Our special issue on “Recent Bioinformatics Advances in the Analysis of High Throughput Flow Cytometry Data” has been published in Advances in Bioinformatics. This includes our own work on flowMerge, shown on the left.
Tag Archives: flow cytometry
Let the Data Flow
Last month’s issue of The Scientist had an interesting article about flow cytometry data analysis, and in particular about software and tools available for data analysis. The good news is that the article mention Bioconductor. The bad news is that it was almost a simple footnote, to quote the article it said: “Don’t forget freeware. [...]
Paper selected as JCGS highlight of 2010
The paper “Combining Mixture Components for Clustering“, by Jean-Patrick Baudry, Adrian Raftery, Gilles Celeux, Raphael Gottardo and Kenneth Lo, was selected as a Highlight of 2010 in the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. We have used this methodology for clustering flow cytometry data, as implemented in flowMerge.
flowClust free from mclust
I just wanted to post a quick note about flowClust. As of version 2.6, flowClust does not depend on mclust anymore. So for those of you who emailed us because you wanted to use flowClust but you found the mclust license too restrictive, you are now free to use flowClust! Because flowClust is distributed under [...]
flowTrans available from Bioconductor
Greg Finak has just released a Bioconductor/R package for estimating and fitting various transformation to flow cytometry data. The package, flowTrans, has been designed to play well with flowCore and flowClust. This is just a start and we hope to improve the package in the near future, but we wanted to release it ASAP so [...]
Ken wins 2009 Marshall Prize
Congratulations to Kenneth Lo who has won the 2009 Marshall Prize at UBC. The prize honours Professor Emeritus Albert Marshall for his scholarly contributions and his role in establishing the Department of Statistics at UBC. It is awarded to a statistics graduate student who has achieved great distinction. Ken thesis is entitled “”Statistical Methods for [...]
Congratulations to Marie-Pier and Greg!
Congratulations to Marie-Pier Scott-Boyer and Greg Finak who have both won a prize in the poster competition at the 2009 Robert-Cedergren colloquium in Bioinformatics. Marie-Pier won the best poster in the PhD category for her work on “Modeling gene expression networks with genomic data to identify determinants of complex quantitative traits in mouse hearts” and [...]
flow cytometry special issue
Some of the papers to be published as part of the special issue on bioinformatics approaches to flow cytometry have started to appear online. I expect that all papers accepted will be available soon, including our own paper on flowMerge. If you have not looked at flowMerge yet, please try the R package available from [...]
FICCS 5
I just got back from the FICCS 5 meeting a few days ago, and it was really good. In particular, there was a series of very interesting talks on mixture modeling for sub-population identification. For example, Guenther Walther presented some nice work on non-parametric mixture models while Cliburn Chan presented some work on Dirichlet process [...]
Call for papers in flow cytometry data analysis
A few of us in the field of flow cytometry have set up a special issue on “Recent Bioinformatics Advances in the Analysis of High Throughput Flow Cytometry Data”. The special issue will be published in the open-access journal “Advances in Bioinformatics”. For more details about it, please visit the following url: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/abi/osi.html. This is a [...]
