Re: help with dotplots

From: David Novo (dnovo@ucla.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 20 2002 - 15:08:23 EST



 Hi Niga,

Dot plots may be a little too "realistic" for you. Try using contour plots,
since no one ever publishes what the contour lines mean, you can make very
few cells look like nice beautiful populations :-) I will leave the moral
implications of this strategy up to you to deal with.....

-Dave

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-------Original Message-------
 
From: Nawroly, Niga
Date: Friday, December 20, 2002 11:37:05 AM
To: cyto-inbox
Subject: help with dotplots
 
Dear all

One of our lab's searchers have been looking at gamma delta T cells (very
low percentage of PBMCs). Now, he wants to present his data in dotplots
(paper quality). The problem is that, he did not acquire enough cells to be
able to see a nice population when it is printed out.

My question is to know if there is a way by using a software to make the
dots look more realistic (each dot representing one cell or half a cell!).

PS: We use winlist, cellquest and WinMDI


Have a merry Xmas and a happy new year :-)

Many thanks in advance
Niga Nawroly
Head of flow cytometry
Department of Respiratory Medicine
Imperial College (St.Mary's)
Norfolk Place
Paddington
London W2 1PG
UK
Tel: 020 7594 37 63
FAX: 020 7262 8913


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