plethy

plethy processes whole body plethysmography and metabolism data from Buxco respirometry instruments exported via FinePointe, enabling import, querying, quality assessment, and exploratory analysis for respiratory physiology research.

Key Features:

• Data Import and Querying: Routines for importing and querying large datasets exported from Buxco FinePointe respirometry instruments.
• Quality Assessment: Functions for conducting quality assessments of plethysmography and metabolic measurements to identify data issues.
• Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA): Tools for exploratory analysis that are interoperable with existing modeling tools.

Scientific Applications:

• Processing Buxco FinePointe exports: Converting and structuring FinePointe-exported data for downstream analysis.
• Respiratory physiology research: Assessing and exploring whole body plethysmography and metabolism datasets to support physiological studies.
• Data quality control: Identifying and flagging measurement issues in plethysmography and metabolic data prior to modeling.

Methodology:

Implemented in R as a Bioconductor package, plethy provides routines to import and query FinePointe-exported Buxco respirometry data and functions for quality assessment and exploratory data analysis interoperable with modeling tools.