Caltech researchers train computers to analyse fruit-fly behaviour

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have trained computers to automatically analyse aggression and courtship in fruit flies, opening the way for researchers to perform large-scale, high-throughput screens for genes that control these innate behaviours. The program allows computers to examine half an hour of video footage of pairs of interacting flies in what is almost real time; characterising the behaviour of a new line of flies 'by hand' might take a biologist more than 100 hours...

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