CeAid: a smartphone application for logging and plotting Caenorhabditis elegans assays. Author Salman Sohrabi, Rebecca Moore, Coleen Murphy Publication Year 2021 Type Journal Article Abstract Caenorhabditis elegans is used as a model organism to study a wide range of topics in molecular and cellular biology. Conventional C. elegans assays often require a large sample size with frequent manipulations, rendering them labor-intensive. Automated high-throughput workflows may not be always the best solution to reduce benchwork labor, as they may introduce more complexity. Thus, most assays are carried out manually, where logging and digitizing experimental data can be as time-consuming as picking and scoring worms. Here we report the development of CeAid, C. elegans Application for inputting data, which significantly expedites the data entry process, utilizing swiping gestures and a voice recognition algorithm for logging data using a standard smartphone or Android device. This modular platform can also be adapted for a wide range of assays where recording data is laborious, even beyond worm research. Keywords Animals, Caenorhabditis elegans, Biological Assay, Software, Smartphone Journal G3 (Bethesda) Volume 11 Issue 10 Date Published 2021 Sep 27 ISSN Number 2160-1836 DOI 10.1093/g3journal/jkab259 Alternate Journal G3 (Bethesda) PMCID PMC8473968 PMID 34568934 PubMedPubMed CentralGoogle ScholarBibTeXEndNote X3 XML