brian2

Brian is a free, open source simulator for spiking neural networks.

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Keywords

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Repository

Brian is a free, open source simulator for spiking neural networks.

Basic Info

Host: GitHub
Owner: brian-team
License: other
Language: Python
Default Branch: master
Homepage: http://briansimulator.org
Size: 36 MB

Statistics

Stars: 1,048
Watchers: 44
Forks: 243
Open Issues: 191
Releases: 0

Topics

biological-simulations brian brian2 code-generation computational-neuroscience differential-equations neuroscience python science simulation-framework spiking-neural-networks

Created about 13 years ago · Last pushed 4 months ago

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Brian2

A clock-driven simulator for spiking neural networks

Brian is a free, open source simulator for spiking neural networks. It is written in the Python programming language and is available on almost all platforms. We believe that a simulator should not only save the time of processors, but also the time of scientists. Brian is therefore designed to be easy to learn and use, highly flexible and easily extensible.

Please report issues at the github issue tracker (https://github.com/brian-team/brian2/issues) or in the Brian forum (https://brian.discourse.group).

Documentation for Brian2 can be found at http://brian2.readthedocs.org

Brian2 is released under the terms of the CeCILL 2.1 license.

If you use Brian for your published research, we kindly ask you to cite our article:

Stimberg, M, Brette, R, Goodman, DFM. “Brian 2, an Intuitive and Efficient Neural Simulator.” eLife 8 (2019): e47314. doi: 10.7554/eLife.47314.

Quickstart

Try out Brian on the mybinder service:

Dependencies

The following packages need to be installed to use Brian 2 (cf. pyproject.toml):

Python >= 3.10
NumPy >=1.23
SymPy >= 1.2
Cython >= 0.29.21
PyParsing
Jinja2 >= 2.7
setuptools >= 61
py-cpuinfo (only required on Windows)

For full functionality, you might also want to install:

GSL >=1.16
SciPy >=0.13.3
Matplotlib >= 2.0

To build the documentation:

Sphinx (>=7)

To run the test suite:

pytest
pytest-xdist (optional)

Testing status for master branch

Owner

Name: Brian simulator
Login: brian-team
Kind: organization
Location: Paris, France

Website: https://briansimulator.org
Repositories: 25
Profile: https://github.com/brian-team

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title: Brian simulator

abstract: A clock-driven simulator for spiking neural networks

authors:
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    given-names: Marcel
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2648-4790
  - family-names: Goodman
    given-names: Dan F. M.
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  - family-names: Evans
    given-names: Benjmain
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1734-6070
  - family-names: Brette
    given-names: Romain
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0110-1623
  - name: Brian contributors

version: 2.9.0

date-released: '2025-05-14'

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    type: doi
    value: 10.5281/zenodo.654861
  - description: This is the archived snapshot of version 2.9.0 of Brian 2
    type: doi
    value: 10.5281/zenodo.15423251
  - description: Software Heritage identifier for version 2.9.0 of Brian 2
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    value: swh:1:rel:bfa0c5c9b838a4d42e98b2e0d7cb7a648df6f333

license: CECILL-2.1

repository-code: https://github.com/brian-team/brian2

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    - family-names: Stimberg
      given-names: Marcel
      orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2648-4790
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    - family-names: Brette
      given-names: Romain
      orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0110-1623
  title: Brian 2, an intuitive and efficient neural simulator
  journal: eLife
  month: 8
  year: 2019
  volume: 8
  doi: 10.7554/eLife.47314
  type: article

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pypi.org: brian2

A clock-driven simulator for spiking neural networks

Homepage: https://briansimulator.org
Documentation: https://brian2.readthedocs.io/
License: CEA CNRS Inria Logiciel Libre License, version 2.1 (CeCILL-2.1)
Latest release: 2.9.0
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marcelstimberg thesamovar

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conda-forge.org: brian2

Brian2 is a simulator for spiking neural networks available on almost all platforms. The motivation for this project is that a simulator should not only save the time of processors, but also the time of scientists. It is the successor of Brian1 and shares its approach of being highly flexible and easily extensible. It is based on a code generation framework that allows to execute simulations using other programming languages and/or on different devices.

Homepage: http://www.briansimulator.org/
License: CECILL-2.1
Latest release: 2.5.1
published over 3 years ago

Versions: 15
Dependent Packages: 1
Dependent Repositories: 1

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actions/checkout v2 composite
actions/setup-python v2 composite
pypa/cibuildwheel v2.2.2 composite

.github/workflows/test_latest.yml actions

actions/checkout v2 composite
conda-incubator/setup-miniconda v2 composite
mstimberg/github-calc-nep29 v0.5 composite

.github/workflows/testsuite.yml actions

actions/checkout v2 composite
actions/checkout v3 composite
actions/setup-python v4 composite
conda-incubator/setup-miniconda v2 composite
mstimberg/github-calc-nep29 v0.5 composite

.devcontainer/Dockerfile docker

mcr.microsoft.com/vscode/devcontainers/python 0-${VARIANT} build

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