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behavioral syntax analysis based on the paper of Andre Brown
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levy flight search test for off-food environment #35

Closed ghost closed 7 years ago

ghost commented 8 years ago

research suggests that C. Elegans uses Levy flights or Brownian walks in order to search for food: http://www.genomics.princeton.edu/ryulab/

related: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v381/n6581/abs/381413a0.html

more: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/asset?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0145870.PDF

I can probably design a statistical test that's reasonably good at detecting whether a worm is off food or in the two other environments(on food, chemotaxis) based on this model of foraging behavior.

ghost commented 8 years ago

started working on this here: https://github.com/openworm/behavioral_syntax/blob/master/models/global_behavior/l%C3%A9vy_flights.py