Version 1.142   Monday November 26 2001

Catacomb includes frameworks for various types of models in neuroscience, user interfaces to facilitate building models within these frameworks, and numerical algorithms to compute their behavior. The available frameworks include reaction kinetics, reaction diffusion systems, kinetic scheme models of ion channels, neurons, and integrate and fire networks.

Catacomb is funded under grants: NSF IBN 9996177, NIH MH 60013 and NIH MH 61492 to Professor Mike Hasselmo, Boston University. Early development was funded by the Wellcome Trust and the French Minsitry of Education and Research.

download/install	Catacomb is distributed free under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It runs anywhere there is java version 1.1.8 or later, including Linux, Windows and MacOS.
gallery	What the user interface looks like for model construction and exploration.
what can it do?	An overview of the problem domains covered by Catacomb, how it works, and what it looks like.
user documentation	Browsable versions of the user guides and reference pages included with Catacomb.
In depth	Explanation of how Catacomb is designed to address particular modeling problems, how to use it from other software, and how to develop new components.
models	Example models built with catacomb - under (re)construction.
contact	Let us know what you do with Catacomb and any problems you may have.

See also

Catacomb can be used in conjunction with NeuroML, the proposed new XML based Markup Language for models in neuroscience. Indeed, the methods and data structures used by catacomb are gradually being migrated to fit the NeuroML standard exactly. One day soon it will also work with NEOSIM a discrete event simulator for modeling networks, and with the neural simulation package Neuron. Catacomb also underlies Spatch a virtual lab simulator for experiments in electrophysiology funded by the French Ministry of Education. 3345