Will 'attractors' be attractive?
J. Paul Robinson (paul)
Thu, 30 Jun 94 10:09:59 EST
A comment on the attractors software from BD.
The issue of manufacturers making their software totally compatible with
every flow file format has been discussed ad nauseam for donkey's years
to little avail. The fact is that they create markets to sell their products.
The bottom line is that someone will write a conversion program fairly
quickly (Phoenix or Verity software or Steve kelly or someone!!) that will let
you take advantage of these programs.
The use of fairly smart programs to evaluate immunophenotying data is not new,
but it has been getting more attention, particularly since one of the big
flow companies (B-D) has paid some attention to this area.
Don Frankle and myself are chairing the "Data Acquisition, Processing and
Analysis" workshop at ISAC and you might be interested that a paper on
attractors from teh B-D group will be presented entitled
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"Cellular multiparameter cluster analysis using hierarchical attractors" by
P.Bierre.
We would be happy to discuss the issus in the workshop, which is one of the
functions of the workshop I guess.
Paul Robinson
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
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