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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Methods. 2018 Sep;15(9):645–646. doi: 10.1038/s41592-018-0112-1

Figure 1. Schematic of searchable database and Tierpsy analysis pipeline.

Figure 1

(a) The OpenWorm Movement Database provides a web interface for searching by genotype, strain, and/or other discrete values, and interactive histograms with sliders to filter results based on feature values. The interface points to data stored on Zenodo. The video and feature data can be further analyzed or combined with data collected using other worm trackers through the Worm tracker Commons Object Notation (WCON), a human and machine readable JSON format. (b) Tierpsy (short for Tierpsychology, the German word for ethology) segments and tracks worms, extracting the outline and skeleton of each animal then determining the head-tail orientation. These data are saved in WCON. The Open Worm Analysis Toolbox is then used to extract behavioral features.