Easy way to 'import' a NEURON model to Jaxley?

[briandepasquale]

I'm quite new to jaxley, and it's been well over a decade since I used NEURON. There's a NEURON model from ModelDB (https://modeldb.science/118662) that I'd like to translate over to jaxley. Is there an easy/obvious way to do this, or to do it for some part of the model (e.g., just the morphology from .hoc files)? Thanks!

[michaeldeistler]

Hi there,

thanks for reaching out! Unfortunately, we do not yet support automated translation of NEURON models.

• for morphologies, Jaxley supports SWC files. Thus, you would have to export your morphology .hoc file (e.g. dm1_morph_1.hoc) to an .swc file. There are conversion tools available (e.g. here) but I have not tried them myself.
• for channels (or other mechanisms), we are working on an automated tool that directly translates .nmodl files to Jaxley compatible channels.

Please let us know if you need any more input or if anything is not working as expected!

All the best
Michael

[briandepasquale]

Thanks! I'll give the .hoc->.swc conversion tool a shot, and reach out with any challenges.

[michaeldeistler]

Cool! Keep us updated, I would be curious to hear if this works!

[briandepasquale]

Thanks! I gave it a shot and hit an error almost immediately. I opened an issue issue with the developers but if you have any insight I'd welcome it!

[michaeldeistler]

Ah, too bad! I don't think I have any direct insights on why it's crashing unfortunately. Let's see what the devs say!