Critical open source scientific software: https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn

high-performance-computing neuron neuroscience simulation

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NEURON Simulator

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn
Owner: neuronsimulator
License: other
Created: 2016-10-22T08:47:37.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2026-08-06T03:55:37.000Z (7 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-06T06:13:07.905Z (7 days ago)
Topics: high-performance-computing, neuron, neuroscience, simulation
Language: C++
Homepage: https://www.neuronsimulator.org
Size: 166 MB
Stars: 532
Watchers: 23
Forks: 148
Open Issues: 468
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- Codemeta: codemeta.json
- Copyright: Copyright

CodeMeta metadata:

@context: https://doi.org/10.5063/schema/codemeta-2.0
Type: SoftwareSourceCode
Application category: neuroscience
Author:
- - Id: _:author_1
  - Type: Person
  - Affiliation:
    - Type: Organization
    - Name: Yale University
  - Email: michael.hines@yale.edu
  - Family name: Hines
  - Given name: Michael
Code repository: git+https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn.git
Date modified: 2025-11-17
Description: Empirically-based simulator for modeling neurons and networks of neurons
Download url: https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/releases/tag/9.0.1
Funder:
- Type: Organization
- Name: Yale University
License: https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
Name: NEURON
Operating system:
- Linux
- Windows
- macOS
Programming language:
- C++
- Python 3
Related link: https://www.neuronsimulator.org/
Schema:release notes: This release fixes several bugs and adds support for Python 3.14. ### What's New - Add Python 3.14 support (#3635) - Remove doxygen from search results on readthedocs (#3664) - Add example with compilation for C API (#3658) ### Bug Fixes - Use `[:blank:]` character class for SWC parser (#3651) - Fix HOC File.dir() on Windows (#3653) - NET_RECEIVE INITIAL not vectorized translation needs set_globals_from_prop (#3640) ### Improvements / Other Changes - Make `NRN_INSTALL_PYTHON_PREFIX` configurable (#3654) - Improve error message when Python lib is not found (#3650) - Use `command -v` instead of `which` in nrnpyenv.sh (#3516) - Better errors for `report.conf` (#3641) - Bump min required CMake version to 3.19
Software requirements:
- Bison
- Flex
- C/C++ compiler
- CMake >= 3.19.0
Version: 9.0.1
Development status: active
Funding: R01NS11613
Issue tracker: https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/issues

Owner metadata:

Name: The NEURON Simulator
Login: neuronsimulator
Email:
Kind: organization
Description:
Website: http://neuron.yale.edu
Location:
Twitter:
Company:
Icon url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/38567601?v=4
Repositories: 13
Last Synced at: 2023-03-01T23:50:14.314Z
Profile URL: https://github.com/neuronsimulator

GitHub Events

Total

Create event: 333
Delete event: 302
Fork event: 14
Gollum event: 7
Issue comment event: 3428
Issues event: 154
Member event: 3
Pull request event: 556
Pull request review comment event: 504
Pull request review event: 698
Push event: 1553
Release event: 23
Watch event: 58
Total: 7633

Last Year

Create event: 333
Delete event: 302
Fork event: 14
Gollum event: 7
Issue comment event: 3428
Issues event: 154
Member event: 3
Pull request event: 556
Pull request review comment event: 504
Pull request review event: 698
Push event: 1553
Release event: 23
Watch event: 58
Total: 7633

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Last synced: 1 day ago

Total Commits: 6,056
Total Committers: 114
Avg Commits per committer: 53.123
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.696

Commits in past year: 145
Committers in past year: 11
Avg Commits per committer in past year: 13.182
Development Distribution Score (DDS) in past year: 0.628

