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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2024

LarvaTagger: manual and automatic tagging of Drosophila larval behaviour.

François Laurent, Alexandre Blanc, Lilly May, Lautaro Gándara, Benjamin T Cocanougher, Benjamin M W Jones, Peter Hague, Chloé Barré, Christian L Vestergaard, Justin Crocker and 3 more

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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François LaurentInstitut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR 3571, Decision and Bayesian Computation, 75015 Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0002-1615-6400
Alexandre BlancInstitut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR 3571, Decision and Bayesian Computation, 75015 Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0001-9148-5223
Lilly MayInstitut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR 3571, Decision and Bayesian Computation, 75015 Paris, France.ORCID 0009-0004-4337-2338
Lautaro GándaraEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, Developmental Biology, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3695-6592
Benjamin T CocanougherDepartment of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-0648-554X
Benjamin M W JonesDepartment of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom.
Peter HagueDepartment of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-3603-4272
Chloé BarréInstitut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR 3571, Decision and Bayesian Computation, 75015 Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0002-4551-8984
Christian L VestergaardInstitut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR 3571, Decision and Bayesian Computation, 75015 Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0001-6485-3158
Justin CrockerEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, Developmental Biology, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5113-0476
Marta ZlaticDepartment of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-3149-2250
Tihana JovanicInstitut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 9197, 91400 Saclay, France.ORCID 0000-0002-0525-8620
Jean-Baptiste MassonInstitut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR 3571, Decision and Bayesian Computation, 75015 Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0002-5484-9056

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Agence Nationale de la Recherche ANR-17-CE23-0016
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationAs more behavioural assays are carried out in large-scale experiments on Drosophila larvae, the definitions of the archetypal actions of a larva are regularly refined. In addition, video recording and tracking technologies constantly evolve. Consequently, automatic tagging tools for Drosophila larval behaviour must be retrained to learn new representations from new data. However, existing tools cannot transfer knowledge from large amounts of previously accumulated data. We introduce LarvaTagger, a piece of software that combines a pre-trained deep neural network, providing a continuous latent representation of larva actions for stereotypical behaviour identification, with a graphical user interface to manually tag the behaviour and train new automatic taggers with the updated ground truth.

resultsWe reproduced results from an automatic tagger with high accuracy, and we demonstrated that pre-training on large databases accelerates the training of a new tagger, achieving similar prediction accuracy using less data. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: All the code is free and open source. Docker images are also available. See gitlab.pasteur.fr/nyx/LarvaTagger.jl.

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Behavior, AnimalDrosophilaLarvaSoftwareAnimalsNeural Networks, ComputerVideo Recording

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PMCPMC11262801

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