Topic: graphical user interface

A great deal of understanding can be gleaned from direct observation of organismal growth, development, and behavior. However, direct observation can be time consuming and influence the organism through unintentional stimuli. Additionally, video capturing equipment can often be prohibitively expensive, difficult to modify to one’s specific needs, and may come with unnecessary features. Here, we describe the PiSpy, a low-cost, automated video acquisition platform that uses a Raspberry Pi computer and camera to record video or images at specified time intervals or when externally triggered. All

NEST [1] is a well-established open source simulator providing researchers in computational neuroscience with the ability to perform high-performance simulations of spiking neuronal networks. However, as the simulation kernel is written in C++ for performance reasons, this makes it challenging for researchers without a programming background to customize and extend the built-in neuron and synapse models. In order to satisfy both the need for high-performance simulation codes and a good user experience in terms of easy-to-use modeling of neurons and synapses, NESTML [2] was created as a domain-