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Generation of flow cytometry data files with a potentially infinite number of dimensions†

  1. Carlos E. Pedreira1,
  2. Elaine S. Costa2,
  3. Susana Barrena3,
  4. Quentin Lecrevisse3,
  5. Julia Almeida3,
  6. Jacques J. M. van Dongen4,
  7. Alberto Orfao3,*

Article first published online: 15 JUL 2008

DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.20608

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Cytometry Part A

Cytometry Part A

Volume 73A, Issue 9, pages 834–846, September 2008

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Pedreira, C. E., Costa, E. S., Barrena, S., Lecrevisse, Q., Almeida, J., van Dongen, J. J. M. and Orfao, A. (2008), Generation of flow cytometry data files with a potentially infinite number of dimensions. Cytometry, 73A: 834–846. doi: 10.1002/cyto.a.20608

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  1. 1

    Faculty of Medicine and COPPE, Engineering Graduate Program, UFRJ/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  2. 2

    Instituto de Pediatria e Puericultura MartagĐo Gesteira and Departamento de Clínica Médica, UFRJ/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  3. 3

    Cytometry Service, Department of Medicine and Cancer Research Center (IBMCC, University of Salamanca-CSIC), University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

  4. 4

    Department of Immunology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

*Centro de Investigación del Cáncer, Paseo de la Universidad de Coimbra, s/n, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, 37007 Salamanca, Spain

  1. †

    Disclosure of Information: None of the authors is employed by Cytognos S.L.; nor own a commercial stake in this company. Regardless, Cytognos S.L. is part of the EU-supported EuroFlow Research Consortium, has implemented some of the algorithms described in the present study, in its proprietary software INFINICYT, and has a contract license of several patents owned by the University of Salamanca, of which A. Orfao, C. E. Pedreira, and E. S. Costa are inventors.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 28 AUG 2008
  2. Article first published online: 15 JUL 2008
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 2 JUN 2008
  4. Manuscript Revised: 2 FEB 2008
  5. Manuscript Received: 5 DEC 2007

Funded by

  • European Commission (EuroFlow). Grant Number: LSHB-CT-2006-018708
  • Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, Madrid, Spain. Grant Number: ISCIII-RTICC RD06/0020/0035-FEDER
  • Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Madrid, Spain (Programa Hispano-Brasileño de Cooperación Universitaria). Grant Number: Ref. PHB 2004-0800-PC
  • CAPES/Ministerio da Educação Brasília, Brazil
  • CNPq, Brazilian National Research Council, Brasília, Brazil. Grant Numbers: 478234/2007-4, 474763/2006-4
  • FAPERJ, Rio de Janeiro Research Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Grant Numbers: 152579/2006, 171245/2006
  • Fundación Marcelino Botín (Madrid, Spain)

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