ConclusionsDavis is a freely available data viewer that supports multiple simultaneous views of data with spatial and temporal dependencies. We illustrate the use of Davis here by comparing two models of the turtle visual cortex. Shown are direct views, parallel coordinate views of orderings, space time activity diagrams with overlays and KL caricatures [4, 5, 6]. The Davis website is http://vip.cs.utsa.edu/research/Davis/index.html.

AcknowledgementsWe are grateful to our collaborators on the turtle brain project, Philip Ulinski and Bijoy Ghosh, for sharing their models and insight. This work was partially supported by NIH (G12 RR13646) and NSF EIA-0217884, NSF-NIH collaborative research in neuroscience.

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IntroductionDavis (Data Viewing System) is a general-purpose data viewer designed for the simultaneous display and comparison of dynamic data sets. Inspired by the need to explore data from imaging experiments and large computational models of the cerebral cortex, Davis allows scientists to study the detailed behavior of individual elements and the interaction of these elements to achieve cortical function. Davis provides direct views that animate activity over time. Davis also supports parallel coordinate latency visualizations, remapped space-time activity diagrams, and low dimensional-projections of correlated behavior that facilitate comparison of structure across data sets. We demonstrate Davis by comparing two versions of the NGU.

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1Department of Computer Science 2Department of Biology 3Cajal Neuroscience Research CenterUniversity of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249

NGU model of turtle visual cortexThe NGU model [2] has 4 types of neurons (lateral, medial, horizontal and stellate neurons). LGN HH neurons deliver the input. A modified NGU model adds inhibitory subpial neurons [3]. The models are run under Genesis [1] using diffuse flash stimuli.

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Davis interface is built automatically from user XML files