J Biol Rhythms. 2011 Oct;26(5):464-7. doi: 10.1177/0748730411414264.
While the rapid development of personal computers and high-throughput recording systems for circadian rhythms allow chronobiologists to produce huge amounts of data, the software to analyze them often lags behind. Here, we announce newly developed chronobiology software that is easy to use, compatible with many different systems, and freely available. Our system can perform the most frequently used analyses: actogram drawing, periodogram analysis, and waveform analysis. The software is distributed as a pure Java plug-in for ImageJ and so works on the 3 main operating systems: Linux, Macintosh, and Windows. We believe that this free software raises the speed of data analyses and makes studying chronobiology accessible to newcomers.
虽然个人电脑和高通量记录系统的快速发展使生理节奏生物学家能够产生大量的数据，但分析这些数据的软件往往落后。在这里，我们宣布开发了新的生理节奏生物学软件，它易于使用，与许多不同的系统兼容，并且是免费提供的。我们的系统可以执行最常用的分析：活动图绘制、频域分析和波形分析。该软件作为 ImageJ 的纯 Java 插件分发，因此可在 3 个主要操作系统上运行：Linux、Macintosh 和 Windows。我们相信，这个免费软件提高了数据分析的速度，使生理节奏生物学的研究更容易为新手所接受。
