A new ImageJ plug-in "actogramJ" for chronobiological analyses

Benjamin Schmid; Charlotte Helfrich-Förster; Taishi Yoshii

doi:10.1177/0748730411414264

A new ImageJ plug-in "actogramJ" for chronobiological analyses

Benjamin Schmid, Charlotte Helfrich-Förster, Taishi Yoshii

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Abstract

While the rapid development of personal computers and high-throughput recording systems for circadian rhythms allow chronobiologists to produce huge amounts of data, the software to analyze them often lags behind. Here, we announce newly developed chronobiology software that is easy to use, compatible with many different systems, and freely available. Our system can perform the most frequently used analyses: actogram drawing, periodogram analysis, and waveform analysis. The software is distributed as a pure Java plug-in for ImageJ and so works on the 3 main operating systems: Linux, Macintosh, and Windows. We believe that this free software raises the speed of data analyses and makes studying chronobiology accessible to newcomers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	464-467
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of biological rhythms
Volume	26
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0748730411414264
Publication status	Published - Oct 1 2011

Keywords

ImageJ
Lomb-Scargle periodogram
actogram
chronobiological data
circadian rhythm
free software
Ξ2 periodogram

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Physiology
Physiology (medical)

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