Below you will find the README for the original Brian2 project (under the Brian2 header).
To install our version of Brian2, we recommend using Anaconda to isolate your environment.
With Anaconda installed, run
conda env create -f conda_environment.yml source activate brian-sim python setup.py install
Without Anaconda, simply run
python setup.py install
You can find example code in examples/ibm_lib.
A clock-driven simulator for spiking neural networks
Brian is a free, open source simulator for spiking neural networks. It is written in the Python programming language and is available on almost all platforms. We believe that a simulator should not only save the time of processors, but also the time of scientists. Brian is therefore designed to be easy to learn and use, highly flexible and easily extensible.
Please report issues at the github issue tracker (https://github.com/brian-team/brian2/issues) or at the brian support mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/briansupport/)
Documentation for Brian2 can be found at http://brian2.readthedocs.org
Brian2 is released under the terms of the CeCILL 2.1 license.
If you use Brian for your published research, we suggest that you cite one of our introductory articles:
- Goodman DFM and Brette R (2009). The Brian simulator. Front Neurosci doi: 10.3389/neuro.01.026.2009
- Stimberg M, Goodman DFM, Benichoux V, Brette R (2014). Equation-oriented specification of neural models for simulations. Frontiers Neuroinf, doi: 10.3389/fninf.2014.00006.
