ModelDB

Overview

ModelDB is the primary open repository for published computational neuroscience models, operated by Yale University since 1996. Researchers deposit the simulation code associated with published papers so that others can verify, reproduce, and build on the model. Code can be submitted in any language or simulation environment; the repository has particular support for NeuroML-formatted submissions, enabling simulator-independent model sharing. As of 2025, ModelDB hosts over 1,500 published models covering more than 130 research topics, from single-cell ion channel dynamics to large-scale network simulations. Models are freely accessible and browsable by brain region, neuron type, and topic.

Connections

• accepts: NeuroML (ModelDB accepts and promotes NeuroML-format model submissions as a simulator-independent representation)
• relatedTo: INCF (ModelDB is listed among INCF neuroinformatics resources; NeuroML, its primary structured format, is endorsed by INCF)

Resources

• https://modeldb.science
• https://modeldb.science/api/v1/ (REST API)
• https://doi.org/10.1007/s10827-016-0623-7 (McDougal et al. 2017, twenty years of ModelDB)