Contents

• NEST Desktop

About NEST Desktop

• Abstract
• History
• Releases

User Documentation

• How to use NEST Desktop
• Setup Guide
  • Via Docker Compose
  • Via Singularity
  • Via Python Package
• Usage Guide
  • Construct neuronal networks
  • Simulate neuronal networks
  • Explore network activity
  • Manage projects
  • Explore neuron models and devices
• Troubleshootings
  • Error messages
  • Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
• Use NEST Desktop on EBRAINS

Lecturer Documentation

• How to lecture with NEST Desktop
• Course design
• Didactic concept
• First steps toward simulating brains
• How to prepare a course protocol
• Bachelor students
  • Direct current injection into single neurons
  • Noise current injection into single neurons
  • Excitatory and inhibitory synaptic input into single neurons
  • Poisson input into single neurons
• Master students
  • The Hodgkin-Huxley theory of the action potential
    • Current clamp simulation of the free-running membrane
    • Sodium and potassium currents under current clamp conditions
    • Exploring the “spike threshold” and the “depolarization block”
  • Point neuron models with conductance-based synapses
    • Point neurons with conductance-based synapses
  • Network dynamics
    • Recurrent networks of excitatory neurons
    • Recurrent networks of inhibitory neurons
    • Recurrent networks of excitatory and inhibitory neurons
• Doctoral students
  • Network models of decision making
    • Decision making in EEI Networks
    • Decision making in EII networks
    • Decision making

Deployer Documentation

• How to deploy NEST Desktop
• Deploy with Docker Compose
• Deploy on OpenShift
• Deploy on OpenStack

Developer Documentation

• How to develop NEST Desktop
• Prepare the environment
• Work on the source code
• Build and publish package
• Command API
• User documentation
• The semantic versioning
• Concept of the interface
• References