PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Quentin Geissmann
AU  - Luis Garcia Rodriguez
AU  - Esteban J Beckwith
AU  - Alice S French
AU  - Arian R Jamasb
AU  - Giorgio F Gilestro
TI  - Ethoscopes: an open platform for high-throughput <em>ethomics</em>
AID  - 10.1101/113647
DP  - 2017 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 113647
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/03/24/113647.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/03/24/113647.full
AB  - We present ethoscopes, machines for high-throughput ethomics in Drosophila and other small animals. Ethoscopes provide four unique features: they provide a software and hardware solution that is reproducible, scalable and open-source; they perform not just real-time tracking, but faithful real-time profiling of behaviour using a supervised machine learning algorithm; they can stimulate flies in a feedback-loop mode; they are highly customisable and open source.Authors’ contributions QG, LGR and GFG designed the platform; QG and LGR wrote the software; QG and EJB performed the experiments; ARJ contributed the optomotor module; ASF contributed the AGO module; all authors contributed the manuscript.Competing interests The authors declare that no competing interests exist.