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For this year's project, we have decided to use the [http://www.neuron.yale.edu NEURON] scripting language and the accompanying Graphic User Interface to model our neuronal toggle switch. This modeling is useful to our team as it helps us both visualize our project, and also allows us to test, in silica, the parameters which will allow our system to function in the fashion which we desire.
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Naturally, it is faster and more efficient to "test" our system with simulations than to test it with actual neurons, and it allows us the opportunity to put our "proof of principle" experiments into the greater context of our project. Specifically, we will use Neuron's abilities to model both pacemaker cells and fast excitatory/slow inhibitory synaptic transmissions to demonstrate how our current experimental cells, when arranged in proper geometry and ratios, will allow one to build a fully functioning toggle switch

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For this year's project, we have decided to use the [http://www.neuron.yale.edu NEURON] scripting language and the accompanying Graphic User Interface to model our neuronal toggle switch. This modeling is useful to our team as it helps us both visualize our project, and also allows us to test, in silica, the parameters which will allow our system to function in the fashion which we desire.


Naturally, it is faster and more efficient to "test" our system with simulations than to test it with actual neurons, and it allows us the opportunity to put our "proof of principle" experiments into the greater context of our project. Specifically, we will use Neuron's abilities to model both pacemaker cells and fast excitatory/slow inhibitory synaptic transmissions to demonstrate how our current experimental cells, when arranged in proper geometry and ratios, will allow one to build a fully functioning toggle switch