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NeuroElectro Project

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Neuroelectro; neuroelectro.org

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The NeuroElectro Project is an effort to curate data about the electrophysiological properties of neurons. It contains experimental data extracted from the literature about dozens of basic properties (such as resting membrane potential, action potential width, etc.) for hundreds of distinct types of neurons. It can be browsed online at http://neuroelectro.org.

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Computational neuroscientists have argued that the electrophysiological properties of neurons determine their computational roles. Furthermore, models containing or concerning neurons can be constrained or validated in part using empirical data on single-cell electrophysiology. However, compared with imaging or genetic data, these data are infrequently published in a format that permits them to be easily discovered in the literature. The NeuroElectro Project (http://neuroelectro.org, Tripathy et al. 2014) solves this problem by providing a database on the...

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  1. Centre for High-Throughput Biology and Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Pittsburgh, BC, Canada

    Shreejoy J. Tripathy

  2. School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Richard C. Gerkin

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Correspondence to Shreejoy J. Tripathy .

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  1. Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Dieter Jaeger

  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA

    Ranu Jung

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Tripathy, S.J., Gerkin, R.C. (2014). NeuroElectro Project. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_477-1

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