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Popularity

Small

GitHub Stars: 404
Forks: 118
Contributors: 70

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Security

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Release Date: Jul 25, 2024
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License

BSD-2-Clause

Security Policy

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Maintenance

Healthy

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 298
Open PR: 83
Last Release: 4 months ago
Last Commit: 17 hours ago

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We found that NEURON demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 3 months.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

Community

Active

Readme: Yes
Contributing.md: Yes
Code of Conduct: No
Contributors: 70
Funding: No

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Python Versions Compatibility: Unspecified

Age: 5 years
Latest Release: 4 months ago
Dependencies: 3 Direct / 4 Total
Versions: 21
Maintainers: 7
Wheels: Linux, macOS

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To help you get started, we've collected the most common ways that NEURON is being used within popular public projects.

JustasB / BlenderNEURON / tests / test_client.py View on Github

def test():
            from blenderneuron.quick import bn

            with Blender(keep=False):

                from neuron import h
                h.load_file(test_hoc_file)
                tc = h.TestCell()

                ic = h.IClamp(0.5, sec=tc.soma)
                ic.delay = 1
                ic.dur = 3
                ic.amp = 0.5

                bn.prepare_for_collection()
                h.run()
                bn.to_blender()

                bn.run_command("bpy.data.scenes['Scene'].frame_current = 1;")
                self.assertTrue(bn.run_command("return_value = bpy.data.materials['TestCell[0].dendrites[9][0]'].emit") == 0.0)

                bn.run_command("bpy.data.scenes['Scene'].frame_current = 7;")
                self.assertTrue(bn.run_command("return_value = bpy.data.materials['TestCell[0].dendrites[9][0]'].emit") == 2.0)

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NEURON

NEURON is a simulator for models of neurons and networks of neuron. See http://neuron.yale.edu for installers, source code, documentation, tutorials, announcements of courses and conferences, and a discussion forum.

Installing NEURON

NEURON provides binary installers for Linux, Mac and Windows platforms. You can find the latest installers for Mac and Windows here. For Linux and Mac you can install the official Python 3 wheel with:

pip3 install neuron

If you want to build the latest version from source, we support CMake as build system. Autotools build system has been removed after 8.0 release. See detailed installation instructions: docs/install/install_instructions.md.

It is possible to install the Linux Python wheels on Windows via the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) - check the installation instructions above.

Documentation

See documentation section of the NEURON website
See https://nrn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ for latest, nightly snapshot
See docs/README.md for information on documentation (local build, Read the Docs setup)

Changelog

Refer to docs/changelog.md

Contributing to NEURON development

Refer to NEURON contribution guidelines

Funding

NEURON development is supported by NIH grant R01NS11613 (PI M.L. Hines at Yale University).

Collaboration is provided by the Blue Brain Project, a research center of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) with funding from the Swiss government's ETH Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology. Additional funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Program (FP7/20072013) under grant agreement no. 604102 (HBP) and the European Union's Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation under Specific Grant Agreement no. 720270 (Human Brain Project SGA1), no. 785907 (Human Brain Project SGA2) and no. 945539 (Human Brain Project SGA3).

NEURON dependencies

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What is NEURON?

Empirically-based simulator for modeling neurons and networks of neurons. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for NEURON, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is NEURON popular?

The python package NEURON receives a total of 7,776 weekly downloads. As such, NEURON popularity was classified as small. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is NEURON well maintained?

We found that NEURON demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity. It has a community of 70 open source contributors collaborating on the project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is NEURON safe to use?

While scanning the latest version of NEURON, we found that a security review is needed. A total of 0 vulnerabilities or license issues were detected. See the full security scan results.

Last updated on 7 November-2024, at 17:35 (UTC).

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