This year I would be working on Importing NeuroML morphologies into Brian as part of GSOC 2k18. Thanks INCF for this opportunity!!

Brian is a free, open source simulator for spiking neural networks. It is designed to be easy to learn and use, highly flexible and easily extensible. It is a simulator designed to save processing time and to ease the work of scientists. As part of my project I would be adding support to import morphologies from a NeuroML file into Brian simulator. You can find more about this project here
This is the first week of commumity bonding period it has been great so far. As suggested by my mentor Marcel Stimberg I introduced myself and my project on Brian’s Community group.
Apart from that this week I established my work environment. This includes setting PYlems, JNeuroML, libNeuroML and NEURON simulator. I decided to post my weekly progress on both medium and my own Blog hosted on github. we decided to use brian2tools repository for project related discussions as all the development will take place in this repository.

I spent a handsome amount of time in analyzing multiple tools (namely JneuroML, Pylems and liNeuroML) available for parsing NeuroML file. From what I found libNeuroML best meets our requirement and I would focus on it now. A nice document explaining libNeuroML and PYlems is here.

While setting up JNeuroML I found some issues and have submitted a PR fixing it. Next week I would be working on libNeuroML, understanding the best way to use it for our use case.

Hoping for an eventful and interesting GSOC 2k18!!.