For Vantage(Diva) users #1 - beads?

From: Adrian Smith (A.Smith@centenary.usyd.edu.AU)
Date: Fri Sep 06 2002 - 00:58:06 EST


To all the Vantage users out there (and those doing lots of colours),

	We are (still) trying to set up our Vantage (DiVA) for >6
colours and we are wondering what people are using for "tweaking"
alignments, voltages etc for far red and UV fluorochromes. Last time
we checked with BD in Australia they didn't have any beads to
recommend or sell us. We have tried with various stained cells but we
are looking for something more reproducible for initial setup and
optimisation.

We are also interested in getting some idea of the settings people
use and the levels we should be expecting from various flurochromes
so we have a rough baseline from which to work.

At this stage we are completely open to using any combination of
fluorochromes - we just want to use more than 4!

The Vantage is set up with three lasers (UV, 488, 633) and 8
detectors (2,4,2) or which 3 or 4 are supposed to be the far-red type.

Any comments and suggestions would be most welcome!

Thanks,

Adrian

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