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+# Project title: Benchmarks of the sortingcomponents
+
+### Key Investigators
+
+* Pierre Yger
+* Samuel Garcia
+
+## Project Description
+
+The sortingcomponents can now implement several key steps of the spike sorting pipelines in a modular and efficient manner. However, while the goal is to be able to properly benchmark all these steps, the benchmarks are not all finished and/or can be enhanced
+
+### Background
+
+The goal of the project is to brainstorm on the Benchmarks and write some that are currently missing (PeakSelection, MetaMerging)
+
+
+### Approach and Plan
+
+Fill in with approach and project plan
+
+ * [ ] Write Benchmarks for Merging and PeakSelection
+ * [ ] Think about the key properties/values that should be targeted in benchmarks
+ * [ ] Harmonize the plots among Benchmarks to factorize code and ease the reports
+
+### Progress
+
+Fill in with tentative milestones (or leave blacnk for later):
+
+ * [ ] Milestone 1
+ * [ ] Milestone 2
+ * [ ] Make PR to SpikeInterface
+
+### Next Steps (optional)
+
+Fill in with next steps
+
+## References
+
+[^1]: My awesome paper
+
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+Add your code here