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FlowJo 7.6 Prefs - deployment considerations

Some of our larger sites want to roll out FlowJo via a MSI installer, which we don't yet have (putting it off till FlowJo X.) As a workaround to this we recommend that one user installs the software and then distributes the contents of FlowJo's installed location to other users... Read more →

new trick for preferences files

Adam writes: I implemented changing prefs files on the fly in 7.6. Either do an Open Workspace... and select anything.prefs, or drag anything.prefs onto an open workspace window. This should be good news to anyone trying to juggle multiple preferences file. Available in next 7.6 build I post. Read more →

Population Comparison tutorial

Download Population video tutorial, 15MB (quicktime) This is to present a slight twist on the interface as you may have seen it in the Mac version. Read more →

data range adjustment video tutorial/rant

Dataranges (quicktime, 13MB) this is to introduce the new tool for adjusting range parameters in high-res FCS3 data (Accuri, XDP, etc.) This is the first implementation, we expect to improve it for flowjo x, given your feedback. This has been in all of the betas from the past 2-3 months... Read more →

new USB keys

Forbidden Dongle

The daily dongle is blocked in China. Looks like a good opportunity for a localized clone of the blog. (Culturally witty) title suggestions are welcome! Read more →

64 bit flowjo, XDP data

news on the 7.6 front: we successfully opened a 2.18GB file generated by DIVA in the 7.6 version of FJ, compiled in 64 bit already, since we made it available for the mac. I just never got a file big enough to test that it's really 64 bitty. :) The... Read more →

DeNovo software publishes cytometry book online

Claudio Vallan of FlowJo-Europe sent us a tip about a new site DeNovo launched: http://flowbook.denovosoftware.com/ similarly to Invitrogen's initiative on putting up Dr. Howard Shapiro's Hitchhiker's Guide To Flow Cytometery [tic], DeNovo software published a well rounded electronic reference for Students of Flow. Where's flowjo's book? Well, at least we... Read more →

interesting publication stats

ApSci Nicholas Ostrout has done some diggin' on pubmed, to yield the following publication factoids: Immunity: 85 papers in 2007 used Flow Cytometry either for sorting or analysis, and out of those, only 47 explicitly stated their analysis package. Of those 47: 10 - used Cell Quest 3 - FACSDiva... Read more →

Plant flow cytometry

For those of you not on Purdue, Joao Loureiro from Portugal wrote: It is with great pleasure that I announce the first forum and blog on plant flow cytometry. These two new platforms are at your disposal to discuss general topics in plant flow cytometry, to post any doubts or... Read more →