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TimeTraits: extracting functional traits from biological time-series in R

Lock, S. C. L.; Knight, M.; Davis, S.; Ezer, D.

2026-02-20 plant biology
10.64898/2026.02.20.706990 bioRxiv
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SummaryTimeTraits provides a series of functions to enable the extraction of parameters from time series data using Functional Data Analysis methods. We demonstrate its utility in dissecting the changes in curve shape of a circadian clock bioluminescence marker, following a photoperiod shift in wildtype and phyB Arabidopsis. Availability and ImplementationTimeTraits is available in CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/TimeTraits/readme/README.html

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