Re: Creating a database of FCS files

Hello Adrian,

If you are willing to use a PC, then FCS Express (www.denovosoftware.com) 
can do what you need. You can choose which keywords you are interested in 
and then automatically export them to Excel. Each keyword will become a 
different column and each data file will have its own row. You can choose 
which files you are interested in processing, and FCS Express will 
automatically extract the keywords you are interested in and place them in 
the spreadsheet.

-Dave

At 06:56 PM 4/22/2004, Adrian Smith wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Some of the users here have raised the desirability of having a database 
>of all the FCS headers from all their data files. They could then, for 
>example, search for all the files/experiments in which they used a 
>particular stain etc.
>
>Is anybody doing this? Would this be something that other people would 
>find useful?
>
>I would love to set something up but I don't have the requisite skills or 
>time at the moment.
>
>As a temporary measure I suggested they export the FCS header info from 
>FlowJo using using a table and then compile them all in another program 
>like excel. This works for a few experiments but it needs to be automated 
>(and easy) if it is going to be generally applicable.
>
>Any comments or suggestions?
>
>Adrian Smith
>Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology
>Sydney, Australia

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