Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Systematic generation of biophysically detailed models for diverse cortical neuron types

  • Nathan W. Gouwens,
  • Jim Berg,
  • David Feng,
  • Staci A. Sorensen,
  • Hongkui Zeng,
  • Michael J. Hawrylycz,
  • Christof Koch,
  • Anton Arkhipov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02718-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Neocortical circuits exhibit diverse cell types that can be difficult to build into computational models. Here the authors employ a genetic algorithm-based parameter optimization to generate multi-compartment Hodgkin-Huxley models for diverse cell types in the Allen Cell Types Database.