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Whitney L. E. Tsai

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles CountyORCID 0000-0003-3274-2829Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Research Focus:dimensionality reduction· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Assay:imaging· 1

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charisma: An R package to perform reproducible color characterization of digital images for biological studies

Shawn Tyler Schwartz, Whitney L. E. Tsai, Elizabeth A Karan, Mark S. Juhn, Allison J. Shultz, John E. McCormack, Thomas B. Smith, Michael E. Alfaro

The paper introduces the charisma R package for reproducible color characterization of digital images, demonstrating its utility in analyzing color evolution in birds.

Methods in Ecology and Evolution · Apr 27, 2026Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology