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hctsa: A Computational Framework for Automated Time-Series Phenotyping Using Massive Feature Extraction
Phenotype measurements frequently take the form of time series, but we currently lack a systematic method for relating these complex data streams to scientifically meaningful outcomes, such as relating the movement dynamics of organisms to their genotype or measurements of brain dynamics of a patien...
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Published in: | Cell systems 2017-11, Vol.5 (5), p.527-531.e3 |
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Language: | English |
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Summary: | Phenotype measurements frequently take the form of time series, but we currently lack a systematic method for relating these complex data streams to scientifically meaningful outcomes, such as relating the movement dynamics of organisms to their genotype or measurements of brain dynamics of a patient to their disease diagnosis. Previous work addressed this problem by comparing implementations of thousands of diverse scientific time-series analysis methods in an approach termed highly comparative time-series analysis. Here, we introduce hctsa, a software tool for applying this methodological approach to data. hctsa includes an architecture for computing over 7,700 time-series features and a suite of analysis and visualization algorithms to automatically select useful and interpretable time-series features for a given application. Using exemplar applications to high-throughput phenotyping experiments, we show how hctsa allows researchers to leverage decades of time-series research to quantify and understand informative structure in time-series data.
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•Fully documented and comprehensively tested software framework, hctsa•Automatically identify interpretable quantitative phenotypes from time-series data•Uses over 7,700 features from scientific time-series analysis literature•Provides biological understanding from C. elegans and Drosophila movement data
A new software tool, hctsa, uses massive feature extraction to automatically identify informative and interpretable quantitative phenotypes from time-series data. |
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ISSN: | 2405-4712 2405-4720 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.cels.2017.10.001 |