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delosh653 / ECHO

An application to find and visualize circadian rhythms in time course data using extended harmonic oscillators.
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ECHO's efficiency in detecting "sawtooth" and non-symmetrical rhythms compared to RAIN #2

Closed JenW1984 closed 3 years ago

JenW1984 commented 3 years ago

I'm looking at the RAIN paper (Thaben and Westermark, 2014) and it is saying that it is good at detecting sawtooth shaped rhythms and non-symmetric wave forms. From their paper, they mention "the case of an initial increase and a subsequent decrease". The paper also mentions a rhythms with a "steep rise and slow decay or vice versa". I have yet to try it on my data and compare to ECHO, but it seems to me that ECHO would also be able to detect these rhythms. Are you familiar with RAIN's methodology and if so what are your thoughts on how efficient ECHO would be in detecting these types of rhythms.

delosh653 commented 3 years ago

Hi JenW1984! While ECHO hasn't been explicitly tested against sawtooth-shaped rhythms, I would expect that ECHO would do reasonably well in detecting them -- it's pretty robust, even if the rhythm isn't similar to a cosine wave.

Since this isn't really an issue, I'm going to close it, but if you have any more thoughts/questions on this subject, please use the contact information in the README for a more prompt response.