Software:Documentation

From NEST

There are a number of starting points to get an overview of NEST:

1. Read the NEST article on Scholarpedia.org
2. Look at the SfN 2008 NEST Poster (pdf)

NEST 2.0 Tutorials

• Tutorial on Large-Scale Neuronal Network Models: Principles and Practice held as BCCN Tutorial at CNS July 2009.
  • Tutorial Slides, updated 12 Aug 2009
  • Example script with comments and results implementing a toy variant of the Hill-Tononi model, updated 12 Aug 2009
  • Archive with example scripts from tutorial, updated 12 Aug 2009

NEST 2.0 User's Manual

• Installing NEST
• Getting started
• Frequently Asked Questions

• PyNEST: Using NEST from Python
• Using NEST with the SLI interpreter

• Connection Management
• Topological Connections
• Topology Module User Manual (PDF)

• Parallel Computing

• Example networks

NEST 2.0 Programmer's Manual

• Source Code Layout
• Coding Guidelines
• Writing an Extension Module
• Developing Models
• Developing Synapse Types
• Synapses in NEST: An overview