Article
A database of Caenorhabditis elegans behavioral phenotypes.
Nature methods - 1 Sept 2013
Yemini Eviatar, Jucikas Tadas, Grundy Laura J, Brown André E X, Schafer William R
Abstract excerpt
Using low-cost automated tracking microscopes, we have generated a behavioral database for 305 Caenorhabditis elegans strains, including 76 mutants with no previously described phenotype. The growing database currently consists of 9,203 short videos segmented to extract behavior and morphology features, and these videos and feature data are available online for further analysis. The database also includes summary...
Topics
- Algorithms
- Animals
- Behavior, Animal
- Caenorhabditis elegans
- Databases, Factual
- Mutation
- Phenotype
- Reproducibility of Results
- Video Recording