000901916 001__ 901916 000901916 005__ 20240313094935.0 000901916 037__ $$aFZJ-2021-03903 000901916 088__ $$2arXiv$$a2110.02883 000901916 1001_ $$0P:(DE-Juel1)162130$$aSenk, Johanna$$b0$$eCorresponding author 000901916 245__ $$aConnectivity Concepts in Neuronal Network Modeling 000901916 260__ $$c2021 000901916 3367_ $$0PUB:(DE-HGF)25$$2PUB:(DE-HGF)$$aPreprint$$bpreprint$$mpreprint$$s1636350882_21912 000901916 3367_ $$2ORCID$$aWORKING_PAPER 000901916 3367_ $$028$$2EndNote$$aElectronic Article 000901916 3367_ $$2DRIVER$$apreprint 000901916 3367_ $$2BibTeX$$aARTICLE 000901916 3367_ $$2DataCite$$aOutput Types/Working Paper 000901916 520__ $$aSustainable research on computational models of neuronal networks requires published models to be understandable, reproducible, and extendable. Missing details or ambiguities about mathematical concepts and assumptions, algorithmic implementations, or parameterizations hinder progress. Such flaws are unfortunately frequent and one reason is a lack of readily applicable standards and tools for model description. Our work aims to advance complete and concise descriptions of network connectivity but also to guide the implementation of connection routines in simulation software and neuromorphic hardware systems. We first review models made available by the computational neuroscience community in the repositories ModelDB and Open Source Brain, and investigate the corresponding connectivity structures and their descriptions in both manuscript and code. The review comprises the connectivity of networks with diverse levels of neuroanatomical detail and exposes how connectivity is abstracted in existing description languages and simulator interfaces. We find that a substantial proportion of the published descriptions of connectivity is ambiguous. Based on this review, we derive a set of connectivity concepts for deterministically and probabilistically connected networks and also address networks embedded in metric space. Beside these mathematical and textual guidelines, we propose a unified graphical notation for network diagrams to facilitate an intuitive understanding of network properties. Examples of representative network models demonstrate the practical use of the ideas. 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