I wonder how many core facility managers are willing to take responsibility for badly designed experiments with no controls and published against their better advice. I would recommend that flow data be not generated and passed on to the investigator unless it was pre-agreed that the experiment design meets some sort of criteria (controls, viability.. etc) Maciej --- "Barren, Phil" <BarrenP@MedImmune.com> wrote: > > I just can't resist. > > If you run samples through your instrument and then pass the data > on to the > investigator, then it is you responsibility to make sure the data > is > interpreted correctly. You are responsible for the data output from > the > Cytometer. > > With this in mind, if people are publishing results from your Flow > work, > then it is your responsibility to make sure the interpretation and > final > publication of the data is correct. > > So how about we all agree on criteria for correctly displayed data > and take > the responsibility to make sure that it is correct. > This is what we get paid to do, and we should not allow bad data > (or > figures) to make it to publication. > > This is called taking responsibility for your part of the work. > > Yes many investigators are not as well tuned to the nuances of the > data from > a Flow Cytometer, and that is why it is called Collaboration > > Tks > > Pb ===== `---------------------------------------------` | Maciej S. Simm | 525 E 68th Street | | Research Technician | Room N-805 | | Cornell Medical Center | Tel. 212.746.3428 | `---------------------------------------------` |www.cd4cd8.com | 917-734-6280 | AIM - XsimmX | `---------------------------------------------` __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
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