Automated quantitative analysis of mouse behavior will play a significant role in comprehensive phenotypic analyses both on the small scale of detailed characterization of individual gene mutants

A U T O M AT E D H O M E-C A G E B E H AV I O R A L PH E N O T YPIN G O F M I C E Hueihan Jhuang, Estibaliz Garrote, Xinlin Yu, Vinita Khilnani, Tomaso Poggio, Andrew D. Steele* and Thomas Serre * Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, McGovern Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Current address: Department of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences, Brown Institute for Brain Sciences, Brown University Broad Fellows in Brain Circuitry Program, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology

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