Authors: Christophe Pouzat and Samuel Garcia

The documentation is here: http://tridesclous.readthedocs.io/

tris des clous is a very dishonest translation of spike sorting to French.

Pronouce it [tree day clue] in English.

The primary goal of tridesclous was to provide a toolkit to teach good practices in spike sorting techniques. Trideslcous is now mature and can be used to sort spike on tetrode up to neuropixel probe recorded dataset.

Tridesclous is both:

• an offline spike sorter tools able to read many file format
• a realtime spike sorting combined with pyacq

• template matching based method
• several alternative methods at several processing steps of the chain
• Qt GUI for interactive exploration
• a simple python API to use in a notebook or to build a custom pipeline
• support for many data formats (Raw, Blackrock, Neuralynx, Plexon, Spike2, Tdt, OpenEphys, ...) via neo
• hardware acceleration with opencl: both GPU and multicore CPU
• smaller memory footprint
• built-in sample datasets to try on
• quite fast for tetrode datasets -- expect x30 speedup over real time on a simple laptop
• multi-platform
• open source based on a true open source stack

The forest of spike sorting tools is dense and tridesclous is a new tree. Be curious and try it.

http://tridesclous.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html

http://tridesclous.readthedocs.io/en/latest/launch.html