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Michael Hines	m**s@y**u	1842
Pramod Kumbhar	p**r@e**h	639
Robert A McDougal	r**l@y**u	394
Nicolas Cornu	n**u@e**h	388
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Olli Lupton	o**n@e**h	256
JCGoran	J****n	210
adamjhn	a**n@y**u	206
Ioannis Magkanaris	i**s@g**m	147
Aleksandr Ovcharenko	a**o@e**h	102
Cameron	c**3@g**m	87
Robert A. McDougal	R**l@l**t	80
Omar Awile	o**e@e**h	70
Alessandro Cattabiani	c****i	51
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MikeG	m**t@e**h	37
Matthias Wolf	m**f@e**h	25
Tristan Carel	t**l@g**m	23
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Robert A McDougal	R**l@l**t	21
Liam Keegan	l**m@k**h	21
Bill Lytton	b**l@n**u	20
Omar Awile	o**e@g**m	20
WeinaJi	w**i@e**h	19
Jeremy FOURIAUX	j**x@e**h	18
Robert A McDougal	d**l@l**t	17
Erik Heeren	e**n@e**h	16
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Last synced: 1 day ago

Total issues: 372
Total pull requests: 1,627
Average time to close issues: 10 months
Average time to close pull requests: 23 days
Total issue authors: 51
Total pull request authors: 49
Average comments per issue: 2.35
Average comments per pull request: 7.63
Merged pull request: 1,071
Bot issues: 0
Bot pull requests: 13

Past year issues: 30
Past year pull requests: 89
Past year average time to close issues: 5 days
Past year average time to close pull requests: 12 days
Past year issue authors: 11
Past year pull request authors: 13
Past year average comments per issue: 1.9
Past year average comments per pull request: 5.46
Past year merged pull request: 55
Past year bot issues: 0
Past year bot pull requests: 3

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Package metadata

Total packages: 4
Total downloads:
- pypi: 31,475 last-month
Total dependent packages: 9 (may contain duplicates)
Total dependent repositories: 31 (may contain duplicates)
Total versions: 877
Total maintainers: 11

pypi.org: neuron

Empirically-based simulator for modeling neurons and networks of neurons

Homepage:
Documentation: https://neuron.readthedocs.io/
Licenses: Other/Proprietary License
Latest release: 9.0.2 (published 3 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-12T06:03:14.544Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 30
Dependent Packages: 9
Dependent Repositories: 28
Downloads: 26,996 Last month
Rankings:
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- Average: 2.947%
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Maintainers (9)
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- flpereira
- ramcdougal
- Mike.Vella
- uric
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- heerener
- michael-hines

pypi.org: neuron-nightly

Empirically-based simulator for modeling neurons and networks of neurons

Homepage:
Documentation: https://neuron-nightly.readthedocs.io/
Licenses: Other/Proprietary License
Latest release: 9.0.2.dev102 (published 1 day ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-12T06:04:13.161Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 592
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 1
Downloads: 4,390 Last month
Rankings:
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- Downloads: 4.041%
- Forks count: 4.392%
- Average: 8.727%
- Dependent packages count: 10.126%
- Dependent repos count: 21.535%
Maintainers (5)
- alkino
- pramodk
- flpereira
- ramcdougal
- heerener

pypi.org: neuron-gpu-nightly

Empirically-based simulator for modeling neurons and networks of neurons

Homepage: https://neuron.yale.edu/neuron/
Documentation: https://neuron-gpu-nightly.readthedocs.io/
Licenses: Copyright (c) Michael Hines (BSD compatible)
Latest release: 9.0a0 (published about 3 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-12T06:03:11.323Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 248
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 1
Downloads: 25 Last month
Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 3.539%
- Forks count: 4.39%
- Dependent packages count: 10.141%
- Average: 12.523%
- Dependent repos count: 21.526%
- Downloads: 23.021%
Maintainers (3)
- alkino
- pramodk
- heerener

pypi.org: neuron-gpu

Empirically-based simulator for modeling neurons and networks of neurons

Homepage: https://neuron.yale.edu/neuron/
Documentation: https://neuron-gpu.readthedocs.io/
Licenses: Copyright (c) Michael Hines (BSD compatible)
Latest release: 8.2.2 (published over 3 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-12T06:03:09.760Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 7
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 1
Downloads: 64 Last month
Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 3.539%
- Forks count: 4.39%
- Dependent packages count: 10.141%
- Average: 12.994%
- Dependent repos count: 21.526%
- Downloads: 25.372%
Maintainers (5)
- alexsavulescu
- alkino
- olupton
- pramodk
- heerener

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