Pasta Bite Analysis Tool helps researchers analyze pasta biting, chewing, and gnawing behavior from local video and audio recordings.
Main analysis workflow
- Load a user-selected video file and optional audio file.
- Display synchronized video playback and audio waveform views.
- Use original video audio or external audio when appropriate.
- Adjust audio offset and playback controls for review.
- Mark analysis start and stop, pasta dropped, pasta contact, gnaw, bite, and chew events.
- Use threshold-based auto detection for gnaw, bite, or chew events.
- Refresh detected events while preserving user edits.
- Save annotated sessions and export event summary files.
Cohort analysis workflow
- Import exported Pasta Bite event summary files.
- Assign experimental factors such as genotype, sex, or a third user-defined factor.
- Save and reopen cohort files.
- Add more data files to an existing cohort file.
- Inspect all measured parameters and missing data.
- Run one-click statistical analysis across measured parameters.
- Generate customizable plots for selected measures.
- Export master data files, results, and plot images.
Privacy and data handling
The desktop application works with files selected by the user on the local computer.
- Video and audio files remain on the user's computer.
- Annotated sessions and cohort files are not uploaded to BioAtlas servers.
- Researchers choose where exported results and plot images are saved.
- Read BioAtlas Privacy Policy for more information.
