Author: Liz Johannesen

August 1, 2018  |  Announcements, Press Releases

PRESS RELEASE: Cytobank Awarded NIH Grant to Scale its Cloud-based Machine Learning Platform for Accelerating Immunotherapy Translational Research

 Novel data analysis methods will automate biomarker discovery
to predict patient response in clinical trials

Mountain View, Calif. – August 1, 2108 – Cytobank has beenNIHLogo awarded a $1.3M Phase II SBIR grant from the NIH to scale and add more machine learning algorithms to its popular cloud-based informatics platform. In use at many leading academic institutions and the top ten global pharmaceutical companies, Cytobank’s research platform enables faster, more comprehensive analysis of the high-dimensional single cell datasets captured in immunotherapy clinical trials. There are greater than 1,000 active clinical trials for immunotherapies in oncology alone. More »

Webinar Recording: Explore Hidden Cell Populations with cytoclustR

TregsviSNEShahramOur recent Webinar with Dr. Shahram Kordasti and Bioinformatician Thanos Mourikis explored cytoclustR, a new tool they developed with the Cytobank API.

Dr. Kordasti began by reviewing how he set up his experiment pipeline to best identify Treg populations, as outlined in his article featured on the cover of Blood Journal.

Thanos followed with a step-by-step tutorial on how to use cytoclustR with SpadeTreeShahramSPADE in Cytobank to distinguish and report on hidden cell populations that might otherwise go unnoticed with manual gating strategies.

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July 18, 2018  |  Announcements

Manage Experiments More Efficiently with Cytobank 6.3.1

storagedetailCytobank’s latest release introduces functionality to help you better manage your account storage and more easily clone experiment features

Improved Storage Management
You can now see how much storage space you are using, and can filter by experiment size in the inbox. Understand quickly which of your experiments may be more resource-intensive, cull unused or duplicate experiments, and keep your storage usage in check.

Improvements to cloning and sharing (learn more)
Select which components from your clonedetail-2experiments to clone. Carry over sharing permissions, compensation matrices separately from gates, panels separately from sample tags, and more. You can also choose whether to give your PI full access when you clone experiments. These features are also fully-supported in the Cytobank API.

Iterate and Refine Faster 
You can now quickly cancel SPADE, viSNE, and CITRUS runs in progress to correct mistakes or refine settings.

 

June 28, 2018  |  API, Education, SPADE, viSNE, Webinars

July Webinar:
Explore Hidden Cell Populations with cytoClustR and the Cytobank API

Best Practices for Adopting Clustering Pipelines in Place ofSPADE Tree Kordasti Manual Gating

Join us Wednesday, July 18 at 9:00 AM PDT for our next free webinar. Learn how Physician Scientist, Dr. Shahram Kordasti of King’s College London and Bioinformatician Thanos Mourikis of Cancer Research UK (CRUK) collaborated to build cytoClustR, a tool you can use with Cytobank’s machine learning algorithms to identify cell subsets in order to help make discoveries in the clinic.

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May 25, 2018  |  Education, Events, viSNE, Webinars

Webinar Recap: Advanced viSNE (t-SNE) Review

Untitled-1Nearly 500 scientists registered for our latest data analysis webinar. Cytobank Application Scientist Geoff Kraker took us on a tour of recently added features like setting the seed (for replicating results), configuring display gate labels, and more. If you missed it, not to worry. The recording is now available online.

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Following the demo, Geoff fielded many great live questions from the viewers. Here are some of our favorites: More »

April 30, 2018  |  Education, Events, viSNE, Webinars

May Webinar: New Developments in viSNE Presented by Geoff Kraker

If you missed the webinar, click here to view the recording on our YouTube Channel.

Join us for our free Webinar May 17, 2018 9:00 AM PDT/ 16:00 GMT

In our previous and popular webinars featuring viSNE, hundreds have logged on to watch as scientists showed us how they used viSNE to make discoveries in the clinic and build comprehensive data analysis pipelines for their high parameter data.

With recent improvements released on Cytobank, it’s a great time to gather and review viSNE best practices, to dive deeper into how you can now explore your data more efficiently with viSNE, and how you can extend viSNE’s capabilities by integrating with other analysis approaches, including basic analysis and more advanced machine learning algorithms.visne_display_gates More »

April 16, 2018  |  Conferences, Events, viSNE

AACR Bulletin: Don’t Miss our Booth, Key Presentations in Chicago

cytobankbooth3603If you’re at the Annual Meeting of the AACR (American Association for Cancer Research), come visit our team in person, get some hands-on help, and see the latest developments in how our cloud-based Machine Learning analysis platform can help accelerate more detailed discovery.
Meet us at Booth #3603.

Posters and Talks:

We’re excited to see the breadth and depth of presentations throughout the conference program that include work done on the Cytobank platform. In addition to our very own team’s presentation on rapid RNA-seq biomarker discovery, many others have used of Cytobank in their discoveries. See here for a sampling of posters and talks submitted to us by our users. More »

April 11, 2018  |  Announcements, Conferences, Flow Cytometry

Announcing Cytobank’s Collaboration with Cytek Biosciences

We’rCytekLogoe excited to announce a new collaboration with Cytek, makers of the innovative CytekTM Aurora Flow Cytometer. Cytek’s Aurora and Cytobank’s next-generation analytics platform have united in their goal to make high-dimensional data and its subsequent machine learning analysis more accessible to more scientists.

  • Aurora’s unique optical design combined with spectral unmixing delivers quality, high-dimensional data where rare and dim populations can be easily resolved, regardless of sample complexity.
  • Cytobank’s algorithms simplify visualization and analysis of high-dimensional unmixed data and allow you to quickly share discrete insights from these data.

Here are two specific examples of how you can apply our combined solutions to enable faster, more highly-resolved discoveries: More »