GENESIS Reference ManualMay 5, 2001: Neural Simulation Routines

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## 12. Neural Simulation Routines

GENESIS offers many routines for working with components of neural simulation models. The following tables summarize these routines:

## 12.1 Buffer Routines

Routine | Description
clearbuffer | Removes events from the buffer of a buffer class element.
getinput | Gets synaptic input to place in a buffer.
putevent | Places events into the buffer of a buffer class element.

## 12.2 Compartment Routines

Routine | Description
pastechannel | Copies a prototype channel to a compartment.
randcomp | Randomly selects a compartment from tree root.
randcoord | Shuffles positions of compartments in a neuron.
relposition | Positions element and its child compartments based on
| messages rather than parent-child relationships.

## 12.3 Miscellaneous Neural Routines

Routine | Description
balanceEm | Adjusts Em field to give no net membrane current at given
| voltage.
calcCm | Calculates the approximate total membrane capacitance (Cm)
| of a neuron.
calcRm | Calculates input membrane resistance (Rm) of neuron.
cellsheet | Copies prototype cells into a 3-d sheet specified by
| coordinates in a file.
createmap | Makes multiple copies of an element to form a2-D array.
egg | Generates coordinates for points on the surface of an ovoid.
plane | Generates 3-d coordinates for a plane with specified
| dimensions and characteristics.
rallcalcRm | Calculates input membrane resistance (Rm) of neuron,
| using Rall's calculations.
readcell | Constructs a cell from specifications in a cell
| parameter file.
setrandfield | Sets the specified field for the element randomly
| according to specified distribution.
setspatialfield | Sets the specified field for the element according to the
| Gaussian of the distance between the specified coordinate
| and element.
writecell | Writes the specification of a cell to a cell
| parameter file.

Also see the routines for use with tabchannel and tabgate elements in Tables and Arrays.

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