# Spiking Neural Networks

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/spiking-neural-networks/63270>\
**Category:** Modelling & Simulations\
**Tags:** biology, neural-network\
**Created:** [June 21, 2021, 3:58am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/spiking-neural-networks/63270 "2021-06-21T03:58:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dhruva2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dhruva2/32/18475_2.png) [@Dhruva2](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Dhruva2)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2026, 4:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/spiking-neural-networks/63270/34 "2026-07-09T16:32:19Z")

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SNNExamples looks cool! I built NeuronBuilder a while ago (with lots of help from Pavel Piekarz and Andrea Hincapie) and gave up for various reasons. With the new ModelingToolkit it’s much easier and less hacky to compose components like ion channels etc so now have [[ANN] MTKNeuralToolkit.jl- acausal modelling of biophysical neurons and neural circuits](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-mtkneuraltoolkit-jl-acausal-modelling-of-biophysical-neurons-and-neural-circuits/138039)

which is a WIP. Improvements and suggestions really welcomed. But the code fells much cleaner and more minimal/extensible. Got the core stuff working like networks and calcium tracking/calcium channels, and compartmental geometries/morphologies (though this could be extended)

i’m hoping the fundamentals that exist right now don’t need to be changed and will easily support extending to more functionality

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