From p.gleeson at ucl.ac.uk  Tue Jan 19 14:24:19 2010
From: p.gleeson at ucl.ac.uk (Padraig Gleeson)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:24:19 +0000
Subject: [neuroConstruct] New release of neuroConstruct (v1.3.6)
Message-ID: <4B55C093.3010109@ucl.ac.uk>

Hi,

A new release of neuroConstruct (v1.3.6) has been released on the 
website (http://www.neuroConstruct.org).

This release features a number of new features and minor bugfixes. Full 
details of the changes are available here: 
http://www.neuroconstruct.org/nCinfo/RELEASE_NOTES, and a summary follows.

* Support for the MOOSE simulator (being developed as part of the 
GENESIS 3 initiative) is increased. An option for generating for this 
platform is present at the GENESIS tab. Simulations have been found to 
run 2-5 times faster on MOOSE compared to GENESIS 2. While MOOSE support 
has been tested for a number of models, it it still at the beta testing 
stage. Users are encouraged to test it out (using the latest version of 
MOOSE: http://moose.sourceforge.net/) and report any problems.

* Instead of visualising simulations in 3D to plot/analyse the cell 
activity, multiple simulation traces can be plotted quickly using a new 
tree based GUI (press "Quick Plot..." button on Visualisation tab or the 
new GUI can be run in standalone mode using: ./nC.sh -sims 
projectpath/projectname.ncx)

* Updated to Jython 2.5.0, so most standard Python 2.5 modules should be 
available when creating scripts to be run using './nC.sh -python'. 
Improved Python scripting documentation is available online at 
http://www.neuroconstruct.org/docs/python.html

* Added simple script to allow neuroConstruct simulations to be 
loaded/plotted/analysed using NeuroTools 
(http://neuralensemble.org/trac/NeuroTools). Available at
pythonNeuroML/NeuroTools/LoadToNeuroTools.py

* Added option in nC.sh & nC.bat to build source without ant (using 
'./nC.sh -make', etc.)

Regards,
Padraig

 

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