Setting up

Step 1) Find the original model code

The original code is published on ModelDB.

Step 2) Create GitHub and Open Source Brain accounts for sharing the code

2a) Sign up to GitHub and Open Source Brain

We signed in to GitHub and OSBv1

2b) Create GitHub repository

ModelDB provides GitHub repositories for all its models now. This model is available on GitHub here: ModelDBRepository/262670. The Open Source Brain (OSB) organization on GitHub also keeps a “fork” of these repositories to allow users to easily add them to both Open Source Brain v1 and v2. This fork is here, and is the one that we will work with: OpenSourceBrain/262670.

For the conversion, I (Ankur) created a fork of this repository with a new branch to work in: sanjayankur31/262670. A pull request work flow was used to submit converted bits back to the repository.

The first step was to re-organise the code to prepare it for conversion. All the existing code was moved to a new NEURON folder, and a new NeuroML2 folder set up to store the NeuroML version.

2c) Create Open Source Brain project

A new project was created on OSBv1 and linked to the OSB repository: https://v1.opensourcebrain.org/projects/locust-mushroom-body.