Social structure and individuals' behavior shaped by group composition in long-term tracking of rats

Trajectory data and behavioral metrics from long-term tracking of groups of rats.  Experiments performed in 2012 at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.

The data here is used in the following publication. See the publication for information on experimental structure and notation.
Nagy, Máté, Jacob Davidson, Gábor Vásárhelyi, Dániel Ábel, Enikő Kubinyi, Ahmed El Hady, and Tamás Vicsek. 2023. “Social Structure and Individuals’ Behavior Shaped by Group Composition in Long-Term Tracking of Rats.” bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.18.533183.

Github repository to reproduce results in the paper: github.com/jacobdavidson/ratsocialgroups
Github repositories used for tracking and computation of behavioral metrics: github.com/vasarhelyi

The behavioral metrics, approach-avoidance networks, individual labels and group membership information, and behavioral assay data needed to reproduce the results in the publication are included in the zip  file metrics-networks-labels.zip.  This includes the following files in .csv format:

Naming/labels:

• uidlabels.csv: References the ranked-mass labels used in the paper to the 3-color-code labels that identify each rat from the tracking.  "Group" is the membership during the original groups (Period 1), and "GroupG" is membership during the remixed groups (Period 3).

  	masslabel	GroupMassRank-Exp7	Group	GroupG
  GOB	a5	5.0	A1	G3
  ...	...	...	...	...

• groupnames.csv:  Group membership information for each rat, during each experimental period

  Experiments	GOB	OBG	...
  1-7	A1	A1	...
  ...	...	...	...

Behavioral metrics and approach-avoidance networks:

• metrics.csv: Behavioral metrics for each rat, calculated for each experiment.

  Experiment	metric	GOB	OBG	...
  1	AA	0	0.690964	...
  ...	...	...	...	...

• Networks-Period1+Period3.csv: Approach-avoidance interaction networks for the groups of 7 rats in Period 1 and Period 3.  

  Experiment	DayNight	Group	index	winner	loser0	loser1	loser2	loser3	loser4	loser5	loser6
  1	Day	A1	0	GOB	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
  ...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...

• Networks-Experiment8.csv and Networks-Experiment9.csv: Approach-avoidance interaction networks for the larger combined groups in the experiments during Period 2. 

Behavioral assays results:

• IndividualTests.csv:  Individual behavioral assay test results for the black and white box, elevated plus-maze, and canopy tests.

  ID	BWB-All Frames	BWB-Black	...
  BGP	7500	6860	...
  ...	...	...	...

• PairedTests.csv:  Pairwise social interaction behavioral assay test results for tests with unfamiliar and familiar rats

  rat_ID	rat_group_N	freq_standup_unfam1	...
  BGP	2	28	...
  ...	...	...	...

Trajectory data is included as multiple text files for each experiment in TSV format.  #t is frame number, Color_code_name identifies each rat, Real_recognition(1)_or_virtual(0) = 1 is a detection of the rat's color codes while 0 is an interpolated value, x,y, and Orientation are the position and orientation of the rat.

Time-lapse video of the entire experiment:  ratlab_timelapse_entire_exp.avi