Table 3.
Comparing open-source spike data processing and analysis toolboxes.
| Toolbox | ISIH | PSTH | Raster | Spike | Tuning | Statistical | Unique features |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plots | sorting | curves | tools | ||||
| Brainstorm | − | − | + | + | + | + | − |
| Chronux | + | + | − | − | − | + | Locfit, MTF |
| Elephant | + | + | − | − | − | + | CV2, Fano factor, LV |
| FieldTrip | + | + | + | + | − | + | Waveform statistics |
| gramm | − | + | + | − | + | + | − |
| Spike Viewer | + | + | + | − | − | − | − |
| SPIKY | − | + | + | − | − | − | − |
CV2, measure of inter-spike variability (Holt et al., 1996); ISIH, Inter-Spike Interval Histogram; locfit, local regression and likelihood based analyses (Loader, 2006; Bokil et al., 2010); LV, measure of local variation (Shinomoto et al., 2003); MTF, MultiTaper Fourier transform for point-process data (Jarvis and Mitra, 2001; Bokil et al., 2010); PSTH, Peri-Stimulus Time Histogram.