TY - JOUR T1 - "Smart Tanks": An Intelligent High-Throughput Intervention Testing Platform in <em>Daphnia</em> JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/2021.05.30.446339 SP - 2021.05.30.446339 AU - Yongmin Cho AU - Rachael A. Jonas-Closs AU - Lev Y. Yampolsky AU - Marc W. Kirschner AU - Leonid Peshkin Y1 - 2021/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/05/30/2021.05.30.446339.abstract N2 - We present a novel platform for testing the effect of interventions on life- and health-span of a short-lived semi transparent freshwater organism, sensitive to drugs with complex behavior and physiology – the planktonic crustacean Daphnia magna. Within this platform, dozens of complex behavioural features of both routine motion and response to stimuli are continuously accurately quantified for large homogeneous cohorts via an automated phenotyping pipeline. We build predictive machine learning models calibrated using chronological age and extrapolate onto phenotypic age. We further apply the model to estimate the phenotypic age under pharmacological perturbation. Our platform provides a scalable framework for drug screening and characterization in both life-long and instant assays as illustrated using long term dose response profile of metformin and short term assay of such well-studied substances as caffeine and alcohol.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest. ER -