July 05, 2019
Bulletin interne de l'Institut Pasteur
An innovative tool to study psychiatric or infectious diseases
The Cap'CARNOT event is organized by the Association of Carnot Institutes to promote dialog between the Carnot Institutes1 and drivers of innovation in artificial intelligence for health. At the event on Thursday June 27, 2019, the Pasteur Microbes and Health Carnot Institute presented a tool based on artificial intelligence that can be used to monitor the behavior of mice in real time and characterize their social interactions. This innovative system has considerable potential for research that uses mouse models to characterize and understand the role of environmental mutations and factors in both psychiatric and infectious diseases. It is also of interest for therapeutic trials for these diseases. This progress is all the more important as the system is also open source and open hardware, two important elements of the open science movement to which the Institut Pasteur is firmly committed.