Frequently Asked Questions#

These are some questions that are commonly asked about Cytoflow’s GUI, especially by new users.

I’ve made one of the panels (eg, the View settings panel) disappear. How do I make it come back?

You can restore them by going to the View menu and toggling the checkbox next to the panel that you made disappear.

I have some information in the FCS files’ metadata that I’d like to use as experimental variables. How do I “import” them?

In the Experiment Setup dialog:

  1. Click Add a variable

  2. Select FCS Metadata as the variable type

  3. Choose the metadata you want from the Name dropdown

  4. Change the Type to something appropriate – probably Number or Category