mouse nomenclature

readme.md

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 4. Proximity measure
 5. Time Spent Hiding
 
+### Nomenclature
+In all data files, each mouse pair is identified by their **strain** label (CD1, C57j or Hyb), a label indicating a specific **batch** (B1, B2, ..) followed by the **pair** nomenclature (MS_US, UN_LN, ..) and the **recording time** (T1.1, T1.2, T2.1 or T2.2). <br>
+Examples: CD1-B1-MS_US-T1.1, C57j-B4-UN_LS-T2.1, Hyb-B3-MS_US-T2.2
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+The following **pair** nomenclature has been employed: <br>
+unshaved: “UN”; low shaved: “LS”; middle shaved: “MS”; up shaved: “US”. <br>
+In addition to this, each mouse is identified by either "M1" or "M2" labels, depending on the order its label occurs in the pair nomenclature. For example, in CD1-B3-MS_US-T2.1, MS corresponds to M1 and US corresponds to M2.
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+The **recording time** refers to the recording time interval within the early (T1) or the late (T2) experimental phase. Both T1 and T2 intervals are 20 minute-long periods which have been divided up into two consecutive sub-intervals of 10 minutes (T1.1 and T1.2 for T1; T2.1 and T2.2 for T2). 
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 ### 1) Average distance and speed 
 ```window_analysis.py``` implements the necessary steps to compute distance between two mice and speed of a mouse over time, while ```plot_window.py``` produces plots for overlapping distance or speed curves extracted from windows centered around all flight onsets. <br>