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== GENESIS as an Educational Tool ==

The GENESIS project has a particular commitment to the use of simulation technology in education.  GENESIS tutorials have been used for education in neuroscience and computational neuroscience in more than 50 universities around the world.  [http://www.genesis-sim.org/GENESIS/bog/bog.html "The Book of GENESIS"] (Bower and Beeman, 1998) provides an introduction both to GENESIS and to its use in education and modeling, and is now available for free from the GENESIS web site. Several GENESIS-based tutorials are available at the GENESIS website, and several others have
recently been published in association with the new on-line journal, Brains, Minds, and Media 
(http://www.brains-minds-media.org).

Over the last 19 years, the GENESIS project has witnessed and contributed to a major growth in the use of realistic modeling in computational biology.  During this time, GENESIS use has grown until it is now one of the two most widely used modeling systems for realistic models (NEURON being the other).