Experiments for detection of Plasmodium berghei infected Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes using near-infrared spectroscopy

<p> </p> <p><strong>Experiments for detection of <em>Plasmodium berghei</em> infected <em>Anopheles stephensi</em> mosquitoes using near-infrared spectroscopy</strong></p> <p>This dataset contains near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) measurements on <em>Plasmodium berghei</em> infected <em>Anopheles stephensi</em> mosquitoes reared in the lab together with either oocyst counts or sporozoite counts, correponding to the two experiments undertaken:</p> <ul> <li>Experiment 1 (oocysts), file "NIRSdata2017_Lab_AnSteph_PlasmBerg_oocysts.txt"</li> <li>Experiment 2 (sporozoites), file "NIRSdata2017_Lab_AnSteph_PlasmBerg_sporozoites.txt"</li> </ul> <p>For further details on the experimental setup see: P.M. Esperança, A.M. Blagborough, D.F. Da, F.E. Dowell, T.S. Churcher (2018) "Detection of <em>Plasmodium berghei</em> infected <em>Anopheles stephensi</em> using near-infrared spectroscopy". <em>bioRxiv</em>. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/195925">https://doi.org/10.1101/195925</a>.</p> <p>The structure of the data files is as follows:</p> <ul> <li>column 1 (<strong>Scan_ID</strong>): scan identifier</li> <li>column 2 (<strong>Mosquito_ID</strong>): mosquito identifier</li> <li>column 3 (<strong>Replication</strong>): replication identifier</li> <li>column 4 (<strong>Oocysts</strong> or <strong>Sporozoites</strong>): response variable <ul> <li>for the Experiment 1, the oocyst count<em> </em>on a level-scale</li> <li>for the Experiment 2, the sporozoite count on a log-scale: 0 (no sporozoites), 1 (1–10), 2 (11–100), 3 (101–1000), 4 (>1000)</li> </ul> </li> <li>columns 5 to 2155 (<strong>x350</strong> to <strong>x2500</strong>): NIRS absorbance measurements for wavelengths in the range 350 to 2500 nanometers</li> </ul> <p>