Introduction
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A project highlighting some of the possible interactions between OSB and NeuroElectro/SciUnit

Installing SciUnit and NeuroUnit
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SciUnit is a pythonic framework for testing scientific models: https://github.com/rgerkin/sciunit.
NeuroUnit is a library of SciUnit tests and capabilities for neuroscience. https://github.com/rgerkin/neurounit. [SciUnit]() https://github.com/rgerkin/sciunit

The Neuroelectro API
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Data used for testing models with SciUnit sciunit can be obtained in a variety of places. Here we focus on automated testing by pulling electrophysiologal properties of neurons from the literature using NeuroElectro (http://www.neuroelectro.org). The API for grabbing data from NeuroElectro is documented here: http://goo.gl/fuPSu.

Testing neuroConstruct models with neurounit (sciunit):
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In jython:

\$ cd \~/neuroConstruct \# Or wherever it is.
\$ ./nCjython \# Assumes there is a “jython” somewhere in your system path.
>>> import neurounit.jutils as j
>>> print j.get\_volts()

In python:

\$ cd \~/neuroConstruct \# Or wherever it is.
\$ python
>>> import neurounit.putils as p
>>> data = p.run() \# Opens the bridge to jython.
>>> volts = data.receive() \# Runs the simulations and receives the data (hangs).
>>> print volts