Artificial Neural Networks recommendation

[Andrew Davison]

On Feb 24, 1:49 pm, Gereon Kaiping <gereon.kaip... at yahoo.de> wrote:
> - - PyNN (just a builder, requires external simulator) –http://neuralensemble.org/trac/PyNN/
> - - Con-x (part of pyro) –http://pyrorobotics.org/?page=Conx
> - - PyNeurGen (includes genetic algorithms) –http://pyneurgen.sourceforge.net/
> - - ffnet (only fast forward) –http://ffnet.sourceforge.net/
> - - brian (spiking networks) –http://www.briansimulator.org/
> - - PyBrain (machine learning) –http://pybrain.org/
>
> Can you give me a recommendation or a review on some of these?

PyNN and Brian are intended more for biologically-realistic neural
networks (for some value of realistic), aka neuronal networks, so I
guess you can rule them out (similar tools that you might come across
are NEST, NEURON, PCSIM).

Cheers,

Andrew