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COPASutils: an R Package for Reading, Processing, and Visualizing Data from COPAS Large-particle Flow Cytometers

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Journal PLoS One
Specialties General Medicine
Science
Date 2014 Oct 21
PMID 25329171
Citations 29
Authors
Tyler C Shimko
Erik C Andersen
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Abstract

The R package COPASutils provides a logical workflow for the reading, processing, and visualization of data obtained from the Union Biometrica Complex Object Parametric Analyzer and Sorter (COPAS) or the BioSorter large-particle flow cytometers. Data obtained from these powerful experimental platforms can be unwieldy, leading to difficulties in the ability to process and visualize the data using existing tools. Researchers studying small organisms, such as Caenorhabditis elegans, Anopheles gambiae, and Danio rerio, and using these devices will benefit from this streamlined and extensible R package. COPASutils offers a powerful suite of functions for the rapid processing and analysis of large high-throughput screening data sets.

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