Instructions, tutorials, FAQs and settings files for NEURON

Last Updated 2018-08-19 by Adam Lu

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Where do I start?

• Download NEURON from their website. If you are working on one of our servers, you can skip this step.
• In a terminal, type nrngui to start the NEURON graphical user interface.
• Try this web-based tutorial by Andrew Gillies and David Sterratt.
• Look in Adam’s Functions for tools to run NEURON with MATLAB, especially run_neuron.m and load_neuron_outputs.m.

Useful links

• See instructions here for how to access these links on the server.
• Tutorials
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Troubleshooting
• NEURON home
• NEURON hoc documentation
• NEURON python documentation
• ModelDB
• Publications that have used NEURON

Other directories

• Installation

How can I update these files on the server?

• Method 1: Update them directly from the locations:

  • /media/adamX/Settings_Neuron or ~/Settings_Neuron (fishfish)
  • /home/adam/Settings_Neuron (chalkboard)

• Method 2: Edit them here on GitHub then apply the following commands on the server

cd ~/Settings_Neuron
git_update