TY - JOUR T1 - Ethoscopes: an open platform for high-throughput <em>ethomics</em> JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/113647 SP - 113647 AU - Quentin Geissmann AU - Luis Garcia Rodriguez AU - Esteban J. Beckwith AU - Alice S. French AU - Arian R. Jamasb AU - Giorgio F. Gilestro Y1 - 2017/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/04/02/113647.abstract N2 - We present ethoscopes, machines for high-throughput ethomics in Drosophila and other animals. Ethoscopes present four unique features: they provide a software and hardware solution that is reproducible and easily scalable; 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. Ethoscopes can be easily built using 3D printing technology and they rely on Raspberry Pi and Arduino to provide affordable and flexible hardware. ER -