This directory contains both the on-line help files (*.doc) to be used with
the GENESIS "help <topic>" command, and the GENESIS Reference Manual.

The compressed "tar" format file "manual.tar.Z" contains the GENESIS
Reference Manual broken up into five postscript files, for the convenience
of those who have printers with limited memory.  To extract the manual for
printing, give the command "zcat manual.tar.Z | tar xvf -".  This will
produce the five files, manual1.ps - manual5.ps, which you may then print
on a postscript printer.  If disk space is at a premium, delete these
files after printing.

The current version of the manual has not been updated since GENESIS version
1.3.  Note that the on-line help files give more up-to-date documentation
for many commands and objects.  A brief description of new GENESIS features
is given in the file "README.changes" in the directory above this one.  We
plan to distribute a revised manual with the release of GENESIS version 2.0.

The Reference Manual is primarily a summary of the commands used by the
GENESIS Script Language Interpreter and of the main GENESIS "objects" which
are available for constructing simulations.  Part II of "The Book of GENESIS"
(to be published in early 1994 by TELOS/Springer) will provide a detailed
guide to the process of constructing simulations with GENESIS.  In the
meantime, we offer the following suggestions for getting started with
GENESIS:

1) Get a feeling for the sorts of things which can be done with GENESIS by
   running some of the educational tutorials in the Scripts directory.
   These may be used with no prior knowledge of GENESIS.

2) Work through the "Tutorial on using GENESIS" in section 3 of the Reference
   Manual.

3) Print out the file "MultiCell.doc", in the Scripts/MultiCell directory,
   and use it to understand the MultiCell demonstration simulation.

4) If you have a serious interest in neural modeling with GENESIS, we
   strongly recommend joining the GENESIS Users Group, BABEL.  The BABEL
   archives contain tutorials on GENESIS programming, new simulations,
   cell models, hints on using GENESIS, and user-contributed GENESIS objects.
