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

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.

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

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