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Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience
New MIEN Visualization Feature
Dr. Graham Cummins, a postdoc in the Center for Computational Biology, is the author of a suite of software that assists with the analysis of neuroanatomical and time series data, and he has added a new feature to visualize density fields. Check out these beautiful examples from the cricket cercal system. The rainbow clouds are color coded according to the direction of air current that elicits the strongest response from afferents.
MIEN (Model Interaction Environment for Neuroscience) is a programming project designed to allow researchers to integrate physiological, morphological, and mathematical descriptions of biological systems into unified models. Mien also incorporates tools for evaluation of models and data visualization. The core of the system is an XML dialect for specifying the models, parameters, experiments, data, connections, etc., and a set of python classes for providing these descriptions with useful functions. For more information, see http://sourceforge.net/projects/mien and MIEN project.
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