Curveball: Predicting competition results from growth curves¶
Author: Yoav Ram
Curveball is an open-source software for analysis and visualization of high-throughput growth curve data and prediction of competition experiment results.
Curveball:
fits growth models to growth curve data to estimate values of growth traits
uses estimated growth traits and competition models to predict results of competition experiments
infers fitness and selection coefficients from predicted competition results
Who is this for?¶
Curveball is for researchers who want to analyze growth curve data using a framework that integrates population dynamics and population genetics, allowing the inference and interpretation of differences in fitness between strains in terms of differences in growth traits.
Curveball provides a command line interface (CLI) and an programmatic interface (API) that can directly work with collections of growth curve measurements (e.g., 96-well plates).
No programmings skills are required for using the CLI; basic familiarity with the Python programming language is recommended for using the API.
Note
This documentation provides technical details on using Curveball. For more information on the theoretical and computational aspects of Curveball, read the paper:
Ram, Dellus-Gur, Bibi, Karkare, Obolski, Feldman, Cooper, Berman, Hadany. (2019) Predicting microbial relative growth in a mixed culture from growth curve data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA. doi:10.1073/pnas.1902217116
or the preprint:
Ram et al. (2015) Predicting competition results from growth curves. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/022640.
Quickstart¶
Install Anaconda with Python 3, then run:
>>> python -m pip install curveball
>>> curveball --help
For more detailed instructions, Proceed to the Installation instructions and then to the Tutorial.
Contents¶
API¶
References¶
Source code: GitHub
Download: PyPI
Bugs, comments or questions: GitHub Issues
Buildbot: Travis-CI
Code coverage: Codecov
Note
Curveball source code and examples are licensed under the terms of the MIT license.
Curveball documentation, examples, and other materials are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
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