Communications Biology (Mar 2022)

Megapixel camera arrays enable high-resolution animal tracking in multiwell plates

  • Ida L. Barlow,
  • Luigi Feriani,
  • Eleni Minga,
  • Adam McDermott-Rouse,
  • Thomas James O’Brien,
  • Ziwei Liu,
  • Maximilian Hofbauer,
  • John R. Stowers,
  • Erik C. Andersen,
  • Siyu Serena Ding,
  • André E. X. Brown

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03206-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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A multiplexed machine-vision-based tracking system enables the high-content analysis of C. elegans behavior in several 96-well plates at a time and shows its utility for comparisons across multiple genotypes and upon drug treatment, tackling the bottlenecks in behavioural quantification.