Explore what already exists

Step 1 of the TVB-O spine: find the curated dynamics, connectomes, atlases and published studies you can reference instead of rebuilding.

Most of a brain-network experiment has been written before. TVB-O ships a curated knowledge base — dynamical systems, connectomes, atlases, stimulation protocols and whole published studies — and every entry has an IRI you can point at. Exploring first is what keeps a specification three lines long instead of three hundred, and it is why two experiments that reference tvbo:Generic2dOscillator are comparable by construction rather than by inspection.

This step ends when you know which curated entities your experiment will reuse and which parts you genuinely have to write yourself.

Find what is curated

The platform, feature by feature

Browse and search the knowledge base in the hosted web app, with no install.

Ontology

The vocabulary the IRIs come from, and how a term grounds a parameter.

Examples

Runnable specs, from a single node to a fitted whole-brain model.

Replication studies

Published papers already encoded as TVB-O studies.

Searching from the shell works too: tvbo info dynamics:JansenRit prints a curated entity’s states, parameters, outputs and the backends it runs on.

Next

Once you know what to reuse, ② Specify turns it into a SimulationExperiment.