conductance value for passive channel unused

[wvangeit]

When defining a ionChannelPassive, one has to specify a 'conductance' value. However, the mod file generated by jnml creates the following code:

BREAKPOINT {                                                                    

    rates()                                                                     
    fopen = 1 ? evaluable                                                       
    g = conductance ? evaluable                                                 
    gion = gmax * fopen                                                         

    i = gion * (v - e)                                                          

} 

So it looks like the 'conductance' parameter is not used in the equations. Only the gmax set by a channelDensity is used. This can be confusing, also because somebody might read the 'g' value from the channel and interpret it as it's true conductance.

[pgleeson]

There needs to be a general cleanup of the generated mod files soon (including making them more efficient/not creating so many public variables), and this issue will be addressed. But for now the focus is on generating correctly working files.

[borismarin]

+1 to the first phrase.

On 12 September 2014 09:37, Padraig Gleeson notifications@github.com
wrote:

There needs to be a general cleanup of the generated mod files soon
(including making them more efficient/not creating so many public
variables), and this issue will be addressed. But for now the focus is on
generating correctly working files.

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