Installation

Dendrify is included in the Python package index: https://pypi.org/project/dendrify. The easiest way to install it is through pip, using the command:

pip install dendrify

Dependencies

• Brian 2 (required) is a simulator for spiking neural networks. It is written in Python and is available on almost all platforms. Brian is designed to be easy to learn and use, highly flexible and easily extensible.

  • How to install Brian 2

• Netwokx (optional) is a Python package for the creation, manipulation, and study of the structure, dynamics, and functions of complex networks. If you wish Dendrify to have access to certain experimental model visualization features, you can install it using the command:

  pip install networkx
  

GPU support

Dendrify is compatible with Brian2CUDA, a Python package for simulating spiking neural networks on graphics processing units (GPUs). Brian2CUDA is an extension of Brian2 that uses the code generation system of the latter to generate simulation code in C++/CUDA, which is then executed on NVIDIA GPUs.

• How to install Brian2CUDA