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WormScan: a technique for high-throughput phenotypic analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Mathew Mark D, Mathew Neal D, Ebert Paul R
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BACKGROUND: There are four main phenotypes that are assessed in whole organism studies of Caenorhabditis elegans; mortality, movement, fecundity and size. Procedures have been developed that focus on the digital analysis of some, but not all of these phenotypes and may be limited by expense and limited throughput. We have developed WormScan, an automated image acquisition system that allows quantitative analysis...
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