Patent ID: 7321843
Filing Date: 2008-01-22
Classification: G01N

Abstract:
1. A process for generating new flow cytometry data files with a potentially infinite number of dimensions, the data files containing events having associated information for each of a whole set of parameters evaluated, said information comprising measured data directly measured in a flow cytometer and data estimated after obtaining the measured data, comprising the steps of: a) fusing two or more separate original flow cytometry data files containing information about events measured in different aliquots of a same sample, the original data files containing in common data about one or more parameters and information about one or more different parameters; b) estimating a magnitude of the parameters and of a corresponding uncertainty measure for those parameters differing between one or more of the original data files, for each individual event contained in the fused data file, for which those variables were not directly measured in the flow cytometer and; c) reconstructing multidimensionally a new data file containing both the measured data measured in the flow cytometer for each event of the individual original data files and the estimated data for those parameters not measured in a group of events from one or more of the original data files.