DeepEthoProfile—Rapid Behavior Recognition in Long-Term Recorded Home-Cage Mice

This work was supported by the BMBF program “Alternative methods for animal experiments” FKZ 031A418 and FKZ 161L0228, as well as by the DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) through SFB 1315, project-ID 327654276, and EXC 257 NeuroCure, project-ID 441 39052203. We thank Prisila Charles, Rebecca Saager, and Cedric Rauch for their dedicated efforts in working with the animals and carrying out the manual annotations; Rupert Overall and Janine Musolf for their thorough evaluation of a pre-release version of our software, which involved data from multiple sets of 20 mice across two EthoProfiler racks operated concurrently; Peter Spende, Francesco Bagorda, and Katja Frei for their significant contributions in the development of the acquisition hardware; and Clemens Winter and Rupert Overall for proof-reading and providing feed-back to the initial version of the manuscript. The article processing charge was funded by the Open Access Publication Fund of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

PhenoSys GmbH, which manufactures and distributes the 10-cage EthoProfiler data acquisition system, counts Y.W. among its equity owners.