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In such a context, the access to existing neural models and data outstandingly facilitates the work of computational neuroscientists and fosters its novelty, as the scientific community grows wider and neural models progressively increase in type, size, and number. Nonetheless, even when accessibility is guaranteed, data and models are rarely reused since it is difficult to retrieve, extract and\/or understand relevant information and scientists are often required to download and modify individual files, perform neural data analysis, optimize model parameters, and run simulations, on their own and with their own resources. While focusing on the construction of biophysically and morphologically accurate models of hippocampal cells, we have created an online resource, the Build section of the Hippocampus Hub -a scientific portal for research on the hippocampus- that gathers data and models from different online open repositories and allows their collection as the first step of a single cell model building workflow. Interoperability of tools and data is the key feature of the work we are presenting. Through a simple click-and-collect procedure, like filling the shopping cart of an online store, researchers can intuitively select the files of interest (i.e., electrophysiological recordings, neural morphology, and model components), and get started with the construction of a data-driven hippocampal neuron model. Such a workflow importantly includes a model optimization process, which leverages high performance computing resources transparently granted to the users, and a framework for running simulations of the optimized model, both available through the EBRAINS Hodgkin-Huxley Neuron Builder online tool.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fninf.2023.1271059","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,1]],"date-time":"2023-11-01T17:35:02Z","timestamp":1698860102000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Online interoperable resources for building hippocampal neuron models via the Hippocampus Hub"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Luca Leonardo","family":"Bologna","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Antonino","family":"Tocco","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Roberto","family":"Smiriglia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Armando","family":"Romani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Felix","family":"Sch\u00fcrmann","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Michele","family":"Migliore","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"6","DOI":"10.1038\/sdata.2018.6","article-title":"An open repository for single-cell reconstructions of the brain Forest","volume":"5","author":"Akram","year":"2018","journal-title":"Scientific Data"},{"key":"ref2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"574","DOI":"10.1016\/j.neuron.2016.10.046","article-title":"The human brain project: creating a European research infrastructure to decode the human brain","volume":"92","author":"Amunts","year":"2016","journal-title":"Neuron"},{"key":"ref3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"101","DOI":"10.1007\/s12021-022-09598-z","article-title":"EBRAINS live papers \u2013 interactive resource sheets for computational studies in neuroscience","volume":"21","author":"Appukuttan","year":"2022","journal-title":"Neuroinformatics"},{"key":"ref4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"557","DOI":"10.1038\/nrn2402","article-title":"Petilla terminology: nomenclature of features of GABAergic interneurons of the cerebral cortex","volume":"9","author":"Ascoli","year":"2008","journal-title":"Nat. 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