Abstract
AbstractIntegration of information across heterogeneous sources creates added scientific value. It is, however, a challenge to progress, often a barrier, to interoperate data, tools and models across spatial and temporal scales. Here we present a design template for coupling simulators operating at different scales and enabling co-simulation. We illustrate its functioning along a neuroscience example, in which individual regions of interest are simulated on the cellular level to address mechanistic questions, while the remaining network is efficiently simulated on the population level. A workflow is illustrated for the use case of The Virtual Brain and NEST, in which the cellular-level hippocampus of the mouse is embedded into a full brain network involving micro and macro electrode recordings. This new tool allows integrating knowledge across scales in the same simulation framework and validate them against multiscale experiments, thereby largely widening the explanatory power of computational models.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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