A computational framework to emulate the human perspective in flow cytometric data analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Ray, Surajit ^a   Pyne, Saumyadipta ^b,c  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BATCH PROCESS; CELL ISOLATION; CELL POPULATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION PROCESS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84860476264     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035693     Document Type: Article

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