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Qiaopeng Chen¹, Aditya Sriram², Ayan Das¹

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.

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We developed BARCODE, an open-access software for analyzing microscopy videos of active materials. This tool automates high-throughput screening, enabling efficient optimization and discovery of novel non-equilibrium materials.

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Area of Science:

Materials Engineering
Biomaterials Science
Data Science

Background:

Active, responsive, non-equilibrium materials exhibit life-like properties but generate large, complex datasets.
Conventional analysis methods struggle with the scale and complexity of data from these advanced materials.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce BARCODE (Biomaterial Activity Readouts to Categorize, Optimize, Design and Engineer), an open-access software.
To automate high-throughput screening of microscopy video data for non-equilibrium materials.
To enable efficient material optimization and discovery through streamlined data analysis.

Main Methods:

BARCODE automates the analysis of microscopy video data.
It employs three material-agnostic analysis branches to reduce data dimensionality and size.
The software generates a unique 'barcode' fingerprint of performance metrics for dynamic material properties.

Main Results:

BARCODE significantly reduces data dimensionality and file size.
It provides rich, multiparametric outputs for rapid characterization of material activity and structure.
Analysis of cytoskeleton networks and cell monolayers demonstrated accelerated screening and revealed unexpected correlations.

Conclusions:

BARCODE enables efficient optimization and discovery of non-equilibrium materials.
The software facilitates broad non-expert data access, comparison, and sharing.
BARCODE streamlines the analysis of complex material behavior from microscopy data.