Patent ID: 8214157

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of generating a vector of values comprising a multi-resolution characterization of flow cytometry data, the method comprising: identifying, at a server comprising a memory and a processor, flow data comprising events that describe a quantity of at least a first antibody in an individual cell, wherein the quantity is identified using flow cytometry; generating a vector of values that characterizes the flow data responsive to iteratively identifying a series of hyperplanes used to segregate the flow data into subsets, wherein at each iteration a hyperplane is independently identified based on a subset of the flow data; identifying the hyperplane responsive to determining a direction of the maximum variance of the subset of the flow data; generating a rotated subset of data responsive to rotating the co-ordinates of the subset of the flow data in the direction of the hyperplane; determining a first value of the rotated subset of the flow data; splitting the rotated subset of the flow data into two subsets of data according to the first value; storing the vector of values in the memory; and uniquely identifying the flow data based on the vector of values.