The Daily Dongle

couple of hacks for FlowJo

two very easy hacks are available for FlowJo/windows users (V7) 1. high memory management - if you run the installer version (not the webstart) of V7, you can manually control how much RAM FlowJo will use. By default this value is capped to 512MB. If you have more RAM, you... Read more →

DiVa training materials

Mr Blais forwarded me a link to some BD DIVA training materials: http://bdbiosciences.com/immunocytometry_systems/support/training/online/ Read more →

compensating files post concatenation

If you concatenate DiVa FCS3 files in FlowJo for Macintosh, you'll notice the concatenated file lacks compensation matrix. Here is how you can get around that: 1. select one of the source files which is compensated 2. click Platform, Compensate, Edit/Save matrix. At this point, one of two things will... Read more →

New way to label keyword values on FCS data post-acquisition

Mr. Blais has implemented a very nifty new functionality. From his email: I just added some new functionality to the CSV/tab-data user keyword pasting. If the workspace doesn't have any user editable keywords displayed, it now takes the first the row of the paste data and uses it to make... Read more →