Jamie A Lee, Josef Spidlen, Keith Boyce, Jennifer Cai, Nicholas Crosbie, Mark Dalphin, Jeff Furlong, Maura Gasparetto, Michael Goldberg, Elizabeth M Goralczyk, Bill Hyun, Kirstin Jansen, Tobias Kollmann, Megan Kong, Robert Leif, Shannon McWeeney, Thomas D Moloshok, Wayne Moore, Garry Nolan, John Nolan, Janko Nikolich-Zugich, David Parrish, Barclay Purcell, Yu Qian, Biruntha Selvaraj, Clayton Smith, Olga Tchuvatkina, Anne Wertheimer, Peter Wilkinson, Christopher Wilson, James Wood, Robert Zigon, Richard H Scheuermann, Ryan R Brinkman
A fundamental tenet of scientific research is that published results are open to independent validation and refutation. Minimum data standards aid data providers, users, and publishers by providing a specification of what is required to unambiguously interpret experimental findings. Here, we present the Minimum Information about a Flow Cytometry Experiment (MIFlowCyt) standard, stating the minimum information required to report flow cytometry (FCM) experiments. We brought together a cross-disciplinary international collaborative group of bioinformaticians, computational statisticians, software developers, instrument manufacturers, and clinical and basic research scientists to develop the standard...
October 2008: Cytometry. Part A: the Journal of the International Society for Analytical Cytology