With remote, home, and hybrid work becoming increasingly prevalent, the demand for streamlined and secure data sharing remains paramount across various sectors, including academia, clinical research, Biopharma, and CROs. BehaviorCloud emerges as an indispensable solution, simplifying good laboratory practices by facilitating efficient data collection, analysis, and sharing on a unified cloud platform. Unlike conventional methods restricted to single devices or systems, BehaviorCloud enables remote access to experiments and data, enhancing research productivity and efficiency.
Whether leveraging existing data or conducting real-time collection via live streaming, BehaviorCloud offers high-throughput capabilities to harness multiple data streams simultaneously. Utilizing a secure cloud-based system, researchers can seamlessly collect, collaborate on, and share data from any location without compromising security. Moreover, BehaviorCloud’s compatibility with Android and iOS mobile devices allows for flexible usage across desktops, tablets, and smartphones, bolstering accessibility and convenience. Leveraging cloud data streaming and storage capabilities, the platform empowers researchers to maximize data utilization and connectivity.
In addition to live experiment streaming, BehaviorCloud facilitates automated tracking of animal and insect behaviors, offering invaluable insights for tasks utilizing various apparatus such as the Elevated Plus Maze, Open-Field Test, Morris Water Maze, and Y-Maze. The platform’s robust feature set includes automated data generation for metrics like average velocity, visit counts, and latencies, complemented by an augmented manual scoring capability for complex behaviors such as nesting and walking. With minimal equipment requirements, researchers can swiftly commence using BehaviorCloud from either home or laboratory settings.
Trusted by prestigious academic institutions like Harvard University, Stanford University, Okayama University, and Ohio State University, as well as renowned research entities such as NASA, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, SRI International, and Zafgen, BehaviorCloud stands as a proven solution for managing data across diverse research domains.
Sign up for BehaviorCloud to establish a secure cloud-based account tailored to your research requirements, whether you’re working remotely or on-site. BehaviorCloud seamlessly operates across multiple devices, including desktops, mobile phones, and tablets. To initiate BehaviorCloud’s live streaming functionality within your facility, simply activate your BehaviorCloud camera and link it to your account via either an ethernet connection or your wireless network. Once configured, this camera, equipped with 8GB of storage capacity, stands ready to commence video capture of short- or long-term behavioral tasks autonomously. All recorded footage is promptly streamed directly to your BehaviorCloud account.
Notably, the BehaviorCloud camera features night vision capabilities, ensuring compatibility with standard IR illuminators for experiments conducted in low-light or no-light conditions. Available for individual purchase, as part of a camera equipment bundle, or included within the BehaviorCloud starter package, the BehaviorCloud camera offers versatility and adaptability to suit diverse research needs.
The BehaviorCloud system is compatible with most rodent behavioral mazes and apparatuses including
To optimize your experience with BehaviorCloud, consider the following best practices:
BehaviorCloud empowers researchers and their teams with a unified cloud-based system tailored to their research requirements. This comprehensive platform offers ample data storage capacity, seamlessly integrated into the subscription, enabling high-throughput data collection across multiple streams while ensuring data security. Moreover, BehaviorCloud facilitates participation and collaboration from remote, on-site, and home locations, fostering easy sharing and collaboration of experimental data and records across laboratories via internet-enabled devices such as mobile phones, desktops, and tablets.
Setting up BehaviorCloud is a breeze, with the platform ready for use within minutes. Its user-friendly interface boasts intuitiveness and minimal learning curve, allowing seamless integration with all internet-enabled devices in the laboratory for remote control. Compatible with a wide range of camera devices, BehaviorCloud’s behavior tracking software enables tracking of behaviors in both live and pre-recorded videos, with options for manual data analysis as well.
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Use your mobile device to quickly start running live, video-based behavioral tracking or analyze existing videos you’ve captured
BehaviorCloud offers automated video analysis capabilities, delivering accurate positional data for maze and cage-based experiments. Beyond basic tracking, the software generates a range of downstream variables including distance traveled, average velocity, zone entries, and additional metrics.
