HippoUnit

This package contains validation tests for models of hippocampus, based on the SciUnit framework and the NeuronUnit package. As in SciUnit, in HippoUnit tests four main classes are implemented: the Test class, the Model class, the Capabilities class and the Score class. The tests of HippoUnit automatically run simulations on single-cell models that mimic the electrophysiological protocol from which the target experimental data were derived. Then the behavior of the model is evaluated and quantitatively compared to the experimental data using various feature-based error functions. Current tests cover somatic behavior and signal propagation and integration in apical dendrites of hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cell models.