High-throughput flow cytometry data normalization for clinical trials

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 277-286

  Finak, Greg ^a   Jiang, Wenxin ^a   Krouse, Kevin ^b   Wei, Chungwen ^c   Sanz, Ignacio ^c   Phippard, Deborah ^d   Asare, Adam ^d   De Rosa, Stephen C ^a,e   Self, Steve ^a,e   Gottardo, Raphael ^a,e  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b LabKey Software   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Immune Tolerance Network   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; BioConductor; Immunology; Staining variability; Template gating

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS VACCINE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIAS; BIOCONDUCTOR; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPUTER PROGRAM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; STAINING VARIABILITY; STATISTICS; TEMPLATE GATING;

BIAS; BIOCONDUCTOR; IMMUNOLOGY; STAINING VARIABILITY; TEMPLATE GATING;

AIDS VACCINES; ALGORITHMS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CYTOKINES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84894066010     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: 15524930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.22433     Document Type: Article

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