Data Management

From: Jeannine Navratil (jsn9@imap.pitt.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 06 2002 - 16:18:18 EST


Hello to all the helpful, and far-more-knowledgable-than-me flow
cytometrists out there:

I've been involved in what started out as a relatively small
cytometry-based human study that has recently ballooned into something
much larger (10-fold increase in study participants, and still
growing).  I have been taking my flow data, hand-entering it into
spreadsheet databases, which get sent to a statistician to correlate
with other clincal features of the diseases we are studying.  What
started out as a relatively simple task (typing flow values into an
Excell database) has become more and more time-consuming.  My question
is for those of you especially who run clinical flow cytometry labs that
generate high volumes of data:  How do you manage the data once it is
generated?  Are there any programs available that take the data
automatically once the samples have been run and enter the values
directly into a spreadsheet?  Or do you hire work study students to do
this for you??  Please help me!

I'm running a FACSCalibur, and CellQuest software.

Thanks a bunch!

Jeannine Navratil
University of Pittsburgh



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