Implements an integrated template matching framework for detecting and clustering spikes from multi-channel electrophysiological recordings. Very fast when a GPU is available, but can also run on the CPU side. Described in this paper http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/06/30/061481.
See also the separate GUI for manually vetting results https://github.com/kwikteam/phy.
Detailed instructions for interpreting results https://github.com/kwikteam/phy-contrib/blob/master/docs/template-gui.md.
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Marius Pachitariu (2026). Kilosort (https://github.com/cortex-lab/KiloSort), GitHub. Retrieved .
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