Is there a "restore to initiation defaults" command?

[Ohad.Dan]

I have designed a few experimental designs, each exported to its own session (*.ses) file.
I am now writing some code which iterates over the scenarios and save some parameters of the current simulation.

An example for such scenarios are : (a) Load morphology 1 and inject current at dend[200] for 10ms. (b) Load Morphology 2 and inject current at soma[0] for 1 ms.
The iteration is performed as I want to check for each scenario the maximum voltage change (in each of the scenarios) at axon[4].

As each scenario is independent and stands on its own (not incremental) I am wondering if there is a simple command that deletes all existing variables\morphologies\mechanisms, closes all opened windows and practically restores the system to the state of just invoking the GUI.

This will make my implementation very easy :
Load session1 // In which the right parameters for the experiment are defined
print axon[4].v
restoredefualts()
Load session2
print axon[4].v

So, does this kind of command really exist?

Thanks.

[ted]

No, you have to take care of that yourself. Here's a description of how to do it.

In broad terms, you have a set of experimental protocols and a set of model cells. Each protocol involves its own set of instrumentation (signal sources, maybe vectors for recording results, analysis code). At the end of a given protocol on a particular model cell, you want to discard the model cell and perhaps also the instrumentation. Of course, there must also be some supervisory code that controls the whole process and takes care of anything that is generic across all protocols and cell classes.

Wrap each cell in a template so it defines a class, and give each class a unique name. If each protocol involves different kinds of instrumentation, do the same for each protocol. Then for each combination of cell class and protocol, you can

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for each cell class to be tested
  for each protocol to be applied
    create an instance of the cell class
    create an instance of the protocol class
    using a method internal to the protocol class, attach the protocol's instrumentation to the cell instance
    run a simulation
    using a method internal to the protocol class, analyze the results and print them or save them to a file
    discard the protocol class instance and the cell class instance