Try ConductPheno on your own computer

ConductPheno follows each mouse in its home cage around the clock and shows how far it moves, when it rests and sleeps, and when it visits its food and water.

The free demo runs on Windows 10 and 11 without a camera or graphics card.

Download for Windows (28 MB)

It needs no sign-up and installs nothing.

ConductPheno's overview of a rack of 12 cages: each camera view, what each mouse is doing now, when it last drank and fed, and an alert for a mouse that has stopped drinking.

What’s in the demo

The demo opens on a simulated study of 12 mice, one per cage, in three groups: wild type, a long-period mutant line and a high-fat diet group. The mice spend the first 7 days on a 12-hour light-dark cycle and the next 7 in constant darkness, where each mouse’s free-running rhythm shows.

On day 10, one of the simulated cameras drops out for part of the day, and ConductPheno marks the gap in the data. One mouse has stopped drinking, and ConductPheno flags it. Every screen and export marks the data as simulated.

  • One cage in ConductPheno: the camera view with the food, water and nest areas, the mouse asleep in its nest, an alert that it has not drunk for 13 hours, and the day so far as colored minutes.

    One cage, minute by minute

    The camera view with its food, water and nest areas, and each minute of the day labeled by what the mouse was doing.

  • Actograms for 12 simulated mice over 14 days in three groups, each marked with activity onsets and its period, from about 23.7 hours for wild type to about 24.7 hours for the long-period mutants.

    Daily rhythms

    An actogram for every mouse, with its activity onsets and its free-running period in constant darkness.

  • Feeding and drinking through the day for three groups of simulated mice, both rising after lights off, above dot plots of time at food per day and feeding bouts per day.

    Food and water through the day

    Each group’s time in the food area and at the water spout across the 24-hour day, and its feeding bouts per day.

  • Period in constant darkness by group, with the long-period mutants about an hour longer than wild type, and a table of each group’s difference with its confidence interval and p value.

    Group comparisons

    Each measure by group, with the difference from wild type, its 95% confidence interval and a Welch's t-test.

What ConductPheno measures and flags

Every measure comes from three keypoints on each mouse: head, body and tail. ConductPheno’s tracking engine or DeepLabCut finds them in the video.

Activity
How far the body moves each minute. ConductPheno counts a new position only when the body keypoint is 0.5 cm or more from the last one it counted, so small tracking jitter adds no distance.
Sleep and rest
A mouse counts as asleep when its head and body stay within 0.5 cm of where they were for 40 seconds or more. Shorter stillness counts as rest.
Food and water visits
Time with the head in the food area or at the water spout. Food-area visits 5 seconds apart or less join into one feeding bout, and water-spout visits 3 seconds apart or less into one drinking bout.
Not seen
Seconds when the camera can’t see the mouse, kept as their own state and never counted as rest or sleep.
Period
Each mouse’s cycle length, taken from the peak of a Lomb-Scargle periodogram between 18 and 30 hours. A chi-square periodogram is shown beside the Lomb-Scargle one.
Rhythm structure
Interdaily stability, intradaily variability and relative amplitude.
Rhythm timing
The daily activity onset, and the time of peak activity from a cosinor fit.
Alerts
ConductPheno flags a mouse after 8 hours without drinking or feeding, or after 2 minutes out of view. It also flags a camera that sees its mouse for less than 90% of the day and, on light-dark days, dark-phase activity below 32% of the mouse’s own baseline for 3 hours.

What the demo needs

  • Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit

  • No internet after the download

    ConductPheno runs on your computer and keeps your data there.

Download and open the demo

  1. Download the demo

    It is a single program file.

  2. Open the file

    Windows may show "Windows protected your PC", as it does for apps it doesn't recognize yet. If it does, choose More info, then Run anyway.

  3. Start at the overview

    The overview shows day 14 of the study. Start with its alert, then open any cage.

Frequently asked questions

Can I analyze my own tracking data?

Yes, keypoint files from DeepLabCut or from ConductPheno’s tracking engine. You draw each cage’s food, water and nest areas, and the demo measures the keypoints against them. The demo does not track video itself.

Can it follow more than one mouse in a cage?

No, it follows one mouse per cage.

Does the demo expire?

No, it has no time limit.

Track your own cages

Talk to our team about running ConductPheno’s tracking engine on your cages.

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