A database that provides a comprehensive and quantitative assay of ion channel models currently available in the neuroscientific modeling community. Specifically, it contains analyses of the ion channel models from NEURON. The database quantifies the similarity in kinetics between models using a series of standardized voltage clamp simulation protocols and subsequent cluster analysis. Citation links and duplications of channels, along with similarity of kinetics between channel models, are combined into genealogical trees and dendrograms that are searchable through the ICG web interface. ICG also experimentally recorded current traces and provides tools for uploading new channel models.

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