LFPy is a Python-module for calculating extracellular potentials from multicompartment neuron models. It relies on the NEURON simulator and the Python interface to NEURON it provides.
LFPy relies on calculating compartmental membrane currents using the NEURON-simulator under the hood, and provides a set of easy-to-use Python-classes for setting up your model, and run your simulations and have simultaneous model predicitions of the extracellular potentials arising from activity of your model neuron. If you have a model working in NEURON already, it is likely that it can be adapted to work with LFPy.
LFPy was developed in the Computational Neuroscience Group, Department of Mathemathical Sciences and Technology, at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences , in collaboration with the Laboratory of Neuroinformatics, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland. The effort was supported by International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) and the e-science program of The Research Council of Norway.