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Robust Plugin for Massive Metadata Import into FlowJo Vx

I recently worked with a user on an interesting problem in metadata import into FlowJo Vx. Background: User has plate-sized data sets (each x 384) where some information is in the FCS format from the acquisition, but other information is also generated by their parallel analysis of those wells in... Read more →

Copy Keyword values from Excel to Flowjo X (Mac)

Hello FlowJo Gurus, Lately, we have gotten a few requests in FlowJo tech support from FlowJo X v10.0.7 users on a Mac trying to copy/paste keyword values from an Excel spreadsheet into a FlowJo workspace. Unfortunately, Excel for Mac uses the ANSI character set and FlowJo X wants Unicode characters.... Read more →

FlowJo is hiring: Application Scientist (Central US)

FlowJo, LLC is seeking a highly qualified Application Scientist in the central United States to support the Company’s two primary products – FlowJo and FlowJo Enterprise. The Application Scientist supports customers, promotes sales, and drives market development through application expertise, field demonstrations and seminars, as well as conference presentations. For... Read more →

R Nodes

I'm excited to share with you some of our work on integrating R modeling language closer to FlowJo's convenient analysis interface. I like the results, but I'd like your opinion. Have a look at the post below and if you're interested in testing, contact simm at treestar dot com. R... Read more →

Tree Star, Inc. is hiring: Web Developer, Software QA, Java Server Engineer

Tree Star is growing and looking for qualified developers and engineers to join our team. We are looking for applicants with a passion for science and computing who want to join a dynamic team working in Ashland, Oregon. If you are looking for a chance to advance bioscience research and... Read more →

CSV and Image data in FlowJo

Pre(r)abmle-While FlowJo is and will be continued to be developed as a Flow Cytometry analysis package, the tools and techniques we've developed in the user interface apply to any type of data minig. This in turn is restricted by structuring of data into FCS format, so all we're doing here,... Read more →

FlowJo on OSX 10.8, and the "Do you want [...] incoming network connections?" dialog

These dialogs occur sometimes during FJ startup on OSX10.8 macintosh machines. Typically you will get the "java" one, and if you add java to your allowed firewall entries, it will ask about flowjo. In my experience these dialogs are sporadic and transient, automatically disappearing during startup. This does not seem... Read more →

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... Read more →

problems with batching saving to excel

Due to our re-packaging a 3rd party library that we rely on for this functionality, 10.0.6 release had an error where the new library was included but was referred to by its previous file name. Long story short, if you can't batch/save to excel in this version 10.0.6, simply re-download... Read more →

FlowJo Reference Reloaded

Vx manual has been largerly reorganized, and many of the sections rewritten. This is continuting to tutorials now. So, in addition to the youtube tutorials we've posted about previously, check out docs. http://docs.flowjo.com/ Read more →