The end of gating? An introduction to automated analysis of high dimensional cytometry data

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 34-43

  Mair, Florian ^a   Hartmann, Felix J ^a   Mrdjen, Dunja ^a   Tosevski, Vinko ^a   Krieg, Carsten ^a   Becher, Burkhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Citrus; CyTOF; Data analysis; Flow cytometry; Mass cytometry; PhenoGraph; PSM; SPADE; t SNE; Wanderlust

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84953836592     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: 15214141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eji.201545774     Document Type: Article

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