# Introduction

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This documentation contains resources and information about highly comparative time-series analysis using *hctsa*, and also outlines the steps required to **set up and implement highly comparative time-series analysis** using the [*hctsa* package](https://github.com/benfulcher/hctsa), as described in our papers:

1. B.D. Fulcher and N.S. Jones. [*hctsa*: A computational framework for automated time-series phenotyping using massive feature extraction](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cels.2017.10.001). *Cell Systems* **5**, 527 (2017).
2. B.D. Fulcher, M.A. Little, N.S. Jones. [Highly comparative time-series analysis: the empirical structure of time series and their methods](http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/83/20130048.full). *J. Roy. Soc. Interface* **10**, 20130048 (2013).