Automation in high‐content flow cytometry screening
Open Access
- 22 June 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Cytometry Part A
- Vol. 75A (9) , 789-797
- https://doi.org/10.1002/cyto.a.20754
Abstract
High‐content flow cytometric screening (FC‐HCS) is a 21st Century technology that combines robotic fluid handling, flow cytometric instrumentation, and bioinformatics software, so that relatively large numbers of flow cytometric samples can be processed and analysed in a short period of time. We revisit a recent application of FC‐HCS to the problem of cellular signature definition for acute graft‐versus‐host‐disease. Our focus is on automation of the data processing steps using recent advances in statistical methodology. We demonstrate that effective results, on par with those obtained via manual processing, can be achieved using our automatic techniques. Such automation of FC‐HCS has the potential to drastically improve diagnosis and biomarker identification. © 2009 International Society for Advancement of CytometryKeywords
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