Plate Tool in FlowJo Vx

Staring with this week's beta, Layout Editor has a cool new plate tool that allows visualization of a plate-worth of data as heatmap, split heatmap, or Chernoff faces. This utility is not to be confused with the Plate Editor platform.

 

Click the tool and then in your layout's canvas to plop a Plate: 

 

"but wait!" I suspect you might say, "my plate is not a 3x4!" Don't worry about that. The plate will automatically re-dimension (as opposed to re-size) to fit your data. Here's how that looks before the drag:  

 

 

and immediately after: 

if you double-click on this plate, the layout side-bar will reveal the plate tool's controls. I dragged 4 different stats, so I get 4 controls; notice that the one toggled to "heatmap" below is the one showing:

 

if you then switch the mode of the plate tool from "heatmap" to "split heatmap", you'll be able to set one parameter as "heatmap" and another as "lower heatmap" like so: 

Lastly we can show all 4 using Chernoff faces (head shape, mouth, eye size, eyebrows. there are 6 others ;) )

 

Comments

[Jesus]

Firstly, I am glad you are putting this in, especially in the layout editor for easy exporting.
Unfortunately, it crashes on Win7 64bit whenever I try to make a plate.

[maciej simm]

woops, you are correct. The build I posted was not the same I used for the tutorial - fixed, and is uploaded right now (20 min from this comment, you can download again and it should work.) Sorry bout that :)_

[Svetoslav]

Hi, nice tool - I'm trying to use it but for some odd reason I am getting "Found samples with no Well ID" and it doesn't generate a heatmap. In my fcs files the well ID is under $CELLS - do I need to add a new key word for well ID so that the tool recognizes it?
Thanks