GENESIS (software)

GENESIS (The "GEneral NEural SImulation System") is a simulation environment for constructing realistic models of neurobiological systems at many levels of scale including subcellular processes, individual neurons, networks of neurons, and neuronal systems.

GENESIS was developed in the Caltech laboratory of Dr. James M. Bower, and first released to the public in 1988 in association with the first Methods in Computational Neuroscience Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. Full source code for the software was released in the same year under an open software model for development. It's now supported by the Computational Biology Initiative at the University of Texas at San Antonio and is available for free along with tutorial guides on its use.

P-GENESIS, a parallel version of GENESIS, was first run in 1990 on the Intel Delta, which was the prototype for the Intel Paragon family of massively parallel supercomputers.

Publications

*"The Book of GENESIS: Exploring Realistic Neural Models with the GEneral NEural SImulation System", Springer, (1998), ISBN 978-0387949383

External links

* [http://www.genesis-sim.org/GENESIS/ GENESIS Distribution and Support Site]