Support material for "A Cellular Platform for the Development of Synthetic Living Machines"

by Douglas Blackiston, Emma Lederer, Sam Kriegman, Simon Garnier, Josh Bongard, and Michael Levin

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This repository contains code and data for reproducing the behavioral analysis described in the manuscript.

In order to run the included code, you will need to install the following software:

• R (https://cran.r-project.org/)
• RStudio (https://rstudio.com/)
• The following R packages:
  • readr
  • readxl
  • dplyr
  • stringr
  • lubridate
  • ggplot2
  • rebmix
  • circular
  • patchwork
  • CEC
  • cluster
  • ggforce
  • RColorBrewer
  • tidyr
  • msm
  • tidygraph
  • ggraph
  • scales

All other dependencies will be installed for you during the execution of the scripts and notebooks.

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In order to reproduce the analysis, you will need to perform the following steps:

1. Download (or clone) the content of the repository to your local computer.
2. Open data_prep.R and final.Rmd with RStudio.
3. Run the content of data_prep.R to prepare the raw data for analysis.
4. Run the content of final.Rmd to obtain the results presented in the manuscript.