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+The Brian code for the paper:
+
+Tan AY, Andoni S, Priebe NJ (2013) A spontaneous state of weakly correlated synaptic excitation and inhibition in visual cortex. *Neuroscience* 247:364-75
+
+is supplied in this archive. Brian is freely available from [http://briansimulator.org](http://briansimulator.org)
+
+After installing Brian run with a command like  
+python TanAndoniPriebe2013_BrianCode.py
+
+Alternatively, the code can be easily run in Spyder, a user-friendly interface for Python.
+
+Spyder is freely available from [http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/](http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/)
+
+After installing Brian and Spyder run by opening the code in Spyder,  
+then press the F5 key.
+
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-The Brian code for the paper:
-
-Tan AY, Andoni S, Priebe NJ (2013) A spontaneous state of weakly
-correlated synaptic excitation and inhibition in visual
-cortex. Neuroscience 247:364-75
-
-is supplied in this archive.  Brian is freely available from
-http://briansimulator.org
-
-After installing Brian run with a command like
-python TanAndoniPriebe2013_BrianCode.py
-
-Alternatively, the code can be easily run in Spyder, a user-friendly
-interface for Python.
-
-Spyder is freely available from http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/
-
-After installing Brian and Spyder run by opening the code in Spyder,
-then press the F5 key.