
supplementary material, such as GENESIS source code, detailed modeling
and user instructions or visualisations.

TOPICS
Part of the articles covers questions of realistic modeling ranging from
a general introduction to modeling of single cells, calcium
concentrations, biochemical pathways, and synaptic input patterns. The
other articles are concerned with tools and techniques, like how to use
GENESIS and P-GENESIS for modeling, recent developments in NEURON and
the role of XML for model specifications in neuroscience.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
*Looking for Newton: Realistic Modeling in Modern Biology
by James M. Bower
*Introduction to Realistic Neural Modeling
by David Beeman
*GENESIS Modeling Tutorial (Wam-Bamm'05 Edition)
by David Beeman
*Recent Developments in NEURON
by Michael Hines and Nicholas T. Carnevale
*Realistic Single Cell Modeling - from Experiment to Simulation
by Dieter Jaeger
*Modeling Calcium Concentration and Biochemical Reactions
by Kim T. Blackwell
*Simulating in vivo-like Synaptic Input Patterns in Multicompartmental
Models
by Jeremy Edgerton
*Using P-GENESIS for Parallel Simulation of GENESIS Models - a Brief
Overview
by Greg Hood
*XML for Model Specification in Neuroscience - an Introduction and
Workshop Summary
by Sharon Crook, David Beeman, Padraig Gleeson and Fred Howell

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CONTINUOUS CALL FOR SUBMISSION
'Brains, Minds & Media' is an open access eJournal and publishes 
peer-reviewed articles and media from research and education in the 
neural and cognitive sciences (http://www.brains-minds-media.org/aims). 
Future accepted contributions will be published consecutively and 
integrated ex post into volumes or (special) issues.

You are invited to submit contributions to 'Brains, Minds & Media'. More
information about manuscript submissions can be found at
http://www.brains-minds-media.org/guidelines. Please send your
submission to editors at brains-minds-media.org.
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If you have any questions, please contact info at brains-minds-media.org.

Thank you!

Soeren Lorenz (editorial co-ordinator)
soeren.lorenz at uni-bielefeld.de