Current status of RFlowCyt

From: A.J. Rossini (rossini@blindglobe.net)
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 16:44:36 EST


Thanks to everyone who responded to my initial email regarding the
development of an open-source prototyping system for analytic flow
cytometry.   I just recieved another email, which reminded me that I'd
not communicated back to a few of those who responded.

Our current status is that we are still debugging "real" examples,
especially reading raw FCS files (we are learning more about the
myriad contortions for storing packed binary data than we'd every
imagined existed, and we weren't novices to start out with).  We are
getting better at auto-detection along with "fixed" settings for
various units.  I will be following up again in late November/December
as we expand our test cases to look at more applicability to other
protocols, statistical inferential tools, and visualization
approaches.

I really appreciate the feedback from the numerous groups (brave
souls!) who have dived in to provide us with helpful feedback, bugs,
and test cases.  It's moving along slowly, and while I can't promise
release dates (we only have partial funding, and none for me), I'd
really like it to be useful to others by spring.

best,
-tony

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