ShinyR-DAM: a program analyzing Drosophila activity, sleep and circadian rhythms.

Published in: Communications biology (2018)

We developed a web application ShinyR-DAM for analyzing Drosophila locomotor activity, sleep, and circadian rhythms recorded by the Drosophila Activity Monitor (DAM) system (TriKinetics, Waltham, MA). Comparing with the existing programs for DAM data analysis, ShinyR-DAM greatly decreases the complexity and time required to analyze the data, producing informative and customizable plots, summary tables, and data files for statistical analysis. Our program has an intuitive graphical user interface that enables novice users to quickly perform complex analyses.

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data analysis
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