The Klusters Handbook

Lynn Hazan

Michaël Zugaro

Revision 1.6.2 (07/09/2007)

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Klusters is a powerful and easy-to-use application designed to help neurophysiologists sort action potentials recorded from multiple neurons on groups of electrodes (e.g., tetrodes or multisite silicon probes).

Klusters is developped by Lynn Hazan in G. Buzsáki's lab (CMBN, Rutgers Newark, USA). If you use Klusters for your analyses, please be kind enough to cite it in the Materials and Methods section of your publications as:

Cluster cutting was performed using Klusters (Lynn Hazan, Buzsáki lab, Rutgers, Newark NJ).


Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Using Klusters
Starting a New Session
Views and Displays
Cluster View, Waveform View, Correlation View
The Cluster View
The Waveform View
The Correlation View
Trace View
Browsing Wide-Band Data
Browsing Unit Activity
Adjusting Channel Amplitudes
Labels
Setting the Start Time from a Cluster View
Discarding Noise and Artefacts
Grouping and Reshaping Clusters
Grouping Assistant
Automatic Reclustering
Cluster Information
Saving the Cluster File
Using Klusters over a Slow Network Connection
Printing and Exporting
Printing
Exporting
3. Settings
4. File Formats
Data Files
The Cluster File
The Feature File
The Spike File
Parameter Files
The Parameter File
Obsolete Parameter Files
5. Menu Entries
The File Menu
The Edit Menu
The Actions Menu
The Tools Menu
The Waveforms Menu
The Correlations Menu
The Traces Menu
The Displays Menu
The Settings Menu
The Help Menu
6. Credits and License
A. Installation
How to obtain Klusters
Requirements
Compilation and Installation