flowPhyto is a package for the R statistical programming language It uses automated computational methods (flowClust and flowMeans) to cluster phytoplankton populations, perform aggregate statistics and create maps of phytoplankton distribution from georeferenced flow cytometry data. For more details, see Ribalet, F., Schruth, D., and Armbrust, E.V. 2011. flowPhyto: enabling automated analysis of microsccopic algae from continuous flow cytometric data. Bioinformatics 27:732-733