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URL: http://www.compneuro.org/CDROM/catacomb/index.html

Proper Citation: Components And Tools for Accessible COmputer Modeling in (neuro)Biology (RRID:SCR_008321)

Description: Catacomb consists of a set of frameworks for various types of models in neuroscience, user interfaces to facilitate building models within these frameworks, and numerical algorithms to compute their behavior. The available frameworks include reaction kinetics, reaction diffusion systems, kinetic scheme models of ion channels, small neuron models and integrate and fire networks. It is a library of models (data structures and algorithms) covering a range of problems in neuroscience together with a versatile graphical user interface for constructing and running specific instances of the models. Some features of Catacomb include: * Class models. There is a growing set of classes containing data structures and calculation methods for various problem domains in neuroscience - reaction schemes, stochastic channel models, integrate-and-fire networks, cell geometry et al. * Dynamic interface builder. Using Java''s reflection capabilities, individual user interfaces are constructed for each class model allowing new instances to be created and displaying the results of any calculation methods they may contain. * Parameter watching. Using Java threads, the calculations are rerun and results displayed whenever parameters upon which they depend are changed. * Session recording. Operations can be recorded and played back for illustrating how to use Catacomb or for preconfigured demonstrations of model behavior. * Compatible with JPython. Catacomb does not include its own interpreter except in the minimal sense required to parse its own saved files. But its objects and methods are accessible to JPython which can be used for command line access or scripting. * Applet building. The contents of windows in the display can be extracted and packaged together in a single panel for loading as an applet. The model is saved as a java source file which, once compiled, can be packaged with the original Catacomb archive for loading from a Web page. See the AppletConfigEditor.

Synonyms: Catacomb

Resource Type: data or information resource, database

Keywords: framework, algorithm, behavior, channel, diffusion, kinetic, model, neuron, neuroscience, numerical, reaction, system

Resource Name: Components And Tools for Accessible COmputer Modeling in (neuro)Biology

Resource ID: SCR_008321

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