Re: Vantage cell counts

From: A Herman, Pathology & Microbiology (A.Herman@bristol.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Dec 06 2002 - 04:35:09 EST


Dear Ken,
  Are you sorting using Normal-R?  Using Normal-R the "coincident abort
events" are counted even when they are not sorted. If you see a very high
abort frequency, this may be contributing to the discrepancy.

Yours,
Andrew

--On Wednesday, November 27, 2002 17:41 -0500 "McDonald, Ken"
<ken_mcdonald@Merck.com> wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>	I'm seeing a discrepancy in what the Vantage sorter tells me it's
> sorted and the actual numbers sorted. For example, I sorted for green
> calibite beads (30,000) and when I re-ran them to check for purity there
> were roughly 15,000 only. Does anyone have the same problem? The purity is
> good (99%) and everything else checks out by the book?..Thanks in
> advance..Ken
>
> Ken McDonald (Biologist)
> Merck Frosst Canada
> Tel: 514-428-2802
> email: ken_mcdonald@merck.com
> www.merckfrosstlab.ca
>
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