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.

The following material, updated to reflect changes in NEST 1.9.r8375, is available for download:

• 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 to use FindConnections (NEST 1.9.r8410 or later) 11 May 2010

The scripts will not work with NEST earlier than 1.9.r8410, because FindConnections has replaced GetConnections.

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)

• Random numbers in NEST

• Parallel Computing
• Using NEST with MUSIC

• 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