Cytobank Blog

November 12, 2018 | Announcements, Education, Flow Cytometry, FlowSOM, Webinars

Free Webinar Nov 28th:
Intro to FlowSOM in Cytobank with Sofie van Gassen

Free FlowSOM Webinar Wednesday, November 28, 2018
9:00 AM PST / 12:00 PM EST / 6:00 PM CET

FlowSOM in Cytobank is coming soon!

When it is released to all users on Cytobank later this month, the FlowSOM algorithm will speed time to analysis and quality of clustering with self-organizing maps (SOMs) that can reveal how all markers are behaving on all cells, and can detect subsets that might otherwise be missed. If you have a large study with many events per sample or many samples, FlowSOM enables you to include all your data in the analysis, instead of restrictively subsampling. Leveraging the power of the Cytobank cloud, users can scale their compute to run up to 90 million events through FlowSOM in only 3.5 hours More »

July 27, 2018 | API, Events, Flow Cytometry, Publications, SPADE, Webinars

Webinar Recording: Explore Hidden Cell Populations with cytoclustR

TregsviSNEShahram Our 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 SpadeTreeShahram SPADE in Cytobank to distinguish and report on hidden cell populations that might otherwise go unnoticed with manual gating strategies.

Check out the recording on our YouTube channel

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 of 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.

May 31, 2018 | CITRUS, Conferences, Education, Flow Cytometry

Top Trends, Presentations, and Takeaways from CYTO 2018

CYTO, the International Society for the Advancement of Cytometry (ISAC)’s annual meeting wrapped up earlier this month in the exciting city of Prague, Czech Republic. As the premier meeting for showcasing the state of the art and science of cytometry, CYTO and its members revealed no small number of exciting developments in cytometry and beyond. We’re just now getting around to sharing all we saw and heard at the meeting. Some of our favorite presentations and observations include: More »

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

Webinar Recap: Advanced viSNE (t-SNE) Review

Nearly 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.

View our latest webinars on the Cytobank YouTube channel

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

cytobankbooth3603 If 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’re excited to announce a new collaboration with Cytek, makers of the innovative Cytek^TM Aurora Flow Cy tometer. 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 »