Hi Cliff, We've been using CELLQuest(CQ) pro for a couple of months on our BD LSR, Mac G4 OS9.0 and it has a few differences from CQ, the most important from our point of view is that it can "drive" an LSR. A quick summary of other differences are: a "hilight" feature to enlarge the dot size for events meeting the selected gate criteria, a useful feature we use a lot; a snap function for drawing regions (analysis); functions (addition/ division etc) can be performed on generated stats; there is a new Browser floating window which essentially replaces the Acquisition Control floating window which is used in CQ, and really goes back to what we had in many respects in LYSIS II, with parameter description items, filename, SAMPLE ID etc controllable from one window. You can also use the Browser to load different instrument settings to the instrument for alternating tubes, for example, but it's not something we do routinely; the Inspector is a new tool which is plot/window sensitive, and you can use it to modify plot attributes such as font face, number of dots displayed, apply gates etc. There are a few other things but practically it's a short learning curve from CQ to CQ Pro. Whether the new features are worth the extra dollars is hard to say, but if you have the finances buy it and see for yourself. Hope this helps Geoff At 02:39 PM 7/25/01 -0600, Cliff McArthur wrote: > >Hi All, > >You know the drill... sales calls and conversations with sales people >aside, I'd love to know just what the differences are between Cell Quest >and Cell Quest Pro. Furthermore, I'd love to know why I'd hear of a price >quote of something like $5000 for the latter. > >?!?!?!?!?! > >I've only recently heard about this Pro version of Cell Quest, and a search >of the archives yields me little to nothing. > >Many thanks, >Cliff J. McArthur >The University of California at San Francisco >Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious disease >cliff@itsa.ucsf.edu >415-502-6860 > > Geoffrey Osborne Specialist, Flow Cytometry, John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, 0200, ACT. AUSTRALIA email: geoff.osborne@anu.edu.au http://jcsmr.anu.edu.au/facslab/facshome.html (61 2) 6125 3694.
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