Manifesto

The contents of this site is shared with everyone in the world, and it is hoped that it will be useful and appreciated at least by properly citing it.
 
What is sim4stim's reason to be? Not long ago I inquired about a version of NCS (the Neo-Cortical Simulator - code that's apparently running as part of the Blue-Brain project) that I could run on my laptop... And was told that noone knew of such a version. For now this should suffice for a preliminary motivation. Next, go to sim4stim's docs and most of all get to know it. There is only  one way to get convinced of the beauty of 'sim4stim' - use it! Then, in the process, you may find that it has some 'raison d'etre'... And even contribute in non-duplicate efforts of enhancing sim4stim and making it a compatible piece in the computational neuroscientist's tool set, together with all the other more or less known.

Thanks for the generous help and encouragement of Eb Fetz, John Kalaska and Andrew Richardson, without whom this site would
never had been

Finally, a wish is expressed for collaboration on sim4stim code improvement and further development: send me a note with your ideas and suggestions: e.g. on how to
* make sim4stim most useful for you and your team;
* work best together
* anything you may want to add or change

Data and code to reproducibly generate given results and figures from papers written about or using sim4stim can be found at http://sites.google.com/site/sim4susr/ .

Note:
Sometimes it may be easier to use 'off the shelf' stuff (e.g. NEST, which is becoming really available only now i.e. 2 years after we started this endeavour. NEST was available already in 2007, but it was impossible to modify synapses while a simulation was running. They have implemented STDP only recently).
Cross-pollination with others is heartily encouraged too!

(c) 2009 Nedialko Krouchev et al.