Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: Brian2
Version: 2.5.4
Summary: A clock-driven simulator for spiking neural networks
Author: Marcel Stimberg, Dan Goodman, Romain Brette
Project-URL: Homepage, https://briansimulator.org
Project-URL: Documentation, https://brian2.readthedocs.io/
Project-URL: Source, https://github.com/brian-team/brian2
Project-URL: Tracker, https://github.com/brian-team/brian2/issues
Keywords: computational neuroscience,simulation,neural networks,spiking neurons,biological neural networks,research
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: CEA CNRS Inria Logiciel Libre License, version 2.1 (CeCILL-2.1)
Classifier: Natural Language :: English
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Bio-Informatics
Requires-Python: >=3.9
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License-File: LICENSE
License-File: AUTHORS
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Requires-Dist: numpy >=1.21
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Requires-Dist: pyparsing
Requires-Dist: setuptools >=61
Requires-Dist: sympy >=1.2
Requires-Dist: py-cpuinfo ; platform_system == "Windows"
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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 <https://opensource.org/licenses/CECILL-2.1>`_.

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 <https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.47314>`_.




Quickstart
----------
Try out Brian on the `mybinder <http://mybinder.org/v2/gh/brian-team/brian2-binder/master?filepath=index.ipynb>`_ service.

Dependencies
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The following packages need to be installed to use Brian 2 (cf. `setup.py <setup.py>`_):

* Python >= 3.7
* NumPy >=1.17
* SymPy >= 1.2
* Cython >= 0.29
* PyParsing
* Jinja2 >= 2.7
* setuptools >= 24.2
* 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 (>=1.8)

To run the test suite:

* pytest
* pytest-xdist (optional)

