A first analysis of requirements for the storage of simulation experiments performed on computational neuroscience models using the Simulation Experiment Description Markup-Language (SED-ML).

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Dagmar Waltemath
• Subject Area: Cognitive, Systems and Behavioural Neurobiology
• Term: from 2011 to 2012
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 209722183

The goal of this research project is the extension of a language for the standardised description of simulation experiments performed on computational neuroscience models. I have, over the last year, worked on a format for the storage and exchange of simulation experiments in computational systems biology, called Simulation Experiment Description Markup-Language (SED-ML). The format is well-known and supported by different groups in the area of reaction network models.However, the goal of this research project is the expansion of SED-ML on other areas. One such area is computational neuroscience; the interest in SED-ML already led to first exchange of ideas with members of the INCF. The next step is to identify the short-comings of SED-ML for neuroscience simulation and to implement an enhanced version of it.During the research stay in the group of Prof. Plesser at the UMB, I will study neuroscience models and their simulation. I will also have the opportunity to discuss standardisation efforts. The Plesser group provides its own simulator, called NEST, which will be used to test the suggested extensions to the SED-ML language.

• DFG Programme: Research Fellowships
• International Connection: Norway
• Host: Professor Dr. Ekkehard Plesser