Caltech researchers train computers to analyze fruit-fly behavior

Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - 13:49 in Mathematics & Economics

PASADENA, Calif.--Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have trained computers to automatically analyze aggression and courtship in fruit flies, opening the way for researchers to perform large-scale, high-throughput screens for genes that control these innate behaviors.

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