BehaviorCloud automates video analysis to provide dependable zone data, enabling precise scoring of geographical locations within MazeEngineers mazes.
A prompt to segment the trial into time bins will appear before generation of analyzed data. Values can be entered in seconds, or the field can be left black.
Activity Analysis | Ā | Ā |
totaltime | : | Total test time in seconds |
Ā ambulatorytime | Ā : | Ā Total time the subject was moving, in seconds |
Ā distancetraveled | Ā : | Ā Total distance traveled, in cm |
Ā averagevelocity | Ā : | Ā Average velocity, in cm/s |
Ā starttime | Ā : | Ā The start time of trial as an ISO8601 formatted date and time stamp |
Ā restingtime | Ā : | Ā Total time the subject was resting, in seconds |
Ā endtime | Ā : | Ā End time of trial as an ISO8601 formatted date and time stamp |
Ā subject | Ā : | Ā Subject ID as provided by the user |
Raw Position Data | Ā | Ā |
time | : | An ISO8601 formatted date and time stamp |
Ā xcoordinate | Ā : | Ā X coordinate of the subject relative to the upper left corner of the video, in microns |
Ā ycoordinate | Ā : | Ā Y coordinate of the subject relative to the upper left corner of the video, in microns |
Zoned Sequence Analysis | Ā | Ā |
time | : | An ISO8601 formatted date and time stamp |
Ā zone | Ā : | Ā Zone name as provided by the user |
Ā subject | Ā : | Ā Subject ID as provided by the user |
Spontaneous Alternation | Ā | Ā |
Ā spontaneousalternation | Ā : | Ā Percent alternation (number of triads / (number of arm entries ā 2)) x 100 |
Ā starttime | Ā : | Ā The start time of trial as an ISO8601 formatted date and time stamp |
Ā endtime | Ā : | Ā End time of trial as an ISO8601 formatted date and time stamp |
Ā subject | Ā : | Ā Subject ID as provided by the user |
Zoned Activity Analysis Ā | Ā | Ā |
| totaltime | : | Total time spent in the zone, in seconds |
Ā latency | Ā : | Ā Amount of time to first enter a zone, in seconds |
Ā ambulatorytime Ā | Ā : | Ā Total time the subject was moving within the zone, in seconds |
Ā zonename Ā | Ā : | Ā Name of the zone as provided by the user |
Ā distancetraveled | Ā : | Ā Total distance traveled within the zone, in cm |
Ā averagevelocity | Ā : | Ā Average velocity within a zone, in cm/s |
Ā starttime Ā | Ā : | Ā The start time of trial as an ISO8601 formatted date and time stamp |
Ā zoneentries | Ā : | Ā Number of entries into the zone |
Ā restingtime Ā | Ā : | Ā Total time the subject was resting within a zone, in seconds |
Ā endtime | Ā : | Ā End time of trial as an ISO8601 formatted date and time stamp |
Ā subject | Ā : | Ā Subject ID as provided by the user |
Manual scoring in the BehaviorCloud can be performed on live videos as well as uploaded videos. For performing manual scoring on live videos
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For manual scoring using uploaded videos, the procedure will be the same as the Uploading Video Files for Video Tracking with the exception, instead of selecting theĀ Automated Video TrackingĀ option, selectĀ Manual ScoringĀ option.
Following the video set-up follow the following steps to score the behaviors manually,
For behaviors and social interactions that pose challenges for automated quantification, BehaviorCloud offers tools to effortlessly define, observe, and score custom behaviors. This feature ensures researchers can apply the same robust analysis capabilities available for automated tracking to manual observations.
Sharing means caring, and BehaviorCloud allows multiple collaborators in your experimentation. No more thumb drives or email attachments
| BehaviorCloud Video Bundle | 1-year Subscription, 2 years Subscription, 3+ years |
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| Behaviour Cloud Subscription | 1-year Basic Subscription, Commercial/Custom Lab Pricing, Multi-Year Basic Subscription |
| Behaviour Cloud | BehaviorCloud Subscription, BehaviorCloud Video Bundle |
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