RE: Data Management

From: Gerstein, Rachel (Rachel.Gerstein@umassmed.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 10 2002 - 17:18:59 EST


Hi

We use FlowJo (www.treestar.com/flowjo/).   any values that you generate
from your flow analysis can very easily be put into a table format, that is
easily transferred to Excel - no more typing values by hand!.  You can
readily use your data acquired using CellQuest.

Good luck,
Rachel

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Rachel M. Gerstein, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Graduate Program in Immunology/Virology
University of Massachusetts Medical School
55 Lake Avenue North
Worcester, MA 01655-0002
(508) 856-1044
(508) 856-5920 (FAX)


> ----------
> From:		Jeannine Navratil
> Sent:		Thursday, June 6, 2002 5:18 PM
> To:	Cytometry Mailing List
> Subject:	Data Management
>
>
> 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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