.. NNGT documentation master file

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Welcome to NNGT's documentation!
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Overview
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The Neural Network Growth and Topology (NNGT) module provides tools to grow and
study detailed biological networks by interfacing efficient graph libraries
with highly distributed activity simulators.


Main classes
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NNGT uses four main classes:

:class:`~nngt.Graph`
  provides a simple implementation over graphs objects from graph libraries
  (namely the addition of a name, management of detailed nodes and connection
  properties, and simple access to basic graph measurements).
:class:`~nngt.SpatialGraph`
  a Graph embedded in space (neurons have positions and connections are
  associated to a distance)
:class:`~nngt.Network`
  provides more detailed characteristics to emulate biological neural
  networks, such as classes of inhibitory and excitatory neurons, synaptic
  properties...
:class:`~nngt.SpatialNetwork`
  combines spatial embedding and biological properties


Generation of graphs
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Structured connectivity:
  connectivity between the nodes can be chosen from various well-known graph
  models
Populations:
  populations of neurons are distributed afterwards on the structured
  connectivity, and can be set to respect various constraints (for instance a
  given fraction of inhibitory neurons and synapses)
Synaptic properties:
  synaptic weights and delays can be set from various distributions or
  correlated to edge properties


Interacting with NEST
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The generated graphs can be used to easily create complex networks using the
NEST simulator, on which you can then simulate their activity.


The docs
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :caption: User Documentation

   user/install
   user/intro

.. toctree::
   :glob:
   :maxdepth: 2
   :caption: Developer space

   developer/detailed-structure
   developer/graph-attributes

.. toctree::
   :glob:
   :maxdepth: 1
   :caption: Modules

   modules/nngt
   modules/analysis
   modules/generation
   modules/lib
   modules/plot
   modules/simulation


Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`