An introduction to automated flow cytometry gating tools and their implementation

Frontiers in Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue JUL, 2015, Pages

  Verschoor, Chris P ^a   Lelic, Alina ^a   Bramson, Jonathan L ^a   Bowdish, Dawn M E ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automated analysis; Flow cytometry; Gating; High throughput; Immunology; Software

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; GATING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84938511900     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16643224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2015.00380     Document Type: Article

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