The following table gives the name, type and content of the xnbc files.
An important fiel is the invisible /.xnbcrc file, in the home directory. This file always stores the current working xnbc project and directory, the current network file and the current simulation file. It is automatically updated and allows to quit xnbc and runing it back with the same simulation environment. Removing this file is not a good idea, since all programs (except neuon editors, since neuron description ca be stored anywhere and their location is stored in the network description file .lnk). If this file does not exists, the current path becomes ./noname_nbc and the other files ./noname_nbc/noname.
In the table when a file name is called XX and YY, this signifies that all XX (or YY) files have the same XX (or YY) prefix and a different extension and that XX and YY can be different (but can be also identical).
All text files can be edited using any text editor (but the file structure should be unsderstood ...). Binary files are not editable.
| Program | Input files | Output files | Content | Type | PostScript files |
| xnbc control panel | /.xnbcrc | /.xnbcrc | current files | ||
| Neuron editors | |||||
| Phenomenologic | *.P_unit | *.P_unit | unit parameters | text | *.P_unit.ps |
| *.L_unit | *.L_unit | unit parameters | text | *.L_unit.ps | |
| *.B_unit | *.B_unit | unit parameters | text | *.B_unit.ps | |
Conductance |
*.G_unit | *.G_unit | unit parameters | text | *.G_unit.ps |
| *.G_unit_XY.ps | |||||
| *.G_unit_activ.ps | |||||
Network editors |
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| Simple | /.xnbcrc | YY.lnk | network description | text | |
| XX.lnk | YY.clu | clusters used | text | ||
| YY.len | axon lengths | bin | |||
| YY.wgt | synaptic weights | bin | |||
| YY.anat | unit position | bin | |||
| /.xnbcrc | text | ||||
Full featured |
/.xnbcrc | YY.lnk | network description | text | YY.ps |
| XX.lnk | YY.clu | clusters used | text | ||
| /.net_customrc | YY.len | axon lengths | bin | ||
| YY.wgt | synaptic weights | bin | |||
| YY.anat | unit position | bin | |||
| /.net_customrc | customizations | text | |||
| /.xnbcrc | text | ||||
Drug editor |
/.xnbcrc | Default.drug | drug description | text | |
Simulator |
/.xnbcrc | YY.pmb | membrane potential | text | |
| XX.lnk | YY.sim | global activity | text | ||
| XX.clu | YY.tms | time series | text | ||
| XX.x_def | YY.mod | modifications | text | ||
| *.P_unit | YY.prm | parameters | text | ||
| *.L_unit | YY.x_def | parameters | bin | ||
| *.B_unit | /.xnbcrc | text | |||
| *.tms | |||||
Visualization |
/.xnbcrc | YY.ps | |||
| XX.lnk | |||||
| XX.anat | |||||
| YY.sim | |||||
Analysis tools |
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| Time series | /.xtmsrc | /.xtmsrc | user defaults | text | |
| /.xnbcrc | YY.acr | autocorrrelogram | text | YY.ps | |
| YY.tms | YY.ccr | cross correlogram | text | ||
| YY.hst | post event histogram | text | |||
| YY.isi | interspike interval | text | |||
Time series |
/.xnbcrc | YY.acr | autocorrrelogram | text | YY.ps |
| YY.sim | YY.ccr | cross correlogram | text | ||
| YY.hst | post event histogram | text | |||
| YY.isi | interspike interval | text |