Synapse

Synapse adds electrophysiology on top of the core: neural file formats, probes, spike detection, clustering, sorting, metrics and curation.

Sorters

Five sorters run on the GPU or the CPU, from the raw file to sorted units:

Sorter	For	Licence
Kilosort4	High-density probes (Neuropixels, polytrodes)	GPL-3.0
EMUsort	Motor units on high-density intramuscular arrays	GPL-3.0
MountainSort 5	Any geometry, tetrodes to dense probes	Apache-2.0
SpyKING CIRCUS 2	Dense probes	MIT or Apache-2.0, with SpikeInterface’s MIT notice
Tridesclous 2	Dense probes	MIT or Apache-2.0, with SpikeInterface’s MIT notice

Caution

These are reimplementations in progress. Until a sorter reproduces its paper’s results on the paper’s data, it isn’t a substitute for the original. Drift correction isn’t implemented yet. See Validation.

Where to go

You want to	Go to
Open neural files and describe a probe	Formats and probes
Find spikes	Detection
Sort a recording	Sorting
Sort and browse units in the app	Sorting in the app
Check and edit units	Metrics and curation
Work through examples	Course: Detection