ASCENT

Basic ASCENT Usage

  • Getting Started
  • Running ASCENT
    • How to use ASCENT
    • Command-Line Arguments
    • Information on ASCENT controls
    • Plotter Module
    • ASCENT on oSPARC
  • JSON Configuration Files
  • Publishing with ASCENT

Advanced ASCENT Usage

  • Creating Mock Morphology
  • Part Primitives and Custom Cuffs
  • Modeling Neural Recording
  • Convergence Analysis Example
  • Troubleshooting Guide

ASCENT Hierarchies

  • Code Hierarchy
  • Data Hierarchy

Reference

  • Publications Utilizing ASCENT
  • References
  • ASCENT Validation
  • Changelog

External Links

  • ASCENT Publication
  • ASCENT on GitHub
  • The Grill Lab
  • NIH SPARC
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Running ASCENT

  • How to use ASCENT
    • Running the ASCENT Pipeline
    • Submitting NEURON jobs
    • Other Scripts
    • Data analysis tools
  • Command-Line Arguments
    • run
    • submit.py
  • Information on ASCENT controls
    • Morphology Input Files
    • Control of medium surrounding nerve and cuff electrode
    • Cuff placement on nerve
    • Simulation Protocols
    • Implementation of NEURON fiber models
    • Defining and assigning materials in COMSOL
  • Plotter Module
    • heatmaps()
    • _HeatmapPlotter
    • ap_loctime()
  • ASCENT on oSPARC
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Musselman ED, Cariello JE, Grill WM, Pelot NA. ASCENT (Automated Simulations to Characterize Electrical Nerve Thresholds): A Pipeline for Sample-Specific Computational Modeling of Electrical Stimulation of Peripheral Nerves. PLoS Comput Biol [Internet]. 2021; Available from: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009285

Peña E, Pelot NA, Grill WM. Computational models of compound nerve action potentials: Efficient filter-based methods to quantify effects of tissue conductivities, conduction distance, and nerve fiber parameters. PLoS Comput Biol 20(3): e1011833. 2024; Available from: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011833

ASCENT software available from: https://github.com/wmglab-duke/ascent