LEMS: A language for expressing complex biological models in concise and hierarchical form and its use in underpinning NeuroML 2

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 8, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Cannon, Robert C ^a   Gleeson, Padraig ^b   Crook, Sharon ^c   Ganapathy, Gautham ^a   Marin, Boris ^b,d   Piasini, Eugenio ^b   Silver, R Angus ^b  

^a Textensor Limited   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MINISTRY OF EDUCATION OF BRAZIL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Model description language; Model sharing; Simulation; Spiking neural networks; Standardization

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; ION CHANNEL; POTASSIUM ION;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONCEPT MAPPING; ION CONDUCTANCE; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; SCIENTIST; SIMULATION; SYNAPSE;

EID: 84907584117     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2014.00079     Document Type: Article

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