Readme.txt for an implementation of the model associated with the paper: Brunel N (2000) Dynamics of sparsely connected networks of excitatory and inhibitory spiking neurons. J Comput Neurosci 8:183-208 The brunel.sli file was supplied by Marc-Oliver Gewaltig and runs under NEST. Please contact Marc-Oliver Gewaltig marc-oliver.gewaltig at epfl.ch for more information. 20120105 IMPORTANT NOTE: *** the brunel.sli file included here is incompatible with the most recent version of NEST. Please use the version in examples/nest/brunel-2000.sli in your local NEST installation. It is also suggested (and supported by "Tom Tetzlaff" [t.tetzlaff at fz-juelich.de]) to control NEST from python using PyNEST: see http://nest-initiative.org/index.php/PyNEST In pynest/examples/brunel-delta-nest.py you'll find a python script for the Brunel network example.