Arbor-compatible NMODL representation of AMPA, NMDA, and GABA synapses

[noraabiakar]

Several variants of the synapses can be found here: https://github.com/dbbs-lab/dbbs-mod-collection/tree/master/dbbs_mod_collection/mod

• AMPA_0
• AMPA_granule
• GABA_0
• GABA_biexp
• GABA_granule
• NMDA_granule
• NMDA_stellate.

These mechanisms employ the use of arrays and net_send. Both of these features are not supported by arbor or the modcc compiler. This is mostly a placeholder issue.

[schmitts]

Do we have users requesting these mechanisms?

[noraabiakar]

The arborio team has been requesting these mechanism. I will tag the issue.

[noraabiakar]

Meetings of minutes related to this top can be found here

[brenthuisman]

@boeschf will try to get hold of @noraabiakar to see what the status is, and where the code is, if any.

[thorstenhater]

Code is here: https://github.com/noraabiakar/synapses but we have no PR or assignee, yet.

[brenthuisman]

@noraabiakar would you still be interested in wrapping this up? A minimal PR would be OK!

[brenthuisman]

@Helveg Do you still need this? Are there other AMPA/NMDA/GABA nmodl that do work, e.g. from a modeldb or do you need these specific ones? If so, why? We can discuss offline.

[Helveg]

Yes, still a project requirement of arborio

[brenthuisman]

Is the requirement for these specific ones, or could other implementations of these mechs be used? At the dev meet, it was suggested there exist mechs doing e.g. AMPA that don't rely on currently unsupported NMODL. Is that an option?