NeuroML is an ongoing collaborative effort to support the use of XML for software relating to neuroscience modeling. It is not a single standard XML language - but rather a collection of related XML projects for modeling different aspects and levels of neural systems, from intracellular mechanisms and ion channel kinetics to the dynamics of networks of reconstructed neurons.

Building working models of neurons and neural circuits is one of the best ways of furthering our understanding of how neural systems work. But these models are often themselves complex programs, understandable only to the researcher who developed them. In order to make them more transparent and accessible, it is useful to express these models in a declarative fashion. XML is an ideal representation for the complex structure of neuroscience models, as it is both open and capable of representing arbitrarily complex structures.

NeuroML has two major aims:

1. To support the use of declarative specifications for models in neuroscience using XML.
2. To foster the development of XML standards for computational neuroscience modeling.

Visit our Projects page for information about how NeuroML supports these two aims.

To receive updates on NeuroML, visit our Contacts page for instructions on joining our mailing lists. If you are interested in contributing to the development of NeuroML standards, sign up at the NeuroML Developers' Site at SourceForge.net, which contains developer resources.