Sleep analysis with DAM data

Step-by-step example of analysis of sleep and circadian rhythm from DAM2 data

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A Drosophila Activity Monitor

Background

Drosophila Activity Monitors (DAMs) are a wildely used tool to monitor activity of fruit flies over several days. I am assuming that, if you are reading this tutorial, you are already familiar with the system, but I will make a few point clear before we start something more hands-on:

• This tutorial is about single beam DAM2
• We work with the raw data (the data from each monitor is in one signe file, and all the monitor files are in the same folder)

Downloading tutorial data

First of all, lets get the data I put together for this tutorial.

What the data is…:

• Experiments

Unzip the data

Metadata

As we discussed in the previous sesion