Topographica: Building and Analyzing Map-Level Simulations from Python, C/C++, MATLAB, NEST, or NEURON Components

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Nengo: a Python tool for building large-scale functional brain models (2014, background): “The most closely related projects in terms of software design are PyNN (Davison et al., 2008) and Topographica (Bednar, 2009), both of which provide a high-level scripting interface to low-level neural simulators.”
Python in neuroscience (2015, methodology): “However, as the articles by Goodman and Brette (2008) on the Brian simulator and Bednar (2009) on the Topographica simulator demonstrate, it is also possible to develop new simulation environments purely in Python, making use of the vectorization techniques available in the underlying NumPy package…”