nest-desktop

NEST Desktop is a web-based GUI for NEST Simulator and other simulators of spiking networks.

https://github.com/nest-desktop/nest-desktop

Science Score: 49.0%

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Keywords

biological-neural-networks graphical-user-interface nest simulation

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Repository

NEST Desktop is a web-based GUI for NEST Simulator and other simulators of spiking networks.

Basic Info

Host: GitHub
Owner: nest-desktop
License: mit
Language: TypeScript
Default Branch: dev
Homepage: https://nest-desktop.readthedocs.io
Size: 61.1 MB

Statistics

Stars: 19
Watchers: 4
Forks: 10
Open Issues: 8
Releases: 16

Topics

biological-neural-networks graphical-user-interface nest simulation

Created over 5 years ago · Last pushed 4 months ago

Metadata Files

Readme License Security Codemeta

NEST Desktop

A web-based application for spiking neuronal simulation.

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Synopsis

Advanced users often choose NEST Simulator: a prominent tool for spiking neuronal networks to measure network dynamics.However, programming knowledge is required to write code for this tool. NEST Desktop bypasses this requirement, but still teaches users how to construct and explore neuronal networks. A textual script is generated from the constructed networks and sent to NEST Simulator; the network activity is then visualized in a graph or table. It is a useful teaching tool, since the network graphs and network activity visualizations can be exported to files that users can implement for their course protocol.

NEST Desktop is available on EBRAINS (free EBRAINS account required).

Quick start

To get started with NEST Desktop and NEST Simulator, use Docker compose with the configuration file:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nest-desktop/nest-desktop/main/docker/docker-compose.yml docker-compose up --build

For more information, please see the User Documentation Page.

Cite NEST Desktop

In order to cite NEST Desktop in general, please use the DOI 10.5281/zenodo.5037050 for all versions (always redirecting to the latest version). If you like to refer to a single version, you can find these also on Zenodo, e.g. 10.5281/zenodo.5037051 for Version 3.0. You can use the reference to the paper for NEST Desktop (DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0274-21.2021) mentioned above as well, if that is more appropriate in the context of your reference.

You will also find the exports for the citation managers on Zenodo and eNeuro.

Funding

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation under Specific Grant Agreement No. 785907 (Human Brain Project SGA2) and No. 945539 (Human Brain Project SGA3), the European Union’s Horizon Europe Programme under the Specific Grant Agreement No. 101147319 (EBRAINS 2.0), the Helmholtz Association Initiative and Networking Fund under project number SO-092 (Advanced Computing Architectures, ACA) and the "Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung" (BMBF) for the grant DATIPilot. This work was supported by the DFG Excellence Cluster BrainLinks-BrainTools (grant EXC 1086).

License

NEST Desktop is published under the MIT license.

Owner

Name: NEST Desktop
Login: nest-desktop
Kind: organization
Location: Germany

Website: https://nest-desktop.github.io
Repositories: 16
Profile: https://github.com/nest-desktop

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GitHub Events

Total

Create event: 11
Release event: 7
Issues event: 11
Watch event: 5
Delete event: 11
Issue comment event: 12
Push event: 234
Pull request event: 32
Fork event: 1

Last Year

Create event: 11
Release event: 7
Issues event: 11
Watch event: 5
Delete event: 11
Issue comment event: 12
Push event: 234
Pull request event: 32
Fork event: 1

Committers

Last synced: 7 months ago

All Time

Total Commits: 2,552
Total Committers: 3
Avg Commits per committer: 850.667
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.072

Past Year

Commits: 571
Committers: 1
Avg Commits per committer: 571.0
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.0

Top Committers

Name	Email	Commits
Sebastian Spreizer	s**r@w**e	2,367
jens-br	5****r	184
Yannik Stradmann	y**n@k**e	1

Committer Domains (Top 20 + Academic)

kip.uni-heidelberg.de: 1

Issues and Pull Requests

Last synced: 4 months ago

All Time

Total issues: 38
Total pull requests: 143
Average time to close issues: over 1 year
Average time to close pull requests: 14 days
Total issue authors: 8
Total pull request authors: 4
Average comments per issue: 1.18
Average comments per pull request: 0.1
Merged pull requests: 132
Bot issues: 0
Bot pull requests: 3

Past Year

Issues: 2
Pull requests: 38
Average time to close issues: 42 minutes
Average time to close pull requests: about 3 hours
Issue authors: 2
Pull request authors: 1
Average comments per issue: 0.5
Average comments per pull request: 0.0
Merged pull requests: 34
Bot issues: 0
Bot pull requests: 0

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Top Authors

Issue Authors

jens-br (23)
babsey (7)
morales-gregorio (3)
jhgoebbert (1)
apdavison (1)
naveau (1)
steffengraber (1)
abigailm (1)

Pull Request Authors

babsey (133)
jens-br (6)
dependabot[bot] (3)
ystradmann (1)

Top Labels

Issue Labels

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Pull Request Labels

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Packages

Total packages: 2
Total downloads:
- pypi 472 last-month

Total dependent packages: 0
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Total dependent repositories: 1
(may contain duplicates)
Total versions: 80
Total maintainers: 1

pypi.org: nest-desktop

A web-based GUI application for spiking neuronal networks

Documentation: https://nest-desktop.readthedocs.io/
License: mit
Latest release: 4.1.0
published 8 months ago

Versions: 79
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 1
Downloads: 472 Last month

Rankings

Dependent packages count: 10.0%

Forks count: 12.0%

Downloads: 14.3%

Average: 14.7%

Stargazers count: 15.6%

Dependent repos count: 21.8%

Maintainers (1)

babsey

Last synced: 4 months ago

conda-forge.org: nest-desktop

NEST Desktop is a web-based application which provides a graphical user interface for NEST Simulator. With this easy-to-use tool, users can interactively construct neuronal networks and explore network dynamics. Advanced users often choose NEST Simulator: a prominent tool for spiking neuronal networks to measure network dynamics. However, programming knowledge is required to write code for this tool. NEST Desktop bypasses this requirement, but still teaches users how to construct and explore neuronal networks. A textual script is generated from the constructed networks and sent to NEST Simulator; the network activity is then visualized in a graph or table. It is a useful teaching tool, since the network graphs and network activity visualizations can be exported to files that users can implement for their course protocol.

Homepage: https://nest-desktop.github.io
License: MIT
Latest release: 3.1.4
published over 3 years ago

Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0

Rankings

Dependent repos count: 34.0%

Forks count: 44.7%

Average: 45.0%

Stargazers count: 50.2%

Dependent packages count: 51.2%

Last synced: 4 months ago

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nest-desktop

Science Score: 49.0%

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NEST Desktop

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