To reference SpineCreator or the code generation tool-chain, please use:

Cope, A.J., Richmond, P., James, S.S. et al. “SpineCreator: a Graphical User Interface for the Creation of Layered Neural Models” Neuroinformatics (2016). doi:10.1007/s12021-016-9311-z

To reference the SpineML language please use this publication:

Richmond P, Cope A, Gurney K, Allerton DJ. “From Model Specification to Simulation of Biologically Constrained Networks of Spiking Neurons” Neuroinformatics. 2013 Nov 20

The following poster is available describing an overview of the toolchain.

Cope AJ, Richmond P. “A toolchain for creation of spiking neural networks utilising NineML - a tool independent XML model description format” Poster presentation at eFutures workshop `Building Bridges to Building Brains` Edinburgh 2012 available here

The following publications use SpineML and SpineCreator, if you would like to add a paper to this list please contact us:

• "A Model for an Angular Velocity-Tuned Motion Detector Accounting for Deviations in the Corridor-Centering Response of the Bee"

  A Cope, C Sabo, K Gurney, E Vasilaki, J Marshall

  PLOS Computational Biology, 2016

  Keywords: bee, spineml, spinecreator, model

  A model of motion detection in the bee created using SpineCreator

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• "Striatal Neuropeptides Enhance Selection and Rejection of Sequential Actions"

  D Buxton, E Bracci, P Overton, K Gurney

  Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2017

  Keywords: action selection, action sequence, basal ganglia, chunking, enkephalin, neuropeptides, striatum, substance P

  Describes a hybrid spiking/rate coded model of the striatal microcircuit

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• "Building a Spiking Neural Network Model of the Basal Ganglia on SpiNNaker"

  B Sen-Bhattacharya, S James, O Rhodes, I Sugiarto, A Rowley, A Stokes, K Gurney, S Furber

  IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 2018

  Keywords: spinecreator, spiking neurons, basal ganglia, spinnaker, comparative study

  Compares implementations of the same basal ganglia model in SpiNNaker and SpineCreator.

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• "Integrating Brain and Biomechanical Models-A New Paradigm for Understanding Neuro-muscular Control"

  S James, C Papapavlou, A Blenkinsop, A Cope, S Anderson, K Moustakas, K Gurney

  Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2018

  Keywords: Oculomotor Muscles, Saccades, Biomechanics, Basal Ganglia, integrated brain and biomechanics, Neuromuscular Junction

  This paper presents a biophysically accurate oculomotor brain model which moves a virtual, biomechanical eye.

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