Table 1. Currently available file formats in SpikeInterface and if they are writable.

*The Phy writing method is implemented in spiketoolkit as the export_to_phy function (all other writing methods are implemented in spikeextractors).

Raw formats	Writable	Reference	Sorted formats	Writable	Reference
Klusta	Yes	Rossant et al., 2016	Klusta	Yes	Rossant et al., 2016
Mountainsort	Yes	Jun et al., 2017a	Mountainsort	Yes	Jun et al., 2017a
Phy*	Yes	Rossant and Harris, 2013	Phy*	Yes	Rossant and Harris, 2013
Kilosort/Kilosort2	No	Pachitariu et al., 2016; Rossant et al., 2014	Kilosort/Kilosort2	No	Pachitariu et al., 2016; Rossant et al., 2014
SpyKING Circus	No	Yger et al., 2018	SpyKING Circus	Yes	Yger et al., 2018
Exdir	Yes	Dragly et al., 2018	Exdir	Yes	Dragly et al., 2018
MEArec	Yes	Buccino and Einevoll, 2020	MEArec	Yes	Buccino and Einevoll, 2020
Open Ephys	No	Siegle et al., 2017	Open Ephys	No	Siegle et al., 2017
Neurodata Without Borders	Yes	Teeters et al., 2015	Neurodata Without Borders	Yes	Teeters et al., 2015
NIX	Yes	NIX, 2015	NIX	Yes	NIX, 2015
Plexon	No	Plexon, 2020	Plexon	No	Plexon, 2020
Neuralynx	No	Neuralynx, 2020	Neuralynx	No	Neuralynx, 2020
SHYBRID	Yes	Wouters et al., 2020	SHYBRID	Yes	Wouters et al., 2020
Neuroscope	Yes	Hazan et al., 2006	Neuroscope	Yes	Hazan et al., 2006
SpikeGLX	No	Karsh, 2016	HerdingSpikes2	Yes	Hilgen et al., 2017
Intan	No	Intan, 2010	JRCLUST	No	Jun et al., 2017b
MCS H5	No	MCS, 2020	Wave clus	No	Chaure et al., 2018
Biocam HDF5	Yes	Biocam, 2018	Tridesclous	No	Garcia and Pouzat, 2015
MEA1k	Yes	MEA1k, 2020	NPZ (numpy zip)	Yes	N/A
MaxOne	No	MaxWell, 2020
Binary	Yes	N/A