IonChannelGenealogy

"Constructing biophysical neuron models has been a time demanding and gruelling process for the past 30 years. ICGenealogy suddenly makes it easy, convenient and even fun. It provides just about all the tools you could wish for at your finger tips, at a level of UI sophistication and user-friendliness that is simply unprecedented in our field. In one word: awesome."

"I think it is important to federate data as you are doing, and this looks a very promising tool and a really useful database which will save a lot of time to modellers!"

"ICG is a great addition to the all too slowly growing ecosystem of neuroinformatics tools and databases. As we all know, more and more often the knowledge is available out there, somewhere, we just cannot find it. ICG provides a highly practical and beautiful interface to the available ion channel models characteristics with practical mechanisms for knowledge extension through user submissions. Of course, proper curation of incoming data, integration with other resources, and especially sustainability are critical for long-term ICG success but we shall definitely be using this resource shopping for new ion channel models. Very useful complement to Channelpedia."

"ICG is a great resource, not only that it speeds up the modelling of biophysically realistic neurons by making ion channel models readily available but also brings order to the zoo of ion channels."

"This is a huge amount of work and really a wonderful gift to anyone using ion channel models. We are very much looking forward to using this database soon for our future models."

"I am extremely excited about ICG - it is a great resource for the neuroscience modeling community and is a perfect example of how a commitment to open science can transform our approach to creating, using, and sharing models and what we can learn from them."

"This is a great new neuronal modelling resource - a really useful addition to ModelDB. It makes my the beginning of a new project so much more enjoyable. The fear of overlooking the ‘right’ model, or using the wrong one is gone! Good job - keep it up!"

"A great resource for conductance-based modeling."

"Such comprehensive catalog is a huge contribution to the whole community."

"ICGenealogy is a great resource for the computational neuroscience field. It was desperately needed. It has dramatically reduced the time I needed to collect ion channel model information from the literature, and as a result has helped me to do systematic comparisons of large numbers of channel types that would be otherwise difficult or impossible to achieve."

"ICG is an extremely helpful tool if you want to do proper modeling involving ion channels."