Re: Using DIVA Exp Files in Flojo

On 15/10/2007, at 5:10 AM, Marty Bigos wrote:

> Experiment export is not useful for this. Not only are the file  
> names useless, any changes to the annotation after data collection  
> is not recorded in the FCS file. The Experiment export, however, is  
> very useful for backup and archiving. All plots and gates on the  
> worksheets are kept, providing documentation for sorting that may  
> have been done.

Except that the gates are not "fixed" in any way, ie they may well  
have been moved at some point after the initial sort was started,  
particulalry if people have been looking at the files and wondering  
what might have happened if the gates were moved just a bit this way  
or that...

I prefer a more permanent record of sort gates :)


> And this allows users to set up and annotate an experiment fully on  
> stand-alone Diva software on a remote computer, export it as an  
> experiment, and import it on the instrument connected system. This  
> can help throughput in a busy facility.

This is indeed very useful.

Regards,

Adrian Smith
Centenary Institute, Sydney, Australia