NEURON 7.6.2 is now available for download.
New features since NEURON 7.5 include:
- Simplified installation
- Accepting the default install options now allows running from command line and GUI in Mac and Windows.
- Enhanced Jupyter notebook support
- NEURON error messages now display inside the notebook
- Experimental notebook ShapePlot available through neuron.gui2
- GUI improvements and bug fixes
- Sections created in Python are now selectable using the NEURON GUI's "Plot What" functionality
- MovieRun now works when NEURON is run via Python
- Per-segment colorization of Shape objects via shape.color(colorindex, seg)
- Extracellular reaction-diffusion support (described in Newton et al., 2018)
- Available through the neuron.crxd module which also supports intracellular reaction-diffusion with just-in-time compiled reactions
- Miscellaneous enhancements and bug fixes
- NEURON methods now return appropriate data types (int/bool/float), e.g. pc.nhost() now returns an int
- Enhanced comparison support for NEURON objects
- New section methods for morphologies, e.g. sec.pt3dadd()
- New sec.psection() methods provides a data structure describing that section's properties
- NetCon.preloc() and NetCon.preseg() now return true NetCon locations
- Import3D now ignores blank lines in SWC files