FEED Archive

The Feeding Experiments End-User Database (FEED) was designed by the Mammalian Feeding Apparatus Working Group supported by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent). See Additional Notes for information on (1) accessing the source code for the FEEDv2.0.3 database, and (2) accessing the ontologies (MFMO and OPBO).

The data are archived here.  The raw data are in .dat files, and the metadata pertaining to a specific numbered trial are in .csv format.  All raw data and metadata are available for re-use.  The .csv files named with the convention "trial_####_channels" contain metadata pertaining to an individual trial.  The complete list of trials available for download, including relevant metadata for analyzing the in vivo data, are in the file "FEED_Archive_Master_Trials.csv".  Raw data and metadata uploaded here are from FEEDv2 (2008-2018).

FEED design and development funded by NSF-ABI-1062333 (CEW) and NSF-EF-0423641.  NSF-EF0423641 funded the National Evolution Synthesis Center (NESCent) at Duke University (Principal Investigator: K. K. Smith).

PUBLICATIONS AND HOW TO CITE:

If you use the FEED data, ontologies, or application, or publish results attained from it, please cite as follows:
Wall, C. E., Vinyard, C. J., Williams, S. H., Gapeyev, V., Liu, X., Lapp, H., and German, R. Z. 2011. Overview of FEED, the Feeding Experiments End-User Database. Integrative and Comparative Biology 51(2):215-223. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icb/icr047.

Analysis of the raw EMGs in this FEED Archive can be analyzed with tools developed by Ying and Wall (2016).  Please cite as follows:

Ying, R. and Wall, C. E. (2016) A method for discrimination of noise and EMG signal regions recorded during rhythmic behaviors. Journal of Biomechanics 49:4113-4118.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2016.10.010.  The tools are in a set of MATLAB (The Mathworks, Inc.) code is available for download at Github (https://github.com/FEEDEXP/EMG-Extractor).