Tutorials & E-Library

Mr. Shlomo Nimrodi, CEO of Ramot, the tech transfer office of Tel Aviv University, tells the audience how technology can be transferred from academy to industry. How can interests of all parties involved (researchers, the universities, industry etc.) be reconciled? In the second part of the lecture, Prof. Gazit and Prof. Offen share their personal experience as entrepreneurs in the field of neuroscience coming from the academia, combining research in the lab with entrepreneurship - How do they manage to do it? What is their advice?

This course dives into various innovation management tools used in the HBP and EBRAINS context. Part 1 provides a general introduction to innovation, innovation taxonomies and touches upon the concepts of open and closed innovation. It introduces the concept of "exploitation" in the context of the European Framework Programmes Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe. Finally, multiple Innovation Management Tools used in the Human Brain Project and EBRAINS are exemplified.

This tutorial introduces machine-learning-inspired spiking neural network modelling on BrainScaleS-2. It covers how to emulate SNN models on BrainScales-2, with fully integrated gradient estimation. It also covers various examples for applications of this modelling approach.

This tutorial was recorded as part of the NICE workshop 2023.

Neuromorphic computing implements aspects of biological neural networks as analogue or digital copies on electronic circuits. The goal of this approach is twofold: Offering a tool for neuroscience to understand the dynamic processes of learning and development in the brain and applying brain inspiration to generic cognitive computing. Key advantages of neuromorphic computing compared to traditional approaches are energy efficiency, execution speed, robustness against local failures and the ability to learn.

This tutorial covers how you use the SpiNNaker system, how you connect, and how you can use PyNN language to run simulations on SpiNNaker.

The slides of the presentation can be found here: https://flagship.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/jss/HBPm?m=displayPresentation&mI=235&mEID=8982

This tutorial was given as part of the NICE Workshop 2022.

This hands-on tutorial for BrainScaleS 2 illustrates how to connect neuron circuits to form multi-compartmental neuron models. This tutorial was recorded as part of the NICE Workshop 2022.

Innovators and entrepreneurs should constantly think about the future. The specific time horizon of interest may vary between one and ten years, depending on the specific initiative and its nature. Although it is really impossible to predict the future with certainty, innovators and entrepreneurs need to have an opinion about it. What tools exist and how does one form a useful view about the future? In this lecture we will talk about prediction tools and techniques, focusing mainly on emerging trends.

Innovators and entrepreneurs should constantly think about the future. The specific time horizon of interest may vary between one and ten years, depending on the specific initiative and its nature. Although it is really impossible to predict the future with certainty, innovators and entrepreneurs need to have an opinion about it. What tools exist and how does one form a useful view about the future? In this lecture we will talk about prediction tools and techniques, focusing mainly on emerging trends.

This tutorial is an introductory tutorial on live papers and can be used as a step-by-step walkthrough of the EBRAINS Live Papers tools:
https://live-papers.apps.ebrains.eu/

02:01 Introduction to Live Papers
03:53 Live Paper Platform
04:37 Walkthrough a sample Live Paper
10:11 Live Paper Builder
10:26 EBRAINS account and the Collaboratory
10:33 Request EBRAINS account
11:22 Intro to Collaboratory & Collabs
12:18 Create a new Collab
13:53 Overview of Teams & Live Paper permissions
15:42 Start creating a new live paper
16:29 Loading metadata via DOI
16:51 Loading metadata via PDF
18:16 Entering/updating metadata manually
21:38 Preview live papers
22:01 Adding resource sections
22:36 Generic section
22:51 Common features
23:26 Adding entries to section
23:57 Expanding input area
24:32 Re-ordering entries in section
24:43 Grouping items into tabs
25:51 Editing source code
27:18 Deleting items
27:25 Simple multi-input tool
29:19 Collapsing a live paper section
29:38 Re-ordering live paper sections
29:53 Deleting a live paper section
30:22 Morphology section
31:36 Add from external database
34:30 Electrophysiology section
36:08 Add from external database
36:42 Models section
37:15 Add from external database
38:23 Custom HTML/Markdown section
39:33 Example
41:19 Download live papers
42:34 Save live papers
43:44 Submit live papers
43:58 Publish live paper
44:40 Password-protect live paper
45:00 Example
46:01 Resume working on an existing live paper
46:19 Load existing live paper project from file
47:03 Load existing live paper project from KG

As part of the NICE Workshop 2022, this tutorial demonstrates the BrainScaleS 2 Inter-Chip Pulse Communication using Extoll. It also gives you a demonstration of this tool.

Slides can be found here: https://flagship.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/jss/HBPm?m=displayPresentation&mI=235&mEID=8924

This tutorial was featured during the Simulate with EBRAINS workshop on 7-9 November 2022. The tutorial focusses on Simulations with SpiNNaker, specifically through Jupyter.

Brainstorm orients most of its database organization and processing stream for handling anatomical information together with the MEG/EEG recordings, because its primary focus was to estimate brain sources from MEG/EEG, which ideally requires an accurate spatial modelling of the head and sensors.

If you don't have anatomical scans of your subjects or are not interested in any spatial display, various solution will be presented along the tutorials, starting from the last section of this page. Be patient and follow everything as instructed, you will get to the information you need.