MIEN (Model Interaction Environment for Neuroscience) is a programming project designed to allow researchers to integrate physiological, morphological, and mathematical descriptions of biological systems into unified models. Mien also incorporates tools for evaluation of models and data visualization.

Mien is designed for easy extension using user written blocks, and there are several projects underway to provide useful Mien block sets.

The Mien project is still "alpha" code, but has been under development for several years and is used by the Center for Computational biology for a variety of everyday research tasks.

Mien is written primarily in Python with some extensions in C

The Mien project is hosted by sourcforge. The web site is at http://mien.sourceforge.net, and the project site (including downloads) is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mien. Source code is available via subversion using the url "http://armitage.cns.montana.edu/svn/mien". Currently, the Sourceforge downloads are likely to be out of date, so to get the most current code, use subversion.

Mien documentation can be found here

CCB Mien Projects

My current CCB projects may (for example FIBR) use extensions which are included in my mienblocks svn repository, but are not generally useful. If you work with CCB and want information on these custom extensions, check my private lab site for information