ABI Sustaining: Maintenance of the XMA/ZMAPortal video data management systems and XMALab video motion analysis software for the comparative biomechanics community

比较生物力学是研究控制生物体如何运动的基本工程规则的领域，经常导致实际应用和基本理解。例如，通过比较鲨鱼、鱼类和鲸鱼游泳的生物力学，已经开发出用于海底探索和搜救的高效游泳机器人。不同的研究小组使用各种仪器来收集类似的运动捕捉数据，并使用各种方法来存储和记录数据，包括商业软件和本地生成的代码作为数据分析工具，这为共享和重复使用数据和工具制造了技术障碍。由于当科学家可以共享和重复使用数据和软件时，科学进步加快了，这些技术障碍阻碍了比较生物力学领域的广泛数据共享。该项目的目标是维护在线数据管理和软件分析工具，以加速比较生物力学的研究。这些工具--动物运动分析门户网站(zmaportal.org)、X射线运动分析门户网站(xmaportal.org)和X射线运动分析实验室(XMALab客户端软件)--都是在国家科学基金会的支持下开发的，该项目将为托管在线工具提供开放源码代码库和服务器的日常维护和存储空间。这些生物信息学工具通过加强数据共享和跨物种比较的能力，正在加速比较生物力学的研究。通过这样的比较，发现了基本的工程学概念，然后可以应用于人类工程设计(生物启发的设计和仿生学)。这些进步通过技术创新提升了美国的经济竞争力。比较生物力学领域的新发现往往是由新技术的引入推动的。高速视频成像、X射线成像、XROMM和3-D运动分析是该工具包的关键组件。比较生物力学的一个基本目标是在系统发育的背景下比较物种，从而提取表型(形式)和生物力学功能之间的牢固关系。通过该资源维护的工具显著增加了运动分析的吞吐量，从而增加了可用于比较的物种数量。XMAPortal和ZMAPortal旨在标准化视频数据和元数据，从而促进从多个研究地点收集的数据对多个物种的许多研究的重现性和比较。这些产品将提高可用于比较生物力学研究的动物运动数据的质量、数量、可重用性和可比性。该项目将维护有价值的网络基础设施工具，用于研究运动中的动物，进行比较生物力学研究。它将支持继续努力，使尽可能广泛的科学家和学生能够使用这些工具。对于科学的广泛理解和欣赏，运动中的动物天生就是美丽的，对普通公众来说是迷人的。XROMM动画在视觉上令人信服，xRomm.org网站已经并继续受到非专业媒体和电视制片人的极大兴趣。这个项目的结果可以在以下稳定的URL上找到：[xromm.org；xmaportal.org；zmaportal.org；bitbuket.org/xromm/xMalab/]。

Comparative biomechanics is the field that studies the fundamental engineering rules governing how organisms move, frequently leading to practical applications as well as basic understanding. For example, by comparing the biomechanics of swimming in sharks, fish and whales, efficient swimming robots have been developed for undersea exploration and search and rescue. A wide array of instruments is used by different research groups to collect similar motion-capture data, and a wide array of methods is used to store and document the data, including both commercial software and locally-generated code as tools for data analysis, creating technical barriers to sharing and reusing both data and tools. Since progress in science is accelerated when scientists can share and reuse data and software, these technical barriers have hindered wide data sharing in the field of comparative biomechanics. The goal of this project is to maintain online data management and software analysis tools to accelerate research in comparative biomechanics. These tools, the Zoological Motion Analysis Portal (zmaportal.org), X-ray Motion Analysis Portal (xmaportal.org) and X-ray Motion Analysis Lab (XMALab client software) were developed with NSF support, and this project will provide routine maintenance of the open-source code base and server and storage space for hosting the online tools. These biological informatics tools are accelerating research in comparative biomechanics by enhancing data sharing and the ability to compare across species. From such comparisons, fundamental engineering concepts are discovered, that can then be applied to human engineering designs (biologically-inspired design and biomimetics). These advances promote US economic competiveness through technological innovation.New discoveries in the field of comparative biomechanics have often been driven by the introduction of new technologies. High-speed video imaging, X-ray imaging, XROMM and 3-D motion analysis are key components of this toolkit. A fundamental goal of comparative biomechanics is to compare species in a phylogenetic context, and thereby to extract robust relationships between phenotype (form) and biomechanical function. The tools to be maintained through this resource significantly increase the throughput of motion analysis, thereby increasing the number of species available for comparison. The XMAPortal and ZMAPortal are designed to standardize video data and metadata, thereby facilitating reproducibility and comparison among many studies of multiple species from data collected at multiple research sites. Together these products will increase the quality, quantity, reusability, and comparability of animal motion data available for comparative biomechanics research. This project will maintain valuable cyberinfrastructure tools for the study of animals in motion for comparative biomechanics research. It will support continued efforts to make these tools accessible to as wide a range of scientists and students as possible. Toward broad understanding and appreciation of science, animals in motion are inherently beautiful and fascinating to the general public. XROMM animations are visually compelling, and the xromm.org web site has received, and continues to receive, substantial interest from the lay press and television producers. The results of this project may be found at the following stable URLs: [xromm.org; xmaportal.org; zmaportal.org; bitbucket.org/xromm/xmalab/].