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SynthesiseLife2020

SpikeInterface, a unified framework for spike sorting.

Alessio P Buccino, Cole L Hurwitz, Samuel Garcia, Jeremy Magland, Joshua H Siegle, Roger Hurwitz, Matthias H Hennig

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Synthesis in eLife, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 204 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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204citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

204 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  8. Detection and Removal of Hyper-synchronous Artifacts in Massively Parallel Spike Recordings.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  20. KIASORT: Knowledge-Integrated Automated Spike Sorting for Geometry-Free Neuron Tracking.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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144 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Alessio P Buccino *Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-3661-527X
Cole L Hurwitz *School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-2023-1653
Samuel GarciaCentre de Recherche en Neuroscience de Lyon, CNRS, Lyon, France.ORCID 0000-0001-6389-9779
Jeremy MaglandFlatiron Institute, New York, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-5286-4375
Joshua H SiegleAllen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7736-4844
Roger HurwitzIndependent Researcher, Portland, United States.
Matthias H HennigSchool of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-7270-5817

Funding

Wellcome Trust 214431/Z/18/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Much development has been directed toward improving the performance and automation of spike sorting. This continuous development, while essential, has contributed to an over-saturation of new, incompatible tools that hinders rigorous benchmarking and complicates reproducible analysis. To address these limitations, we developed SpikeInterface, a Python framework designed to unify preexisting spike sorting technologies into a single codebase and to facilitate straightforward comparison and adoption of different approaches. With a few lines of code, researchers can reproducibly run, compare, and benchmark most modern spike sorting algorithms; pre-process, post-process, and visualize extracellular datasets; validate, curate, and export sorting outputs; and more. In this paper, we provide an overview of SpikeInterface and, with applications to real and simulated datasets, demonstrate how it can be utilized to reduce the burden of manual curation and to more comprehensively benchmark automated spike sorters.

Indexed as

AlgorithmsModels, NeurologicalSignal Processing, Computer-AssistedSoftwareAction PotentialsHumansNeuronsextracellular recordingsmouseneuroscienceopen-source softwarepythonratreproducibilityspike sorting

Identifiers

PMID33170122
PMCPMC7704107

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