Brain Modeling Toolkit (BMTK)

Description

BMTK, SONATA, and Visual Neuronal Dynamics (VND) are mutually integrated software tools particularly suited to support large-scale bio-realistic brain modeling, but are applicable to a variety of neuronal modeling applications. BMTK is a suite for building and simulating network models at multiple levels of resolution, from biophysically-detailed, to point-neuron, to population-statistics approaches.

Features

• Modular design for working across different scales of resolution
• Support for different simulation engines with the same code interface
• Integration with SONATA data format for:
  • Model architecture
  • Parameters
  • Simulation configuration
  • Input and output storage
• Visualization through VND’s rendering capabilities

NWB Integration

BMTK provides support for NWB through its spike stimulus functionality. For more information, see the NWB Spike Stimulus documentation.

Resources

• Documentation
• Tutorials
• Source Code
• Publication

Reference

Dai et al. Brain Modeling Toolkit: An open-source software suite for multiscale modeling of brain circuits. PLoS Comput Biol 16(11): e1008386. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008386