Biological Neural Network Toolbox for MATLAB: Ver 1.0

[Amir Reza Saffari Azar]

I'm pleased to announce the first release of Biological Neural Network
(BNN) Toolbox for MATLAB. This package is a free open source software
for simulating models of brain and central nervous system, based on
MATLAB computational platform. As the name of the toolbox implies, the
main goal of this package is to provide users a set of integrated tools
to create models of biological neural networks and simulate them easily,
without the need of extensive coding. Users can create and simulate a
huge network of spiking neurons in less than 10 lines of code (or even
in one line, if they give all arguments to the main function) using
predefined library functions. It is also possible to create and add new
models to the library easily, using template library items.

Current Features:
1) Users can create and simulate any kind of BNN with this toolbox.
2) Architectures: Custom, Fully Connected, Multilayer Feedforward,
Multilayer Feedforward with General, Lateral, and Local Feedbacks.
3) Spiking Neuron Models: Custom, Linear and Quadratic
Integrate-and-Fire, Hodgkin-Huxley, FitzHugh-Nagumo, Morris-Lecar,
Canonical Phase, and Izhikevich.
4) PSP Models: Custom, Two Versions of Alpha-Function, and Dirac Delta
Function.
5) Event based computation.
6) Users can select several MATLAB ODE solvers for their model.
7) Custom adaptation models.
8) Static and dynamic external inputs.
9) Custom user and stop functions.
10) Examples and Library templates.

Next versions will have an additional user friendly GUI package, will
have more library models, and will be more faster than this version.
The author would be very grateful for any comments, reviews,
discussions, bug reports, and wishes from users and believes that these
feedbacks would make this toolbox alive and evolving. If you have any
kind of model related to the neuroscience topics, including but not
limited to network architectures, neuron models, synapse models,
adaptation mechanisms, and if you want the future releases contain
these models, feel free to contact with the author.

This toolbox is created and developed by personal interests of the
author in modeling brain and CNS and is provided to other users as an
open source free software under GNU GPL. Feel free to copy, modify, and
distribute it according to the license. To obtain the latest version of
GPL, please refer to http://www.gnu.org.

Links:
Email: amir at ymer.org
Website: http://www.ymer.org
Alt. Website: http://ee.sut.ac.ir/faculty/saffari/res-bnntoolbox.htm

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"Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos"
Amir Reza Saffari Azar Alamdari
Email: amir at ymer.org
Web: http://ymer.org