Dear J. Paul
Dear Zbigniew,
and dear Flowers
First point :
I read all your comments and I agree that
the best solution is to educate has "Rafael Nunez" said
"we should improve the training in flow Cytometry
instead of playing some kind of "super flow-guru"
and concentratingthe knowledge in a few lucky guys".
Second point:
I totally agree with your proposal on about the instruction to the authors.
Spencer Brown and myself have always been estonish by the Bad quality of
the presentations. But, also so many errors which come from the
reviewers... because they are not alway qualified to look carefully at the
flow histogram presentations.
It is also clear that this document should be adressed to many other
journals in order to setbetter flow cytometry presentations. It is to often
that we cannot see the baseline for exemple or the zero point in a cross
axis for exemple. Very often also curves resumed the flow data and we have
no explanation on how they have been acquired (gates, number of events,
threshold etc...).
Third point:
I have the perfect exemple of a situation where all ("I say all" and not
only american) flow cytometrists can participate to the elaboration of a
page or two flier - instruction s to the authors.
Remember we are supposed to be an INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION.
Sincerely yours
Dr. Patrice Petit
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