This is the latest version of a complete self-paced GENESIS modeling course that has been packaged for distribution on a CDROM, or installation on a hard drive. It brings together material that is available as separate downloads from the GENESIS web site and through the GENESIS Users Group. It includes several simulator-independent tutorials on biologically realistic neural modeling, as well as both tutorial and research simulations that have been implemented with GENESIS.
This collection is based on an extended version of the GENESIS Neural Modeling Tutorials package that contains other tutorials, the Book of GENESIS, GENESIS 2.3 source and binary distributions, and additional GENESIS network simulation scripts taken from the archives of BABEL, the GENESIS Users Group. These include the Nenadic, Ghosh and Ulinsky large scale model of turtle visual cortex, and the Menne, et al. hippocampal network model. A "Getting Started With Realistic Neural Modeling" guide has been added to this extended Tutorials package, with suggested exercises for self-paced study.
Browse the contents of the Ultimate GENESIS Modeling Tutorial Distribution, and the included cell and network simulation directories.
Download the Ultimate CDROM package as:
* Ultimate_CDROM.iso.zip - A zip-compressed CDROM image, ready for burning to CDROM after unzipping.
* Ultimate_CDROM.zip - A zip-compressed archive of the CDROM contensts, ready to unzip to a hard drive.
* Ultimate_CDROM.tar.gz - A gzipped tar archive of the CDROM contents, ready to extract to a hard drive.
These all have the same contents, and are each about 40 MB in size. This material is all freely distributable under the terms of various GNU licenses, so you are encouraged to copy it and pass it around to anyone who might want to incorporate it into a neuroscience or modeling course, or to give to a student as a start on an independent modeling project.