Thursday, October 6, 2011

Useful Free Software for Ethology, Behavior Analysis and Conservation

This is just a list of software that I played with or just found interesting. I will come back with more detailed descriptions.


Agna - Social Network Analysis
SocNetV - Social Network Analysis
jWatcher - Behavioral Analysis
CowLog - Behavioral Analysis (not as complex as JWatcher)
EthoLog - Behavioral Analysis
Distance - Distance sampling surveys of wildlife populations
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2847204/
Vortex - Population Viability Analysis
ArcGIS - online mapping application
Maxent - species habitat modeling
Garp - predict and analyze wild species distributions
JAABA - The Janelia Automatic Animal Behavior Annotator (JAABA) is a machine learning-based system that enables researchers to automatically compute interpretable, quantitative statistics describing video of behaving animals.

9 comments:

  1. do you know any software for hierarchy analysis?

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  2. EthoSeq: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and data mining in behavioral sequences.
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17393823

    :)

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  3. cual me recomiendas para estudios de comportamiento en animales?? mi investigación es con manatíes

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  4. Does anyone have a sources of info that guide you how to use agna for animal behaviour am struggling to find this. thanks!

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    1. Stephanie, sorry for the delayed response. I used AGNA in such a context. Drop me an e-mail and I will explain ;)
      victor_chitic@yahoo.com

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  5. Thank you very much for sharing this links! I found CowLog is very easy to use!

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  6. Pretty much same comment as above. Good on yer, mate!

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