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- Received February 23, 2011
- Revision received April 11, 2011
- Accepted April 19, 2011
- First published June 15, 2011.
- Version of record published June 15, 2011.
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- Received February 23, 2011.
- Revision received April 11, 2011.
- Accepted April 19, 2011.
Editor's Note: Toolboxes are intended to describe and evaluate methods that are becoming widely relevant to the neuroscience community or to provide a critical analysis of established techniques. For more information, see http://www.jneurosci.org/misc/ifa_minireviews.dtl.
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (Grant NS051177 to D.K., Grant FNS054393A to D.N.H.) and the US-Israeli Binational Science Foundation (Grant 2007121). We thank the two reviewers for insightful comments, Ehud Ahissar, Elad Assa, John Curtis, Michale Fee, Kenneth Harris, Stephen Lisberger, and Jeffrey Moore for useful discussions, Gyorgy Buzsáki and Darrel Henze for supplying data for Figure 1A, and E. J. Chichilnisky, Vicky Lam, Jill Leutgeb, and Emily Mankin for supplying test data for analysis during the development of our sorting criteria. The material in this article has been presented as part of the NIH-sponsored school on “Neuroinformatics” held at the Marine Biological Laboratories. We apologize to all engineers and scientists whose work could not be cited as a consequence of space constraints.
- Correspondence should be addressed to David Kleinfeld, University of California 0374, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0374. dk{at}physics.ucsd.edu