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¹Center for Development Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.

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Automated landmarking for complex shapes is improved with MALPACA, a new pipeline using multiple templates. This method enhances accuracy for variable samples in evolutionary studies.

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Computational Biology
Evolutionary Biology

Background:

Manual landmarking is time-consuming and prone to errors.
Existing automated methods struggle with high sample variability due to single-template bias.

Purpose of the Study:

Introduce MALPACA, a fast, open-source pipeline for automated landmarking using multiple templates.
Present a K-means method for template selection to improve MALPACA's performance.
Enhance accuracy and efficiency in quantifying complex morphological phenotypes.

Main Methods:

Developed MALPACA (Multi-template Automated Landmarking Pipeline for Comparative Analysis).
Implemented a K-means clustering algorithm for optimal template selection.
Validated performance on single and multi-species datasets.

Main Results:

MALPACA significantly outperforms single-template automated landmarking methods.
K-means template selection is more effective than random selection.
The pipeline demonstrates efficiency and reproducibility for large-scale morphological variation.

Conclusions:

MALPACA offers an efficient and reproducible solution for landmarking highly variable samples.
The multi-template approach accommodates significant morphological diversity, crucial for evolutionary studies.
Open-source software is provided to support the research community.