UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE            
       COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM       
                                                  
                     presents   
					                   
	        "Open Source Brain: enabling collaborative 
		 model development in computational neuroscience"                
                      				                        
                Dr. Padraig Gleeson             
                                                  
         (Department of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology,
              University College London)           
                                                  
                   5 May 2020                  
                                                  
                  13:00 - 14:00                   
                                                  
                   Over Zoom          

Abstract:

An in-depth understanding of how information is processed in neuronal circuits will require integration and consolidation of diverse experimental data on these circuits along with computational modelling of their dynamical properties at multiple scales. Many datasets of neuronal anatomy and physiology at the micro-, meso- and macro-scale have been released in recent years. In parallel, computational models have been created which range from spiking network models with point neurons or multicompartmental cells to whole brain models. 
In this talk I will present my work on making computational models in neuroscience more accessible and interoperable, through the development of the model description language NeuroML (http://www.neuroml.org), and with the development of an open platform for sharing and collaboratively developing such models, Open Source Brain (http://www.opensourcebrain.org). I will also discuss work to make the underlying experimental datasets, used to constrain the models, more open and accessible, thus increasing the reliability and robustness of the models.