An automated and reproducible workflow for running and analyzing neural simulations using Lancet and IPython Notebook

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Stevens, Jean Luc R ^a   Elver, Marco ^a   Bednar, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Batch computation; Big data; IPython; Pandas; Provenance; Reproducibility; Simulation; Workflow

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892575451     PISSN: 16625196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2013.00044     Document Type: Article

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