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BMC bioinformatics. 2009-06-16; 10.184.

FuGEFlow: data model and markup language for flow cytometry

Qian Y, Tchuvatkina O, Spidlen J, Wilkinson P, Gasparetto M, Jones AR, Manion FJ, Scheuermann RH, Sekaly RP, Brinkman RR

PMID: 19531228

Abstract

Flow cytometry technology is widely used in both health care and research. The rapid expansion of flow cytometry applications has outpaced the development of data storage and analysis tools. Collaborative efforts being taken to eliminate this gap include building common vocabularies and ontologies, designing generic data models, and defining data exchange formats. The Minimum Information about a Flow Cytometry Experiment (MIFlowCyt) standard was recently adopted by the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry. This standard guides researchers on the information that should be included in peer reviewed publications, but it is insufficient for data exchange and integration between computational systems. The Functional Genomics Experiment (FuGE) formalizes common aspects of comprehensive and high throughput experiments across different biological technologies. We have extended FuGE object model to accommodate flow cytometry data and metadata.

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