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BioNB330 - Introduction to Computational Neuroscience Lab

The lab for this class consists of a series of computer excercises designed specifically to accompany the material presented in class and to deepen the students' understanding of these materials.

The labs are coordinated with the lectures. Students can do these at their own pace. The TA will be available in the computer teaching lab on Tuesday afternoons (2:00-5:00pm, Comstock Hall B160).

All lab assignemenmts need to be handed in by December 2nd at 6pm. You can hand in individual assigments earlier to get feedback and a chance to make changes. The last versions of all your assignements in a single document (word or pdf) need to be emailed to the TA (cdr25@cornell.edu) by December 2nd at noon.

The lab assigbements use custom made software written in the freely available simulator NEURON. You can either download the software to your computer or use the computer lab to do the assigmenets. Software for PCs is included with the package made available here, for other operating systems check http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/.

To get started, create a folder on your computer and download the following files. Then follow the instructions in lab_manual.doc.