BMC Bioinformatics

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FuGEFlow: data model and markup language for flow cytometry

Yu Qian1, Olga Tchuvatkina3, Josef Spidlen4, Peter Wilkinson5, Maura Gasparetto4, Andrew R Jones6, Frank J Manion3, Richard H Scheuermann1,2, Rafick-Pierre Sekaly5 and Ryan R Brinkman4*

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

2 Division of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

3 Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

4 Terry Fox Laboratory, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada

5 Centre de recherché du Centre hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada

6 Department of Pre-clinical Veterinary Science, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

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BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10:184 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-184

Published: 16 June 2009

Additional files

Additional file 1:

Mapping between MIFlowCyt and FuGEFlow. Mapping between MIFlowCyt terms and FuGEFlow classes and attributes.

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Additional file 2:

Flow-OM UML model. The Flow-OM data model in UML.

MagicDraw Community edition is the recommended viewer : http://www.magicdraw.com/ webcite

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Additional file 3:

Flow-ML markup language. The Flow-ML markup language described as XML schema.

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Additional file 4:

MIFlowCyt-compliant experiment in plain English. Example of MIFlowCyt-compliant data described in plain English.

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Additional file 5:

MIFlowCyt-compliant experiment in Flow-ML. Example of MIFlowCyt-compliant data described in Flow-ML.

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Additional file 6:

MIFlowCyt-compliant gating in GatingML. Gating-ML file is referenced from the MIFlowCyt-compliant data example.

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Additional file 7:

Flow-ML data in ISA-TAB. FuGEFlowtoISATAB.xsl stylesheet transformation file creates ISA-TAB HTML representation of Flow-ML data.

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