Description: ModECI (Model Exchange and Convergence Initiative) is a multi-investigator collaboration that aims to develop a standardized format for exchanging computational models across diverse software platforms and domains of scientific research and technology development, with a particular focus on neuroscience, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
Supported by NSF Convergence Accelerator
ModECI will provide a standardized Model Description Format (MDF) that can be used to exchange models between different software modeling environments and scientific domains and will be presented as an exchange standard, not a programming language. ONNX and NeuroML will provide guidance for the scope of MDF, and will be potential input/output formats. Such an MDF would have numerous benefits, both scientific and technological, including:
The purpose of the MDF is to provide a standard