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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Mar 19.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroinformatics. 2007;5(2):127–138. doi: 10.1007/s12021-007-0004-5

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Examples of declarative and imperative model descriptions. The fragment of a NeuroML file above describes two cables, each with a single segment. This declarative specification does not detail the method of creating these, just contains information on the parameters describing them, in a structured format. The NEURON and GENESIS script files, on the other hand, outline the steps needed to create the model, in the native language of the simulator