TY - JOUR
T1 - A new ImageJ plug-in "actogramJ" for chronobiological analyses
AU - Schmid, Benjamin
AU - Helfrich-Förster, Charlotte
AU - Yoshii, Taishi
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank Wolfgang Engelmann, Christiane Hermann, and Irina Stahl for the comments on a previous version of the article, as well as Mark Longair for final proofreading. C.H.-F. acknowledges financial support from the European Community (the 6th Framework Project EUCLOCK no. 018741).
PY - 2011/10
Y1 - 2011/10
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - ImageJ
KW - Lomb-Scargle periodogram
KW - actogram
KW - chronobiological data
KW - circadian rhythm
KW - free software
KW - Ξ2 periodogram
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U2 - 10.1177/0748730411414264
DO - 10.1177/0748730411414264
M3 - Article
C2 - 21921300
AN - SCOPUS:80755188094
VL - 26
SP - 464
EP - 467
JO - Journal of Biological Rhythms
JF - Journal of Biological Rhythms
SN - 0748-7304
IS - 5
ER -