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Nature Methods 6, 413 - 414 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nmeth0609-413

The ethomics era?

Michael Reiser1

  1. Michael Reiser is at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, Virginia, USA. e-mail: reiserm@janelia.hhmi.org


Applying modern machine-vision techniques to the study of animal behavior, two groups developed systems that quantify many aspects of the complex social behaviors of Drosophila melanogaster. These software tools will enable high-throughput screens that seek to uncover the cellular and molecular underpinnings of behavior.

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